New Delhi: Mr. Arjun Singh, Union Minister of Human Resource Development (MHRD), will launch the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology on February 3, in Tirupati at the auditorium of Sri Venkateswara University.
The announcement was made by Mr. R. P. Agrawal, Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, here today.
The mission was approved by the Union Government in the first week of this month. The highlights of the components of the mission will be exhibited during the launch ceremony.
Realizing the tremendous potential of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning process, the Department of Higher Education had had conceptualized a Pilot Project namely 'SAKSHAT' - One Stop Education Portal which was launched on October 30, 2006 by the then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
Encouraged with the experience of the Pilot Project 'SAKSHAT', a web based Portal providing various services to the student community, it was decided to formulate a Centrally Sponsored Scheme by the name National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, henceforth called as 'Mission', to fully leverage the potential of ICT in teaching and learning process for the ultimate benefit of all learners in higher education sector. The interventions of Mission are to be delivered through the above said One-Stop Education Portal 'SAKSHAT'.
"The proposed mission broadly has the objective of ensuring connectivity of the learners to the 'World of Knowledge' in cyberspace and to make them 'Netizens' in order to enhance their self-learning skills and develop their capabilities for on-line problem solving and to work for : creation of knowledge modules with right contents to address to the personalized needs of learners; certification of competencies of the learners, acquired through formal or non-formal means; and to develop and maintain the database having profile of human resource, said an official release.
The Mission aims for:
(a) Building connectivity and knowledge network among and within institutions of higher learning in the country with a view to achieving critical mass of researchers in any given field;
(b) Spreading digital literacy for teacher empowerment;
(c) Development of knowledge modules having the right content to take care of the aspirations of academic community and to address the personalized needs of the learners;
(d) Standardization and quality assurance of e-contents to make them world class;
(e) Research in the field of pedagogy for development of efficient learning modules for disparate groups of learners;
(f) Making available e-knowledge contents, free of cost to Indians;
(g) Experimentation and field trial in the area of performance optimization of low cost access devices for use of ICT in education;
(h) Providing support for the creation of a Virtual Technological University;
(i) Identification and nurturing of talents;
(j) Certification of competencies of the human resources acquired either through
(k) Formal or non-formal means and the evolution of a legal framework for it; and
(l) Developing and maintaining the database with the profiles of our human resources.
Source: http://indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Arjun_Singh_to_launch_National_Mission_on_Education_on_February_3_at_Tirupati_7308/
The announcement was made by Mr. R. P. Agrawal, Secretary, Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development, here today.
The mission was approved by the Union Government in the first week of this month. The highlights of the components of the mission will be exhibited during the launch ceremony.
Realizing the tremendous potential of the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in teaching and learning process, the Department of Higher Education had had conceptualized a Pilot Project namely 'SAKSHAT' - One Stop Education Portal which was launched on October 30, 2006 by the then President of India, Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam.
Encouraged with the experience of the Pilot Project 'SAKSHAT', a web based Portal providing various services to the student community, it was decided to formulate a Centrally Sponsored Scheme by the name National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, henceforth called as 'Mission', to fully leverage the potential of ICT in teaching and learning process for the ultimate benefit of all learners in higher education sector. The interventions of Mission are to be delivered through the above said One-Stop Education Portal 'SAKSHAT'.
"The proposed mission broadly has the objective of ensuring connectivity of the learners to the 'World of Knowledge' in cyberspace and to make them 'Netizens' in order to enhance their self-learning skills and develop their capabilities for on-line problem solving and to work for : creation of knowledge modules with right contents to address to the personalized needs of learners; certification of competencies of the learners, acquired through formal or non-formal means; and to develop and maintain the database having profile of human resource, said an official release.
The Mission aims for:
(a) Building connectivity and knowledge network among and within institutions of higher learning in the country with a view to achieving critical mass of researchers in any given field;
(b) Spreading digital literacy for teacher empowerment;
(c) Development of knowledge modules having the right content to take care of the aspirations of academic community and to address the personalized needs of the learners;
(d) Standardization and quality assurance of e-contents to make them world class;
(e) Research in the field of pedagogy for development of efficient learning modules for disparate groups of learners;
(f) Making available e-knowledge contents, free of cost to Indians;
(g) Experimentation and field trial in the area of performance optimization of low cost access devices for use of ICT in education;
(h) Providing support for the creation of a Virtual Technological University;
(i) Identification and nurturing of talents;
(j) Certification of competencies of the human resources acquired either through
(k) Formal or non-formal means and the evolution of a legal framework for it; and
(l) Developing and maintaining the database with the profiles of our human resources.
Source: http://indiaedunews.net/Delhi/Arjun_Singh_to_launch_National_Mission_on_Education_on_February_3_at_Tirupati_7308/
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