5.13 GOVERNMENT INITIATIVE FOR TECHNOLOGY ENABLED LEARNING

PTEL, gives E-learning through online Web and Video courses on engineering, science and humanities streams. The mission of NPTEL is to upgrade the nature of engineering instruction through free online courseware in India.

Following are some government initiatives for technology-enabled learning:

• The purpose of Virtual Labs is to give remote-access to labs in different courses of science and engineering. These Virtual Labs are for undergraduates, post graduate students, and research scholars. 
• Spoken Tutorial is the activity of ‘Converse with a Teacher' of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), launched by the Ministry of Human Resources and Development, Government of India. This project is run by IIT Mumbai .
• E-Yantra is an activity to introduce robotics in building instruction with the target of drawing in understudies and instructors through energizing hands-on utilization of math, software engineering and designing standards. 
• UGC’s Infonet Digital Library Consortium was launched in December, 2003 by Honourable Dr A P J Abdul Kalam, then President of India, in the wake of giving the Internet network to colleges in the year 2003, under the UGC-Infonet program. 
• Venture Open Source Courseware Animations Repository (OSCAR) presents an archive of electronic intelligent movements.  These learning modules traverse themes in science and mathematics at school level. Students and educators can view, run and download these learning modules. 
• E-Kalpa is an initiative for making digital-learning environment for design supported by the Ministry of Human Resources, Government of India, as a component of the National Mission in Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT). 
• Virtual Learning Environment (VLE), is an online domain of e-assets, obliging few controls taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level. It is an activity of Institute of Life-Long Learning, University of Delhi, drawing from a few fruitful models, the multi-media intuitive substance stacked on Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) are classified order astute. 

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