Covid-19: Online Learning Resources for University Students

The Ministry of Human Resources
Development and University Grants Commission have launched several online
initiatives through informaton communications technology (ICT) to enable university
students to learn online during the lockdown and isolation period in times of
Covid-19 outbreak.
Information and Library Network
(INFLIBNET) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), in the form of
digital platforms which can be accessed by the teachers, students and
researchers in Universities and Colleges for broadening their horizon of
learning. Following is the list of some of the ICT initiatives along with their
access links:
Portals for learning:-
1.SWAYAM On-line Courses: https://storage.googleapis.com/uniquecourses/online.html provides access to best teaching learning resources which were
earlier delivered on the SWAYAM Platform may be now viewed by any learner free
of cost without any registration. Students/learners who registered on SWAYAM
(swayam.gov.in) in the January 2020 semester can continue their learning as
usual.
2.UG/PG MOOCs:
http://ugcmoocs.inflibnet.ac.in/ugcmoocs/moocs_courses.php hosts learning
material of the SWAYAM UG and PG ( Non-Technology ) archived courses.
3.e-PG Pathshala
epgp.inflibnet.ac.in hosts high quality, curriculum-based, interactive
e-content containing 23,000 modules (
e-text and video) in 70 Post Graduate disciplines of social sciences, arts,
fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences.
4.e-Content courseware in UG
subjects : e-content courseware in 87 Undergraduate courses with about 24,110
e-content modules is available on the
CEC website at http://cec.nic.in/
5.SWAYAMPRABHA:
https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/ is a
group of 32 DTH channels providing high
quality educational curriculum based course contents covering diverse
disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences
and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture
etc to all teachers, students and
citizens across the country interested in lifelong learning. These channels are
free to air and can also be accessed through your cable operator. The
telecasted videos/lectures are also as archived videos on the Swayamprabha
portal.
6.CEC-UGC YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/user/cecedusat provides access to unlimited educational
curriculum based lectures absolutely free.
7.National Digital Library:
https://ndl.iitkgp.ac.in/ is a digital repository of a vast amount of academic
content in different formats and provides interface support for leading Indian
languages for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners,
all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled
learners.
8.Shodhganga :
https://shodhganga.inflibnet.ac.in/ is a
digital repository platform of 2,60,000
Indian Electronic Theses and Dissertations for research students to
deposit their Ph.D. theses and make it available to the entire scholarly
community in open access.
9.e-Shodh Sindhu
https://ess.inflibnet.ac.in/ provides
current as well as archival access to more than 15,000 core and
peer-reviewed journals and a number of bibliographic, citation and factual
databases in different disciplines from a large number of publishers and
aggregators to its member institutions including centrally-funded technical
institutions, universities and colleges that are covered under 12(B) and 2(f)
Sections of the UGC Act.
10.Vidwan :
https://vidwan.inflibnet.ac.in/ is a
database of experts which provides information about experts to peers,
prospective collaborators, funding agencies policy makers and research scholar
in the country. Faculty members are requested to register on the Vidwan portal
to help expand the database of experts.
It is hoped, that these ICT
initiatives, which cover a broad range of subjects and courses and have been
prepared by experts, will provide an excellent learning experience to all.
For any queries or clarifications
UGC, INFLIBNET and CEC may be contacted at eresource.ugc@gmail.com,
eresource.inflibnet@gmail.com and eresource.cec@gmail.com respectively.
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