10 online learning resources by HRD Ministry you can use during Coronavirus lockdown

10 online learning resources by HRD Ministry you can use during Coronavirus lockdown

UGC has requested students to use their online education websites to study for free during the Coronavirus lockdown. Here are the HRD Ministry initiatives that can teach you for free!

To combat against the coronavirus outbreak, the University Grant Commission (UGC) said students and teachers in its address to take preventive measures, maintain social distancing and encouraged to utilise this time productively by engaging in online learning. There are many online education websites offering their content for free now and students who are sitting at home can make full use of this learning material.

There are several ICT initiatives of the MHRD, UGC and its Inter-University Centres (IUCs) - Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), in the form of digital platforms. These digital platforms can be accessed by the teachers, students, and researchers in Universities and Colleges for learning.

These ICT initiatives, which cover a broad range of subjects and courses, have been prepared by experts for providing an excellent learning experience to all.

Here is a list of 10 online learning websites and resource provided by the HRD Ministry to study for free during the Coronavirus lockdown:

1. SWAYAM Online Courses: SWAYAM Online Courses provides access to teaching-learning resources. These resources were earlier delivered on the SWAYAM platform. Students or learners who registered on SWAYAM (swayam.gov.in) in the January 2020 semester can continue their learning as usual.

2. UG/PG MOOCs: UG/PG MOOCs hosts learning material of the SWAYAM UG and PG ( Non-Technology ) archived courses.

3. e-PG Pathshala: e-PG Pathshala 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: Swayamprabha 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: CEC-UGC YouTube channel provides access to unlimited educational curriculum based lectures absolutely free.

7. National Digital Library: National Digital Library 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: Shodhganga 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: e-Shodh Sindhu 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: Vidwan is a database of experts which provides information about experts to peers, prospective collaborators, funding agencies policymakers and research scholar in the country. Faculty members are requested to register on the Vidwan portal to help expand the database of experts.

Source: https://www.indiatoday.in/education-today/featurephilia/story/ugc-students-teachers-utilise-time-online-learning-1660021-2020-03-26