National Education Grid as Knowledge Infrastructure for Education and Open Learning

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National Education Grid as Knowledge
Infrastructure for Education and Open Learning

• Proposal presented to
• National Knowledge Commission
• by K.R. Srivathsan
• director_at_iiitmk.ac.in

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About IIITM-K IT for Social Sector, Science
Technology
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IIITM-K Leader in Information Systems and
Portals

• www.iiitmk.ac.in - Institute
• www.edugrid.ac.in - Education Grid
• www.compchem.in - Computational Chemistry
• www.kissankerala.net - KISSAN - Kerala
• www.tvmcitypolice.org - Trivandrum City Police
  Portal for Community Interaction.
• www.vuatkerala.org - Virtual Univ. for Agri.
  Trade
• www.e-krishi.org - Agri. Trade Facilitation
• More to come
• ? Health, Information Security Education.

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On Technology Enhanced Learning Teaching

1. All of our educational institutions
   universities, colleges, schools to absorb
   effective use of TELT.
2. E-Content, Course Management, Digital Learning
   Resources, Scientific Databases, E-Journals and
   Publications, E-Discussion Forums, Advanced
   Computing access, multimedia, remote classrooms
   as part of colleges educational systems.
3. Instructional processes management, learning
   management, teacher support systems, continuing
   education at all levels, just-in-time and
   on-demand learning needs, virtual institutions
   formed by collaborating institutions all will
   need high tech support systems.

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A View of ICT Requirements in Education Research
Synchronous Interactive Classroom Environment
Regional Network

• Systems far too complex for most institutions to
  handle
• Establish Edugrid Centers for Communities of
  local colleges

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Education Grid Vision Opportunity

• VISION FOR NKC? Enable, Educate and Empower
  Every Citizen and Community through Knowledge.
• Quality Education to all Independent of
  Geography
• The Opportunity and the need
• Broadband fast moving in. All institutions will
  soon be over broadband SWAN, Mission-2007
• Increasing availability of open source, systems,
  open courseware and web-accessible resources
• Education Grid - one click away for any competent
  teacher, learner or institution who seeks
  knowledge empowerment.
• ? Need for servicing the complex systems and
  tremendous capacity building in institutions and
  people.

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Typical Science GridService such as
Research Database or simulation
Ack. Geoffrey Fox, Indiana U
Science Grids Bioinformatics Comp.
Chemistry Particle Physics Earth Science .
Campus orEnterprise Administrative Grid
Integrated in to the EduGridthrough web services.
Education Grid
Content Publisher Grid
Learning Management or LMS Grid
Student/Parent Community Grid
Digital Library Grid
ContinuingEducation
School of Education ? Teacher Educator Grids
Education Grid as a Grid of Grids Will NKC fund
establishing such national knowledge
infrastructure?
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NPTEL over Education Grid

• Under the National Programme on Technology
  Enhanced Learning, the IITs and IISc have
  produced pedagogically effective/useful content
  in 230 courses.
• IITs have established facilities for ongoing
  production of sophisticated content.
• Rich open e-courseware from other sources like
  the MIT-OCW, OUW-UK, many leading universities of
  the world.
• How do we deploy these content in the colleges in
  ways that enhance the quality of education?
• EDUCATION GRID supported instructional services
  will help a great deal in achieving this
  important objective.

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• Need to build Learning Resources and Processes
  that address Quality.

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Objectives of Quality Education

• To make our graduates EMPLOYABLE.
• To be PRODUCTIVE ON THE JOB and in LIFE.
• To observe REAL WORLD PROBLEMS, abstract the
  issues and apply what they have learnt and their
  innate sense to solve them.
• ? Three dimensions of
• Employable Graduates.
• ?Quality Education imparts effectively all three
  dimensions in a balanced way.

Quality Instruction needs teamwork and effective
management
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Resource Centre 3 Scientific Portals
College 2
College 1
Communication Gateway Resource Centre
College 3
National ERNET EDUSAT Services Network
Resource Centre 2 Computational Servers
Programs Coordination Centre
College n
College 4
Supports all types of open learning and classroom
learning.
Resource Centre 1 E-Learning
Learners anywhere
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Typical Grid Needs advanced technologies and
competencies (Ack. G. Fox, IU)
IIITM-K builds such grids in open framework.
Portal Services
UserServices
Re-use
Application ServiceLibraries
ApplicationCustomization
Application Service
Application Service
Middleware
SystemServices
SystemServices
SystemServices
Re-use
CoreGrid
Raw (HPC) Resources
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EXAMPLE COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY PORTAL of IIITM-K
Universities
Research Communities
Colleges
RD Labs
National/ International Collaborations
INTERNET
High-end Computer
IIT Madras Gateway LAN
Open Learning Continuing Education
IP Secure Tunnel / Web-service
Proxy User Agent
Industries
Linked Software Computational Resources
Linked Chemical / Molecular Databases
IIITM-K/Education Grid Gateway Web-server
Content LMS
Digital Library, Open Archives E-Publications
Web Services Brokering Authentication Services
Mini Computer
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Ensure TELT as Facilitation Layer as
K-Infrastructure for colleges

• Today Universities must recognize TELT as part of
  Learning Infrastructure
• Upgrade capacity of every institute / university
  college to absorb TELT and use it in their in
  house and open learning activities.

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College Students Teachers
Mentors, Referees Experts
Content Inputs, Course specific Digital Library,
Links
Course related World, Industry
Learning Instructional Excellence
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Advanced Web-Tech based Servers
Resource Institute
College 1
College n
RD

• Automated Grid concepts developed at IIITM-K.
• Get each course supported by industry for
  sustaining the above collaborative environment.

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Quality Learning Environment of Tacit-Explicit
Interplay

• At the end of a learning effort, a Learner
  should be able to say I understand ? Add to
  his/her Tacit capabilities.

Peoples Competencies, Communications, Feelings,
Intuitions, Social interactions Peoples Real
World
Codified Knowledge and Processes accessible over
the net, paper Global networked Information and
computational base
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Build Instructional Cycle into Content
(Merrills PBL Model)
2. Activation of cognitive process
1. Motivation
Next Module
3. Learning from past experience
5. Challenges
4. Application

• Need to go much beyond syllabus, classes,
  cookbooks, tests and marks

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LAUNCH GRAND THRUSTS IN SCIENTIFIC PORTALS
KNOWLEDGE SERVICES SECTORS OVER EDUGRID
RD Organizations
INDUSTRY
Govt. Organizations
SCIENTIFIC COMPUTATIONAL PORTALS
Premier Institutions K-Services
U S E R S
ACCESS INTERACTION PORTALS
Data Sources Organizations
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Example Agriculture Info Services
Etc.
APEDA
VALIDATION EDITING
MASTER AGGREGATION PORTAL
Kerala Agri. Univ.
F A R M E R S
PRESENTATION INTERACTION PORTLETS
Commodity Boards
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Peoples world Web accessed area
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FUTURE INSTITUTIONS AS KNOWLEDGE RESOURCE
LEARNING CENTERS

• Institutions to fulfil Public Responsibility
  Functions Open Education on demand.
• E-Learning and Teacher Training Resource Centers.
• To host Scientific Portals and Open Computational
  Servers.
• ? To act as KNOWLEDGE SERVICES CENTRES backed by
  Postgraduate Schools.
• Recognise and reward efforts in quality education
  and educational processes and knowledge services.

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How do we build such grand K-Infrastructure?

• Propose a referral Advanced Informatics
  Development Agency (AIDA - to be hosted at
  IIITM-K?) as the coordinating agency.
• Like the way ADA coordinates in mission mode LCA
  related developments across multiple agencies.
• AIDA may function as the hub of NKCs National
  Knowledge Mission and K-Infrastructure.
  
• There will be many advanced informatics centres
  of specialized areas in leading institutions,
  universities and RD organizations associated
  with the AIDA.

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Virtual Institute of Science, Technology and
Arts VISTA over Education Grid (promote virtual
institutions on need basis)
VISTA Programs Management,
Community Datacentres E-content, systems, college
portals, Computational Portals, etc.
AIDA/IIITM-K Education Grid to help build
service
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VISTA Virtual Campus Formal Education,
Collaborative Research and Open Learning Programs
Advanced Informatics Development Agency
Academic and Research Institutions in diverse
fields
Virtual Campus Knowledge Bus
? Such Learning Ecosystems already piloted in
IIITM-K.
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AIDA ROLE
? Different Programs launched and coordinated in
Mission Mode.
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• Gordon Moore, Education is our Achilles Heel.
• It is about time we REINVENT THE EDUCATION SYSTEM
  with FREEDOM OF THOUGHT, OPEN LEARNING, OPEN DATA
  ACCESS AND OPEN COMPUTING!
• Build the Grids of Grids Grid Computing, Grid
  Accessed Computing, Data Grid Scientific
  Portals, Information and Knowledge Sharing Grid.
• Make the Grids support KNOWLEDGE INTENSIVE
  PRODUCTS AND SERVICES.
• Involve college youth and postgraduate in
  development.
• Restore the Joy of Learning and the Dignity of
  Scholarship.

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AN OFFER OR A REQUEST ?

• IIITM-K is the most ready institute in India to
  host the AIDA operational centre.
• About to get 10 Acres in Technopark just 25
  mts. From Trivandrum Intl. Airport ready to
  host AIDA.
• Education Grid and AIDA as the mission
  coordination agency provide the best enabling
  approach for rolling NKCs plans.
• Peter Drucker Knowledge has become the key
  economic resource and the dominant - and perhaps
  even the only source of competitive advantage."
• THANK YOU

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References

• Available for download from www.edugrid.in
• Management of Refereed content generation and
  utilization in formal education.
• Future ICT Infrastructure for Education.
• Concurrent Instructional Services over NPTEL
  content for quality education in the engineering
  colleges.
• Go also to NPTEL website http//nptel.iitm.ac.in/
  

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