Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute

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• Establishment of an
• e-learning Portal
• for
• Agricultural Education
• (e-KrishiShiksha)
• http//ecourses.iasri.res.in/
• Activity
• of the Education Division of ICAR
• Dr. R C Goyal
• Emeritus Scientist

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Background

• Under Learning and Capacity Building program of
  NAIP, several interactive multimedia UG level
  e-Course contents in different disciplines of
  agriculture have been developed at SAUs and other
  organisations
• The online contents has been implemented from the
  respective organisations servers
• For remote area institutions/ faculty/ students,
  the e-learning contents are made available
  offline on (CDs / DVDs)

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Present Requirements

• Refinement, Updation, Maintenance and Sustenance
  of e-Courses developed under NAIP
• For coordination and execution of the above,
  responsibility has been entrusted to IASRI, New
  Delhi
• Accordingly, the following programme is being
  executed

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e-learning Portal

• For Refinement, Updation, Maintenance and
  Sustenance of the e-learning courseware,
• A Centralised e-learning Portal on Agricultural
  Education that provides 24/7 services to all the
  Faculty, Teachers, Students and other learners is
  being designed and developed
• The portal has been hosted on the server of IASRI

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Specific Objectives

1. Designing, development and maintenance of
   software to establish Centralised e-learning
   Portal for Agricultural Education
2. Refinement, Updation, Maintenance and Sustenance
   of e-learning courseware contents developed under
   Learning Capacity Building program of NAIP
3. Establishment of an alternate e-learning strategy
   for remote area institutions/ faculty/ students

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Design of e-learning Portal

• The Portal is developed using 3-tier web
  technology in .Net framework environment
• The Portal has the following 7 options
• Online e-Learning for UG
• Off-line e-Learning Free Downloads - UG
  Courseware
• e-learning for Farmers
• e-Course Content Data Management
• Automation of Contents Refinement Process
• System Administration
• Reports

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Online e-Learning for UG

• Free Access as Guest User of all disciplines has
  been made available to the users community
• B.Sc (Agriculture)
• B.Sc (Horticulture)
• B.Sc (Home Science)
• BFSc (Fisheries)
• BVSc ( Veterinary A.H.)
• B.Tech. ( Dairy Technology)
• B.Tech. ( Agri. Engineering)

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Access to Online e-Learning of UG Courseware

• Accessible to all Faculty teachers, students and
  any one interested in the field of agricultural
  sciences
• For the first time, new user will have to
  register by submitting his/her brief identity
  details
• The email-Id is used for authentication of the
  Registered users
• Portal usage records has been maintained in the
  system

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Off-line e-Learning Free Downloads UG
Courseware

• Under NAIP programmes for remote area
  institutions/ faculty/ students, the e-learning
  contents were made available offline on (CDs /
  DVDs)
• In present portal, e-learning courseware contents
  are made available as Free Downloadable component
  
• The downloaded file content folder could be
  independently executed from desk top and used for
  teaching/learning exactly in the same manner as
  the existing CDs/DVDs contents can be used for
  offline e-learning
• This will eliminate the process of physical
  supply of e-courses on (CDs / DVDs) by
  post/courier services

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e-learning for Farmers

• Linkage of Farmers/Women level short
• e-training material under different disciplines
  may be made available
• Some of the SAUs under extension programmes have
  already created farmers level e-contents for
  short term training programmes on agriculture,
  horticulture, fisheries etc.
• Attempt will be made to collect, compile and made
  available through this portal

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e-Course Content Data Management

• The Data Management sub-module option is being
  designed to provide access to the Content
  Creation Team for refinement and updation of the
  e-courses
• The Activity involved in coordinating for
  refinement and updation of the e-courseware by
  the universities/ institutes identified for the
  same are as follows
• Liaison with Nodal Officers of universities/
  institutes identified to coordinate for
  refinement and updation
• Linkage/access to the Nodal Officers, Expert
  Review Team and Content Creators of each
  university/institute for uploading the
  e-courseware to Central Server after refinement
  and updating

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Automation of Contents Refinement Process

• For refinement and updating of e-courses by
  concerned team members, a process will be
  designed, developed and established for
  periodical online monitoring
• The process may be established in consultation
  with concerned Nodal Officer Discipline Experts
• The operational flow of periodic monitoring
  process may be as follows
• Online submission of refined e-courses by PI of
  the content creators team of the e-courses
• Reporting remarks by the Nodal Officers of the
  concerned discipline
• Review remarks by the concerned Review Experts
  Team
• Feedback of Users community

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System Administration

• Generation of UserId and Passwords for Faculty
  and Reporting/Reviewing team involved in content
  creation/updation of different courses
• Adding/deleting/modifying accounts information
• Resetting passwords, etc
• Briefly the following options may be made
  available
• Creation of new users with different access
  rights
• Resetting user passwords
• Lock /unlock user accounts
• Defining levels for process of refinement and
  updating
• Monitor special services etc.

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Reports

• Reports useful to the users as well as
  administrators /managers has been designed and
  made available on the portal.
• This includes
• e-courses available under different and/or
  selected discipline(s)
• Degree-wise Courses Downloads
• Users registered for offline e-Courses downloads
• University wise courses download status
• System utilization statistics at different point
  of times
• Most popular courses among users
• Utilization Trend over the years etc
• Content creators / evaluators /review team etc.

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• Refinement
• Updation
• Maintenance
• and
• Sustenance of e-learning courseware contents

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Activities for Refinement

• Major activities to be undertaken at the
  concerned SAUs/organization level
• Identification of concerned discipline Expert
  Faculty Group
• Outlining of course expectations, concerns and
  challenges by Expert Faculty Group
• Determination of the gap in course contents
• Knowledge and skills requirement
• Fixing of proposed contents for refinement
• Adoption of online refinement process

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Activities for Updation

• For updation, major activities to be undertaken
  at the concerned SAUs/ organization level would
  be the following
• Identification of the e-course content creator
  team (original content creators and additions
  and/or deletion, if any) for content revision,
  updation and uploading
• Fixing of some time frame for updation and
  uploading
• Updating of the e-course contents as per
  suggestions emerged from the refinement group
• Uploading of the revised e-course contents to the
  Centralised e-learning Portal

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Activities for Maintenance and Sustenance

• Software Maintenance
• For sustenance, popularization and effective
  utilization of the system, awareness meetings/
  sensitization workshops will be organized by the
  Education Division of ICAR in collaboration with
  the SAUs and Institutes identified to coordinate

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SAUs to coordinate with Education Division of
ICAR

1. For e-Courses on B.Sc.(Agriculture) Govind
   Ballabh Pant University of Agriculture
   Technology, Pantnagar
2. For e-courses on B.V.Sc. A.H. Tamil Nadu
   Veterinary and Animal Sciences University,
   Chennai
3. For e-Courses on B.F.Sc. Karnataka Veterinary,
   Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar
   College of Fisheries, Mangalore
4. For e-Courses on B.Tech Agri. Engg. Anand
   Agricultural University, Anand
5. For e-Courses on B.Sc Home Science Acharya N.G.
   Ranga Agricultural University, Saifabad,
   Hyderabad College of Home Science.
6. For e-Courses on B.Tech. (Dairy Technology)
   National Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
7. For e-Courses on B.Sc. (Hort.) Dr. Y.S. Parmar
   University of Horticulture Forestry, Solan

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• An Overview
• of
• e-learning portal

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Some Reports
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Thanks