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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
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute
Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi – 110012
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 organisation’s servers
For remote area institutions/ faculty/ students,
the e-learning contents are made available
offline on (CDs / DVDs)
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
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
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
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:
1. Online e-Learning for UG
2. Off-line e-Learning: Free Downloads - UG
Courseware
3. e-learning for Farmers
4. e-Course Content Data Management
5. Automation of Contents Refinement Process
6. System Administration
7. Reports
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)
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
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 elearning
This will eliminate the process of physical supply of
e-courses on (CDs / DVDs) by post/courier services
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
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
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 User’s community
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.
Reports
Reports useful to the user’s 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
User’s 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.
Refinement
Updation
Maintenance
and
Sustenance of e-learning
courseware contents
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
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
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
SAUs to coordinate with Education
Division of ICAR:
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For e-Courses on B.Sc.(Agriculture) : Govind Ballabh
Pant University of Agriculture & Technology,
Pantnagar
For e-courses on B.V.Sc. & A.H. : Tamil Nadu
Veterinary and Animal Sciences University, Chennai
For e-Courses on B.F.Sc. : Karnataka Veterinary,
Animal and Fisheries Sciences University, Bidar;
College of Fisheries, Mangalore
For e-Courses on B.Tech Agri. Engg. : Anand
Agricultural University, Anand
For e-Courses on B.Sc Home Science : Acharya N.G.
Ranga Agricultural University, Saifabad, Hyderabad;
College of Home Science.
For e-Courses on B.Tech. (Dairy Technology): National
Dairy Research Institute, Karnal
For e-Courses on B.Sc. (Hort.) : Dr. Y.S. Parmar
University of Horticulture & Forestry, Solan
An Overview
of
e-learning portal
Some Reports……
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
Indian Agricultural Statistics Research Institute
Library Avenue, Pusa, New Delhi – 110012