Bharat Padhe Online

Context: Recently, the Minister of Human Resource Development launched a week long 'Bharat Padhe Online' campaign.

About Bharat Padhe Online campaign

• It is aimed at crowd sourcing of ideas for improving online education ecosystem of India.
• The campaign provides a platform for all the best brains in India to share suggestions/solutions directly with HRD Ministry to overcome constraints of online education while promoting the available digital education platforms.
• The target audience of this campaign would be the students and teachers.
• Ideas can be shared on twitter by using #BharatPadheOnline and on the Ministry's website.

SHAGUN Online Junction

• SHAGUN is an online junction under which the Department of School Education in the Government of India and all States and Union Territories (UTs) have launched several e-learning platforms.
• ‘Shagun’ is coined from two different words i.e. ‘Shala’, meaning Schools and ‘Gunvatta’ meaning Quality. The primary aim of the SHAGUN initiative is to facilitate both teachers and students with a platform where they can interact, however through digital medium for further learning.

There are three e-learning platforms which comes under the purview of SHAGUN:

• NREOE
• DIKSHA
• e-Pathshala

National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER)

• It is one of an excellent initiative launched by the Ministry of HRD with approximately 16000 registered users, and 14527 e-leanring resources. Students visiting NROR platform will get an exposure to e-libraries, e-books, e-courses, chance to participate in events online, and theme based education.
• Apart from this, students can access the website in both Hindi and English language.
• In fact, there is a feature through which learning of students can be out to test through ‘assignments’ also.

DIKSHA Portal

• The Ministry of HRD has launched National Digital Infrastructure for Teachers (DIKSHA) portal to equip teachers from 1st class to 12th class into the world of e-learning. The platform is available for both teachers and students requiring learning material.
• DIKSHA is one of a unique app that requires students and teachers to SCAN the QR code available in the book in order to access the prescribed learning material.
• With more than 80000 e-Books solely created to train and enhance the learning of Class 12th students, the aim of CBSE, NCERT and States or Union Territories is to ensure that the students do not miss out on learning in case they miss out on physical classroom learning.
• The portal is available in multiple languages for students.  

e-Pathshala

• Through this web-portal, students from class 1st to 12th will be able to access no less than 1886 audios, 2000 videos, 696 e-books (e-Pubs) and 504 Flip Books. The digital repository has been made available by NCERT to make sure that the students do not miss out on any important concept to be taught in the class.
• e-Pathshala is also available in several language like the other digital platforms.

Swayam Prabha

• Swayam Prabha is a collection of 32 DTH channels which run 24×7 for the students. Everyday new content of atleast 4 hours duration is floated on the website which runs 5 times in a day. Top education bodies of the nation such as NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS provide content to INFLIBNET Centre which runs these channels.

National Academic Depository (NAD) run by UGC that has tie up with approximately 55 school boards, 359 state universities, 123 deemed universities, 47 central universities and 260 private universities.

• National Digital Library of India run by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) to provide content to not just school students but also students pursuing higher education and Ph.D. level education.
• Virtual Labs is another key initiative of MHRD and GoI under the mentorship of NMEICT. It is a consortium of 12 IITs which aim to disburser online classes and study resource through Virtual labs wherein 700+ virtual experiments are designed and promoted for the aspirants to study and understand.