e-Classes and e-Books

The Ministry of HRD planning  to impart education through e-Classes and e-books for the college students. Under National Mission on Education ,about 93,000 e-Books available  for the college students  through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT) Programme. Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM) is likely to begin around August, 2016 and it shall make available ‘On Line Courses’ called ‘MOOCs’ for students from class 9 to 12, Under Graduate and Post Graduate classes in all the disciplines.

Under the “Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in Schools”, component of the centrally sponsored scheme Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA), ICT enabled teaching and learning is supported in Government and Government aided Secondary and Higher Secondary schools.

Keeping pace with the Digital India initiative, a web-site called “e-Pathshala”, has been developed by NCERT to disseminate all the NCERT textbooks, audio, video, images, interactive objects etc. The digital contents including e-books from Class I-XII are available on e-Pathshala, National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) and NCERT websites. The digital contents are available in English, Hindi, Urdu and Sanskrit.