ICT and Educational Technology in National Educational Policy 2020

ICT in NEP 2020

1. Technology Use and Integration & Online and Digital Education: Ensuring Equitable Use of Technology National Education Policy (NEP) - 2020

2. Education Policy 1986 The Education Policy of 1986 focused on expanding access to education, improving quality, and promoting a national system of education. While it did acknowledge the potential of ICT in education, its emphasis was more on traditional methods of instruction and curriculum development. The policy recognized the importance of educational technology but did not outline specific strategies for its integration into the education system. It primarily emphasized the use of technology in teacher training and administration rather than in instructional practices.

3. Program of Action 1992 The Program of Action 1992 was a follow-up document to the Education Policy of 1986, aimed at implementing its recommendations. It emphasized the use of educational technology for improving the quality of education and enhancing teacher effectiveness. Similar to the Education Policy of 1986, the Program of Action acknowledged the potential of ICT in education but did not provide detailed guidelines for its integration. It highlighted the importance of creating audio-visual materials, computer-aided instruction, and educational television programs to support teaching and learning.

4. ICT@School Scheme Set up process to enhance an ICT knowledgeable resources. Create a workforce of ICT expert teachers and students who can deploy and utilize the features of ICT and contribute to society and nation building. Create an environment of collaboration, cooperation and sharing, conducive to the creation of a demand for optional utilization of and optimum returns on the potential of ICT in education. Develop a repository of ICT and ICT enabled tools as well as resources which should be available to all the students and teachers.

5. ICT@School Scheme Promote development of local quality center to enable qualified students and teachers to participate in the development and use of digital resources. Create pool of teachers and schools to enable resource sharing and training of teachers, as well as counseling and academic support to students. Strive for continuous improvement in ICT tools and ICT-enabled practices through research and experiment to fully extract the potential of ICT in school education. Motivate the society and also facilitate them to participate in the education process through appropriate use of ICT.

6. ICT@School Scheme National ICT Curriculum 2013 2 years Diploma in ICT in Education for teachers 3years Diploma in ICT in Education for students

7. 23 - Technology Use and Integration India is a global leader in ICT and in other cutting-edge domains, such as space. Digital India Campaign is helping to transform the entire nation into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. Educational technology will play an important role in the improvement of educational processes and outcomes. National Educational Policy 2020 Relationship between technology and education at all levels is bi- directional. Extensive use of technology in teaching and learning, removing language barriers, increasing access for Divyang students, and educational planning and management.

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9. 23 - Technology Use and Integration NDEAR stands for National Digital Education Architecture with a vision to create a ‘unified national digital infrastructure to energize and catalyze the education ecosystem’. Recommendations of NEP-2020 Essentially, this is a technological framework that aims to enable existing systems to upgrade and become interoperable, while making available, the common building blocks and services for the creation of new tools and solutions. It is through these common building and services that NDEAR aims to energize and catalyze the digital education ecosystem. with the properties of self-organization, scalability and sustainability’. It is a ‘distributed, adaptive and open socio-technical system with the properties of self-organization, scalability and sustainability’.

10. NETF shall play multiple key roles in the Education Ecosystem  Advisor on all key issues aligned with NEP mandate;   A Think Tank, advising the government (centre and states) on the use of emerging technologies in realizing the aspirations of people and NEP2020  Facilitator in the actual planning and implementation of NEP objectives  Owner of Core Building Blocks/Modules of NDEAR and education digital infrastructure & responsible for their adoption and entire lifecycle management  Owner of Operations & Maintenance activities of existing initiatives within Umbrella Schemes in Education like NMEICT and DIKSHA

11. Major Initiatives National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR: https:// www.ndear.gov.in / Architecture with a vision to create “Unifying national digital infrastructure to energise and catalyse the education ecosystem”. Essentially, this is a technological framework that aims to enable existing systems to upgrade and become interoperable, while making available, the building blocks for the creation of new tools and solutions. NDEAR aims to energise and catalyse the digital education ecosystem to create and deliver diverse, relevant, contextual, innovative solutions that benefit students, teachers, parents, communities, administrators resulting in timely implementation of policy goals.

12. One Nation One Data ONOD Initiative represents the underlying initiative in easing data discovery process for education and skilling delivery institutions. https:// onod.aicte-india.org / The ONOD Portal shall serve as the access point for unified education data architecture assimilating AICTE, NBA, NAAC, NIRF, and School databases etc. This shall aid in accessing real-time credible data on the status of educational institutes preventing fraudulent practices. The portal shall also share required user-consented information to different agencies/entities by utilizing 2-way Open APIs. The technology enabled-path would make the assessment and accreditation processes sound and reliable while eliminating redundancy.

13. NEAT Portal National Educational Alliance for Technology (NEAT) is an initiative comprising of an umbrella of activities aimed at bringing EdTech companies’ products of online learning content and courses to students/youth of the country for enhancing their employability skills and prospective students onto the same platform. The ultimate aim of NEAT is to bridge student learning gaps and providing personalized learning experiences. https://neatphase2eoi.aicte-india.org/

14. NEAT Portal NEAT has been providing free course coupons / seats (25% of the sale) to students of economically and socially weaker sections of society. https:// neat.aicte-india.org / NEAT is also promoting Indian EdTech Companies with the mission of “ Aatmanirbhar Bharat” and playing an enabling role for enhancing collaboration between EdTech Companies and Academic Institutions in order to bridge the gap between academic learning, upskilling initiatives and industry needs. The latest NEAT evaluation has geared its focus on vocational skilling, upskilling and reskilling in emerging technologies such as AI/ML & Domains of national importance such as Quantum Computing, 5G and semiconductor technologies.

15. Student and Teacher Registry The Education Ecosystem Registry (EER) initiative shall enable a decentralized, comprehensive federated registry of all education and skilling related data using Unique Student ID (based on Aadhaar) as the federated and verifiable identity of the user; and further developing EER Open APIs that establish data sharing linkages between previously standalone education and skilling platforms and databases. EER shall enable federated, de-centralized hosting of student and teacher registry with common minimum data fields shared through EER 2 way Open APIs, with other compatible, interoperable & standardized registries; with due user consent for data sharing in adherence to In DEA2.0 & NDEAR architecture.

16. Student and Teacher Registry EER Open APIs shall uniquely identify and transmit student data amongst federated registries using unique Student ID, Aadhaar enabled SSO User Authentication and Digilocker (NAD + ABC) API Integration. When a student moving from one organization from other, basic information of student will get transferred. Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) anonymized data stream through EER APIs shall be done to enable high level analytics, dashboard reporting to support policy decision making.

17. Anuvadini (AI Text & Voice Translation Tool) India has a rich & diverse lingual demographic, with 80% of the population identifying themselves as Non-English, Native Language speakers. A significant outcome of this regional diversity is the challenge in delivering standardized and high quality educational content in a manner that is comprehensible to students with diverse regional languages being spoken. Further, there are multiple higher education hotspots in the country such as Central Universities, IITs, and NITs etc. These institutions groom students coming from rich diverse cultural backgrounds; existing barriers to communication owing to distinct languages spoken eventually constrains the extent of collaboration and innovation that students can be capable of. Similarly scope for cross country collaboration in research is constrained due to language. https:// anuvadini.aicte-india.org /

18. Anuvadini (AI Text & Voice Translation Tool) In this regard, having support for 22 regional Indian & foreign languages, ANUVADINI - AICTE Text & Voice Translation Tool can help break language barriers & unify India and the World under the principles of Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat and One Earth, One Family, One Future! Core Functionalities of Anuvadini are numerous with a plethora of potential use cases. The main functionalities are: - Text to Text Translation, Speech to Speech Translation, Video Translation, Multilingual Forms with Voice Capability, Chat GPT Integration, Multilingual Online Tutorials Module.

19. The AICTE Speech Messenger can help allow students to comfortably communicate in their preferred language while ensuring seamless and effective communication. https:// voice.aicte-india.org / Anuvadini (AI Text & Voice Translation Tool) This retains and celebrates the country’s diversity in language while ensuring that students can communicate easily during their academic journeys. The Speech Messenger allows multiple use cases wherein universities across the country may have chat groups dedicated to specific disciplines or research fields which promises to fillip sharing of ideas, debate, collaboration and innovation.

20. Document Translation Tool AICTE Document Translation Tool has already exhibited its usefulness and unmatched ability to preserve look & feel and formatting of textbook while accurately translate only textual content while preserving a document’s structure with tables, photos, diagrams etc. This has allowed students from across the country to access educational content and coursework of their choice in the regional language of their preference and helped regional academic institutions to deliver UG and Diploma courses in regional languages. https:// translation.aicte-india.org /

21. Digital University The Digital University Initiative seeks to implement NEP vision of internationalization and will provide access to students across the country for world-class quality universal education with personalized learning experience at their doorsteps. This will be made available in different Indian languages and ICT formats. The University will be built on a networked hub-spoke model, with the hub building cutting edge ICT expertise. The best public universities and institutions in the country will collaborate as a network of hub-spokes.

22. National Internship Portal The AICTE National Internship Portal serves as a marketplace for bringing valuable, industry linked, paid, fulltime or part time internship opportunities to more than 1.7 Crore students across the country with valuable professional experience and internship completion certificates. The portal is a one stop solution for internship opportunities in the Government sector like MoHUA , NHAI, Railways, MoSJE as well as MSMEs, Corporates Sector, NGOs, Start-ups, and Research organizations. It is envisioned to reach a target of 1 crore internships by 2025. https:// internship.aicte-india.org /

23. National Apprenticeship Training Scheme 2.0 Portal The National Apprenticeship Training Scheme (NATS) is a flagship programme for skilling Indian youth and is designed to equip technically qualified youth with hands on, industry related, practical knowledge and skills by bringing together Industry, Educational Institutions and Students. The NATS Portal has been developed by AICTE for the Ministry of Education and has over 9,000 industry active establishments; 11,000 active educational institutions and around 6,00,000 students registered till date. https:// portal.mhrdnats.gov.in /boat/login/ user_login.action

24. National Academic Depository The National Academic Depository aims at ensuring a credible and convenient mechanism for online lodging, verification and authentication of the academic awards issued by various educational institutions. Maintaining academic awards in an electronic depository would provide benefit to educational institutions, students and employers by enabling online access of academic awards which will eliminate the need for persons to approach educational institutions for obtaining transcripts of such awards or marks-sheets for verification. It also seeks to eliminate fraudulent practices such as forging of certificates and mark-sheets, by facilitating online verifications thereof. https:// www.nad.gov.in / index.html

25. DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) DIKSHA (Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) is a national platform for school education, an initiative of NCERT, under the aegis of the MoE https:// diksha.gov.in /

26. SWAYAM Portal Study Web of Active Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM) The national coordinators of SWAYAM are AICTE, CEC, NCERT, IGNOU, NIOS, NITTR, IIMB, NPTEL, UGC. https:// swayam.gov.in /

27. Sandbox Environment Integrate and validate your software systems by partnering with the NETF APIs.

28. T h r u s t o f t e c hn o l og i c al i n t e r v e n t i o n s Teaching- learning and evaluation processes Supporting teacher preparation & professional development Enhancing educational access Removing language barriers Streamlining educational management and administration A cc ess t o D i vy a n g students 23 - Technology Use and Integration

29. Disruptive technology- Artificial Intelligence (AI) 3D/7D Virtual Reality - has emerged Extensive research is needed in New technologies (involving a r ti f ici a l i n t e lli g e n c e , m a c h i n e l e a r n i n g, b l oc k c ha i n s , s ma r t b o a r d s , han d h e l d c omp u ti n g devices, adaptive c om p u t e r t e s ti n g an d ot h e r f or m s o f e d u c a ti on a l software and hardware) Before scaling up interventions, the use and integration of technology to improve multiple aspects of education should be rigorously and transparently evaluated in relevant contexts 23 - Technology Use and Integration T h r u s t o f t e c hn o l og i c al i n t e r v e n t i o n s

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32. Role of HEIs 23 - Technology Use and Integration H E I s w il l c o n d u c t t a r g e t ed t r a i n i ng fo r j o b r ea d i n e s s a nd a dd r e s s s k i ll i n g , d e s k i ll i ng a nd s c a li n g k e e p i ng i n v i e w the disruptive technologies Universities will aim to offer Ph.D. and Masters programmes in core areas such as Machine Learning as well as multidisciplinary f i e l d s “ A I + X ” an d professional areas like health care, agriculture, and law Play an active role in c o ndu c t i ng research on disrutial versions of instructional materials courses including online course and assessing their impact on specific areas

33. NEP 2020 recognises the importance of Leveraging the advantages of technology while acknowledging the potential risks and dangers Carefully designed and appropriately scaled pilot studies to determine the benefits of digital/ online education Optimising and expanding the existing digital platforms and ongoing ICT-based educational initiatives to meet the current needs and future challenges Using technology for online and digital education adequately to address concerns of equity 24 - Online and Digital Education: Ensuring Equitable Use of Technology

34. Di g i t a l com p e t e n c i e s of t e ac h e r s t o m e e t further need Limitation in delivering certain types of courses/ subjects in online/ digital space O n li n e a s s e s s m e n t on scale B e comi n g s cr e en ba s e d e d u c a t i on Unavailability of open and public digital resources infrastructure B ri dgi n g Digi t al divide Online and D i g i t al E d u c a t i o n : Challenges 24 - Online and Digital Education: Ensuring Equitable Use of Technology

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