New Delhi: The e-Pathshala programme of the government is expected to commence shortly with UGC asking universities across the country to contribute to the exercise. The programme proposes to create quality content across disciplines at the post-graduate degree level.
As per sources, HRD Ministry has given its approval for the scheme in the year 2011. The scheme proposes to develop e-content in 77 subjects across disciplines, and the material will be made available to both teachers and students in the form of open online courses. In addition, sources also informed that HRD ministry, under its national mission on education through ICT, sanctioned the grant-in-aid to UGC for the production of the e-content in subjects at postgraduate level.
In a letter to the vice chancellors seeking contribution from academic experts, the UGC chairman Ved Prakash, has said that it hardly need to be mention that such a gigantic mission could be accomplished only through a participatory exercise. Moreover, the subjects on which content are proposed to be developed covers a wide range of subjects ranging from adult education and women studies, architecture and bio-informatics to nano-science and nano-technology, geology and genetics.
