About Digital Learning Cell
The technology of online education and all the digital revolution have the possibility to revolutionize higher education scenario in the near future and it is bringing in sweeping changes in the Higher Education landscape. A Large scale expansion of the knowledge & high quality education opportunities and reaching the unreached is the need of the hour. In this regard, Central University of Jammu has taken several digital initiatives to support the Govt of India's NATIONAL MISSION ON EDUCATION through ICT and other innovative digital initiatives.
The government of India proposed that every University should have a Digital Learning Cell which reviews the current use of these digital resources and suggests way to improving their utilization further in the university and the affiliated institutions.
The Central University of Jammu constituted Digital Learning Cell on 29TH October,2018 vide a notification no CUJ/Admin/5-29(var comm.)/2018/939 for promotion and implementation of technology driven digital initiatives for providing wider access to the students with ultimate purpose of ensuring quality and excellence in various domains of higher education. The Digital Learning Cell (DLC) of Central University of Jammu , as a committed and competent team, has taken the challenge of exploring all possible opportunities to optimize the available resources and facilities for digital initiatives. Over the period of time, its role has been expanded to absorb new paradigms of e-learning, training of faculty to develop their own e-content and to use e-content developed by various national coordinators of SWAYAM, training of faculty from other institutes to facilitate streaming of video and web based lectures in their respective institutes.
Purpose and Objectives
- To organize workshops and seminars to facilitate capacity building and professional development of teachers.
- To enable faculty members to design and develop online courses (MOOCs) and blended learning courses.
- To help faculty members in higher education use learner and learning-centered pedagogy suitable to higher education.
- To develop learning material under Open Education Resources (OER) in the form of Interactive Multimedia.
- To help faculty in capacity building for curriculum transactions and scientific assessment and evaluation.
- To create the climate of initiatives for developing Interactive multimedia for supporting teaching-learning process.
- To provide assistance and support for promoting best practices in teaching learning environment through research and dissemination of already generated knowledge.
Members
| S.No. | Designation | Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Convener | Dr. J N Baliya | jnbaliya2000@yahoo.co.in |
| 2. | Member | Dr. Amit Gangotia | amitgangotia@gmail.com |
| 3. | Member | Dr. Raj Thakur | thakurraj.13@gmail.com |
| 4. | Member | Dr. Deepti Malhotra | deepti433@yahoo.com |
| 5. | Member | Dr. Vishal Singh | logon2vishu@gmail.com |
| 6. | Member | Dr. Suram Singh | suramsingh@gmail.com |
| 7. | Member | Dr. Sanjay Kumar | sanjaykmath@gmail.com |
| 8. | Member | Dr. Ritu Bakshi | ritu_raj1995@yahoo.com |
| 9. | Member Secretary | Ms.Anjali Pathania | anjalipathania88@gmail.com |
Online Learning Resources (Annexure A)
Dear Students and Fellow Colleagues
THE Covid-19 pandemic has pushed schools, higher education institutions (HEIs) and training providers online to ensure that effective learning continues. While technology can facilitate seamless migration of face-to-face learning to a virtual platform, accessibility to quality digital content is crucial and vital. As we jointly combat COVID 19 by taking preventive and precautionary measures, maintaining social distancing and staying in the confines of our homes/hostels, we can utilize this time productively by engaging in On-line learning. There are several ICT initiatives of the Ministry of Education (Shiksha Mantralaya), UGC and its Inter University Centres (IUCs) - Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) and Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), in the form of digital platforms which can be accessed by the teachers, students and researchers in Universities and Colleges for broadening their horizon of learning. Following are the list of some of the ICT initiatives along with their access links:
- Swayam On-line Courses:
Swayam provides access to best teaching learning resources which were earlier delivered on the SWAYAM Platform may now be viewed by any learner free of cost without any registration.
SWAYAM Online Courses: Click here - UG / PG MOOCs
UG / PG MOOCS hosts learning materials of the SWAYAM UG and PG (Non- Technology) archived courses.
UG/PG UGC-MOOCs: Click here
A few other MOOCs providers are given below for your reference:
- NPTEL
- EdX
- Saylor
- Coursera
- Harvard
- Academic earth
- University of the People
- Open Yale Courses
- Class central
- Future Learn
- e - PG Pathshala:
e-PG Pathshala hosts high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content containing 23,000 modules (e-text and video) in 70 Post Graduate disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences. Any person can take the best advantage of the recourses by clicking on following link
e-PG Pathshala: Click here - e-Content courseware in UG subjects:
e-Contents in 87 undergraduate courses with about 24,110 e-content modules are available in the CEC website through the link given below :
e-Content Courseware in UG Subjects: Click here
A few other courseware links are given below for your reference:- MIT Courseware1
- MIT Courseware2
- MIT Courseware3
- Swayamprabha- A Repository of 32 DTH channels:
Swayamprabha is a group of 32 DTH channels providing high quality educational curriculum based course contents covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities subjects, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture etc. to all teachers, students and citizens across the country interested in lifelong learning. These channels are free to air and can also be accessed through your cable operator. The telecasted videos/lectures are also archived in the Swayamprabha portal.
SWAYAM PRABHA: Click here - CEC - UGC Youtube channel:
The CEC - UGC YouTube channel provides access to unlimited educational curriculum based lectures absolutely free.
CEC UGC YouTube Channel: Click here - e-ShodhSindhu: Consortium for Higher Education Electronic Resources: Click here
- CEC - UGC Youtube channel:
The CEC - UGC YouTube channel provides access to unlimited educational curriculum based lectures absolutely free.
CEC UGC YouTube Channel: Click here - Vidwan :
VIDWAN is the premier database of profiles of scientists / researchers and other faculty members working at leading academic institutions and other R & D organisation involved in teaching and research in India. It provides important information about expert's background, contact address, experience, scholarly publications, skills and accomplishments, researcher identity, etc.
Vidwan : Click here
Members
| S.No. | Designation | Name | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | Convener | Dr. J N Baliya | jnbaliya2000@yahoo.co.in |