E-Learning Portal. Reference Manual Call-2

Abstract

Education Division undertakes planning, development, coordination and quality assurance of higher agricultural education in the country, and thus, strives for maintaining and upgrading quality and its relevance. E-Learning plays a key role in delivering the quality education in scalable and flexible manner. It is a learning system based on formalized teaching with the help of electronic resources. It is one of the most engaging ways to study today. Since the learning is conducted online, students can study at their own pace and sometimes in their own time. It allows the teachers to reach out to a larger audience of students as compared to the traditional classroom where the number of students is restricted. Thus, a large number of learners have access to learning. Several UG level e-Courseware contents were developed in seven disciplines (viz. Agricultural Science;Fisheries Science; Dairy Science; Veterinary & Animal Husbandry; Horticulture; Home Science andAgricultural Engineering). These were developed through partnerships and efforts of the components of the ICAR-Agricultural Universities (AUs) System comprising State Agricultural Universities (SAUs), deemed to be universities (DUs), Central Agricultural University (CAU) and Central Universities (CUs) with Agriculture Faculty at SAUs and other organizations under “National agricultural innovation Project”. E-Learning portal under NAHEP, Indian Council of Agricultural Research provides 24x7 services for online access to all the teachers, students and learners in the field of agricultural education. The courses then created under NAIP will be upgraded as per Fifth Dean Committee report and some new UG courses will be created under the light of NAHEP project funded by the World Bank.