Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP) has adopted various digital technologies from it's inception to support teaching and learning. The university provides access to digital resources in various ways to the facutly, researchers and students to support e-learning.
Under MOOCs Prakosht of CUHP various courses are being offered on SWAYAM Platform and EPGPathshala from various departments of the university on topics like Marketing management, sustainable enterprises, Some departments are in the process of developing MOOCs and these will be shortly made available on these platforms.
Read MoreILMS is a service offered by the Information and Library Network Centre (An IUC of UGC) to the institutions of higher education across the country. It provides pre-populated learning content, derived from e-PG Pathshala: A Gateway to PG Courses, as per the prevailing guidelines of UGC. The ILMS service has been set up at the Central University of Himachal Pradesh and an MoU has been signed with INFLIBNET to develop courses taught in the CUHP. The configuration for around 18 subjects and 184 courses are in work in progress.
ILMS Click to ViewSangam is an information service hosted by Department of Library and Information Science, Central University of Himachal Pradesh (CUHP) offering bibliographic details and location of open educational resources harvested from around the world and offered under one umbrella. These resources are created and hosted in various repositories across the globe and available under various Open Access Licenses. Currently, Sangam has around 2,40,000 records which include Open Access E-Books [97], Open Access Institutional Repositories [236150], Open Research Data Repositories [4599]. The repository will be added with more and more open access repositories. This service is open to all learners of the world as it is accessible publicly.
Sangam Click to ViewThe CUHP Library supports digital learning by providing access to various subscribed e-resources such as e-journals and provides OPAC (Online Public Access Catalog) to all the collections of the library. The library also provides curated list of open access e-resources and various digital learning platforms on it's webpage. The library has also recently launched trial runs of access to subscribed e-resources and e-magazines through mobile applications.
Read MoreSWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.
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Click for Moree-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences, linguistics and languages have been developed by the subject experts working in Indian universities and other R & D institutes across the country. It also provides the following corollary services:
eGyanKosh is a National Digital Repository to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the Open and Distance Learning Institutions in the country. It is hosted by IGNOU, New Delhi.
Click for MoreFOSSEE (Free/Libre and Open Source Software for Education) project promotes the use of FLOSS tools to improve the quality of education in our country. We aim to reduce dependency on proprietary software in educational institutions. We encourage the use of FLOSS tools through various activities to ensure commercial software is replaced by equivalent FLOSS tools. We also develop new FLOSS tools and upgrade existing tools to meet requirements in academia and research. The FOSSEE project is part of the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Ministry of Education (MoE), Government of India.
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