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www.uplaindia.org: A tool for professional development
Get PDFIn the internet era, for an Association to be recognized and its services to be made available globally creation of a web-site is indispensable. The paper describes procedures with reference to designing, registering, uploading the UPLA web-site and its subsequent submission to search engines.
Role of Digital Libraries in E-learning
Get PDFThe use of sophisticated technologies such as computer and tele-communication are bringing classroom to the home and opening access to education for those who never entered or are unable to enter the portals of University. E-learning is an integrated and continuous approach to build knowledge skills of competitive through web enabled technologies. The digital libraries have got a significant role to play to assist effective e-learning process. Effective learning is having advantages in delivering the right content to the right person at the right time. The paper discusses need and importance of e- learning and the role of digital libraries in E-learning process
ICT Tools for building Digital Learning Environment
Get PDFThe paper presents brief information about recent advances in information technology, components of IT that facilitated the building of digital learning environment. Various ICT-based enabling technologies that can be used for information storage, handling and dissemination have been discussed
Impact of Information and Communication Technology on Library and its Services
Get PDFThe advancement of science and technology has made a tremendous improvement and change almost in all walks of life. Especially the magnetic word Information technology has been chanted in all corners of the global arena. The paper highlights the changing dimensions of library services due to the impact of ICT. The various aspects of digital library, its purpose and advantages are talked about. The most essential features such as infrastructure, staff support and budgetary aspects are also discussed with respect to Indian context
Learning Objects: Features and Categories
Get PDFIn the past few years there have been considerable efforts in the computer-mediated learning field. Internet has increased the possibilities with respect to education. Learning objects have become the hype of the e-learning industry, which was first coined by Wayne Hodgins. They provide a new world of easily accessible and individualized learning, made possible by the flexible deployment over networks of small, reusable components from multiple sources. The objective of this paper is to discuss the concepts of learning objects with the help of definitions and examples. The paper also highlights types of learning objects and their features. A brief description of learning content management system has been also included in this paper
Resources and Methods of Instructions in E-Learning Programme
Get PDFThere is a paradigm shift from traditional classroom based-learning to digital-based learning. In the modern era of cutthroat competition both in the education as well as career field, people find it more convenient to rely on the online or web enhanced learning programme for various reasons. The prime purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the pivotal role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and Internet in teaching and learning process. This will also explore various resources and tools of instructions used in e-learning process
ICT for Curriculum Support and Teaching
Get PDFThis paper presents an overview of the use of information and communications technology (ICT) in education, with a focus on the tools, framework architecture for designing curriculum and impact on teaching, curriculum and learning environment of ICT. The government’s current ICT policy in education is then explained, together with a review of the status in the implementation, regarding the four aspects of access and connectivity, teacher ennoblement, curriculum and support, and community-wide culture. Issues and concerns facing teachers and schools are addressed in this movement towards the integration of technology in education
E-Learning and Its Impact on Library & Information Services
Get PDFRecently there has been a rapid growth in internet in the use of on-line education, which means of becoming literate with new mechanism such as computer networks, content portals, e-libraries, distance learning and web enabled class rooms. The present paper covers what is e-learning, need for e-learning, technological tool used for e-learning etc. Designing aspects of e-learning will also be covered. As we have living in the era IT, it has pervaded the all fields of human lives. So, it has entered the library and information profession also. Areas of library and information profession, which is influenced or brought revolutionary changes with the impact of e-learning are also mentioned
Five laws and ten commandments: The open road of library automation in India
Get PDFThis paper discusses development of library management software over the years and emerging of open source solutions for library management as viable alternatives to commercial closed products. It discusses Koha as the most feature rich library automation software in the domain and reports development of Unicode-compliant Bengali version of Koha for college libraries and public libraries in West Bengal.Indian Institute of Technology, Roorke
Open access and institutional repositories – a developing country perspective: a case study of India
Get PDFWorld Library And Information Congress: 72nd IFLA General Conference And Council 20-24 August 2006, Seoul, Korea
http://www.ifla.org/IV/ifla72/papers/157-Ghosh_Das-en.pdfIn the recent years much discussions and initiatives are taken in the area of open access. Open access, a philosophy facilitates availability and distribution of scholarly communication freely, as a means to solve the problem of inaccessibility primarily due to financial constraint particularly in the context of developing countries. Many scholarly literature are freely accessible now without any hindrance. Open access endeavours to reduce barriers to scholarly communication. The open access literature available in various forms like open access archives, institutional repositories, open access journals and off late open courseware. The availability of open source software has accelerated this development. In India, various open access initiatives have been undertaken and are operational. Some more are in developmental stage. This paper discusses various such initiatives in India. Some initiatives have also been taken in the area of metadata harvesting services. Gradually, there has been a realization of the usefulness of the open access by various institutions particularly, the public funded ones. The future of open access in India is dependent upon a proper policy and a framework. In the implementation of open access LIS professionals should play a pro-active role in the growth of collection in the institutional repositories. The paper provides information about the present state of open access Literature by various institutions of the country.IFL