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E-learning: Tools and Technology
Get PDFE-learning is no more a technie word understandable only by a few. Today it is a part of everybody’s life. Whether a student or a house-wife, all tend to use e-learning for their day-to-day bits of information. Library and Information Centres of an organization are hubs for information dissimination, so nothing can be better than libraries coming out with their own e-learning solutions. In this article are listed few easy ways and tools to develop our own e-learning modules, and we look for a better understanding of e-learning at semantic level
Design for Library and Information Science program in E-Learning Environment
Get PDFInternet is fast becoming an engine of innovation in education. Digital learning, digital content, online tutorial, examination and assessment, distance learning etc. are getting more popular day by day. Those concepts are throwing challenges to the traditional delivery of instruction and training in the changing age of globalization and e-resources. The Internet or indeed ICT and all its interactive elements are able to have an extremely positive impact to the learning potential of students as well as teachers. An effective e-learning strategy may be more than the technology itself and the content it carries. It must also focus on critical success factors that include building a learning culture, encouraging true leadership support, and sustaining the change throughout the organization. This paper is an attempt to provide an idea to build up a model program for LIS course in ICT environment
VidyaOnline: Design and Development of a FOSS based Virtual Learning Environment on Library and Information Science at Vidyasagar University, West Bengal
Get PDFVidyaOnline, the prototype web-based modular and interactive learning system, is aimed to produce a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) for library and information science courses. In its final contour, VidyaOnline will be acted as a generic e learning platform for courses offered by the Directorate of Distance Education (DDE), Vidyasagar University. As we know, learning system that supports VLE features (as prescribed by INSPIRAL project), is not restricted to distance education alone, VidyaOnline will have all the facilities to support off-campus learning and evaluation activities related to traditional courses of Vidyasagar University. In short, VidyaOnline will be emerging as a web integrated hybrid e learning system for library and information science courses as well as for other distance and traditional courses of Vidyasagar University. The structure of VidyaOnline extends support for all three forms of VLE – web-based training, supported online learning and informal e learning. The software architecture of VidyaOnline is completely based on FOSS (Free and Open Source Software). It uses LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP) architecture, Moodle course management system and GD graphics library to design and develop an interactive web-integrated e learning platform to accommodate library and information science courses along with other distance education programmes of DDE, Vidyasagar University. VidyaOnline is completely compatible with Unicode and one courseware is available in Unicode-based Bengali language interface
Deployment of Brihaspati at National Law School of India University, Bangalore: A Case Study
Get PDFThe technological impacts on different spheres of activity have brought considerable changes in the learning concept. The abundant availability of information, ease of access without time and physical frontiers are the factors, which has brought the concept of E-learning to most of educational institutions worldwide. Open Source being the preferred platform among the educational sector, Moodle and Manhattan are offering the features essential for learning process on the same. India contributed Brihaspati, the virtual classroom package to open source. The features of Brihaspati are par with the standards available on Moodle and Manhattan. The installation procedure, online support has made Brihaspati to find its place in most of the organizations and institutions across the country. The paper discusses the deployment of Brihaspati at National Law School of India University, Bangalore. The paper highlights the conceptual approach of Brihaspati, its features and troubleshooting methods
Digital Library: Link to E-learning
Get PDFToday ’s library includes sophisticated tools that make it easy to find the best information resources, delivering them to one’s desktop or mobile computing device at the push of a button. While there are still many challenges to realizing the potential of digital information, digital library technologies and practices have developed enough so they are within reach of every type and size of educational institution.
This paper presents the key concepts of what the digital library can be, its key components, link to e-learning and the Campus Enterprise and some of the future directions. It is clear that digital library technology is becoming an essential enabler of library services
ICT Support for Disabled Persons
Get PDFNew hopes are streaming with the advent of Information Communication Technology (ICT). Apart from its increasing importance in bringing the hemispheres close ICT has paved the way for the challenged people—physically or mentally—to ameliorate their life by providing appropriate educational environment and equipments suitable for them. But to avail facilities as much as possible through this booming technology international cooperation for copious provisions in respect to ICT, issues in standards and legislations at various levels, universal access to ICT and its challenges and the principles involved in creating standard technological products etc are to be taken care of. This article aims at capturing some of those provisions the exploitation of which can be optimized through organizational and governmental enterprise to help out the challenged people more and more