Presentation by Prof. Madhu Parhar for ICT Leadership in Higher Education Workshop on 24-26 February 2013 at Hyderabad.

1. ICT in Higher
Education
Policy Perspectives
Madhu Parhar

2. http://youtu.be/UFwWWsz_X9s

3. Government of India,
Ministry of Human
Resource Development has
rolled out its agenda of
enhancing
GER in Higher
Education to 15% by 2015
and 30% by 2020

4. Major National Initiatives
in Education
RTE 2009
Universalisation of Secondary
Education
Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha
Abhiyan

5. Phases in Development
First 20 years – Till 1967
Second 18 Years – Till 1985
Third 13 Years – Till 1997-98
Fourth - 1998 Onwards

6. First National Policy in 1968
Policy of Education 1979
(draft)
Second National Policy in
1986

7. Policy (1968) was
Silent on
Educational
Technology and
Media

8. Educational Technology
Programme
Initiated in
1972

9. National Policy on
Education
1986, modified in 1992
stressed upon employing
educational technology to
improve the quality of
education.

10. TV and Radio Transmission to be Expanded
Expand In house Programme Production
Develop Training Programmes
Provide Radio Sets and TV sets to all
Schools by 1995
Mount Technology Mission

11. Policy was Media

12. Centrally Sponsored
Educational Technology
Scheme
Started in 7th Plan, contd. till 8th
and 9th Plan

13. National ICT
Policies
National Policy on ICT in
School Education
ICT @School Scheme

14. Information and
Communication
Technology @ Schools
in 2004.

15. Partnership with State Government and Union Territories
Administrations for providing computer aided education.
Second is the establishment of smart schools, which shall
be technology demonstrators.
Third component is teacher related interventions, such as
provision for engagement of an exclusive teacher, capacity
enhancement of all teachers in ICT and a scheme for
national ICT award as a means of motivation.
Fourth one relates to the development of a e-content,
through Central Institute of Education Technologies , six
State Institutes of Education Technologies and 5 Regional
Institutes of Education

16. National Policy on
Information and Communication
Technology
School Education (Draft 2011)
• alternatemodes of education,
• continuing education,
• teacher capacity building,
• information systems for efficient
management of the school.

17. Higher Education
Countrywide Classroom
EMRC and AVRC
Interactive Television – 1990s
Edusat - 2004

18. National Mission On
Education Through
Information
And
Communication
Technology

19. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/

20. eGyankosh

21. UGC is modernizing
university campuses with
state-of-the art campus
wide networks and setting
up of its own nationwide
communication network
named UGC - Infonet

22. Universities across
the country will also
be provided with
access to 9000
journals

23. Technology Demystification
ICT Skills
Development of Digital
Contents
eGoverance

24. ICT Policy to Create
Synergy of Effects
and Impact
Optimize on Return on
Investment

25. Technology
Infrastructure is
Important
but
Technology
Leadership

26. ICT Policy is not
promoting ICT
Culture
but
emphasizing on the
ICT use