Global eBook 2016 by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting

E-learning content

At least 60% of all printed books sold in India are educational books. The emphasis on education has enabled early adoption of digital content in Indian universities, for almost a decade now. In the higher education and academic category, especially in STM segment, ejournals have been available to institutions and libraries. Journals published by publishers like Springer, Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, and Wiley were among the first. Much of the content available for the STM category originates outside the country. But in Social Sciences and the Humanities, a modest list of journals are being published in India, chiefly by Sage India, which publishes 50 journals in Humanities and Social Sciences. One of the largest distributors of e-resources to institutions and libraries in India, Balani Infotech, part of iGroup (Asia Pacific Limited), distributes a wide variety of electronic content—ebooks, PDF documents, audiobooks, ejournal issues, classic literature for K–12, and more—produced by over 200,000 publishers from around the world.

Under the Government of India’s National Library and Information Services Infrastructure for Scholarly Content (N-LIST) of INFLIBNET —the online digital library linking universities and colleges— nearly 80,000 ebooks and thousands of high quality paid e-journals have been made available to research institutions, universities, and colleges across the country. Almost 90% of the ebooks in this network are sourced from the US-based Ebrary platform.

The Indian Government has been investing in electronic content creation too. Elearning courses from the national premier technology institutions, the seven Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) and the Bangalore-based Indian Institution of Science (IISc) are being offered as part of the National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL). The Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, funds the NPTEL. The aim of the project is to enhance engineering education in the country. About 260 courseware modules were available in phase 1 in January 2013, from a total of 1216 proposed courses.

The government’s One-Stop Education Portal, Sakshat, launched in 2006, is to become a repository of educational resources for teachers and learners—from kindergarten onwards. The portal houses virtual classrooms and self-learning materials. A work-in-progress, the portal aims to synergies the work by national-level educational bodies like UGC, AICTE, IGNOU, IISc, IIT, NCERT etc.

The National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER), a digital portal, was launched in 2013, to offer digital and digitisable resources (audio, video, interactive images and documents) in different languages along with online activities. The resources hosted here are developed by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT).

Online learning in schools has just started to boom in India, and “techno schools” are mushrooming in all major cities. As part of its plans for business integration, Repro, a leading printer and content services provider, based in Mumbai, has launched Rapples, a tablet-based learning solution for schools. The tablet comes with pre-loaded content, including textbooks and interactive media elements, as decided by the schools. Content is available from a cloud-based platform. This venture by Repro complements its existing capabilities of content digitization and conversion. The Rapples solution includes converting

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