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The Vision & Objectives of India Node Vision To make available contexual educational materials freely Realisation of free version of the education curriculum by 2015. Objectives Support and Coordinate the WE activities in India Support the development of a Transnational curriculum. Promote free content development Promote the use of WikiEducator Provide Learner support Background India has a very rich educational history. In the ancient days, sages and scholars imparted education orally, but after the development of letters, it took the form of writing. Palm leaves and barks of trees were used for education, and this in turn helped spread the written literature. By the spread of Buddhism in India, education was made available to everyone and this led to the establishment of some world famous educational institutions Nalanda, Vikramshila and Takshashila. Later, when the British arrived in India, English education was popularised with the help of the European missionaries. Independent India has given greater thrust to education and now it has hundreds of universities and thousands of colleges affiliated to them. India has scores of colleges in every discipline and has positioned itself comfortably as a country that provides quality higher education to its people in specific and to the world in general. However,because of so many factors, the expense for education (especially professional education) has gone up to very high levels and poor families find it very difficult to send their children for higher and professional education. Hence, the free and open curriculum of WikiEducator becomes important. A node for Transnational Qualification Framework The India Node has proposed a Qualification Framework Movement in National Level and World Level, following the WE objective of developing National Curricula. It is a very difficult task to set standards for curricula as knowledge is changing day by day, and now the education curricula are highly depended on place and accessibility factors. Country specific variations are required in the studies on Agriculture, History, Literature and some Vocational subjects. However, it has to be attempted because: It will popularize the use of open and free content on it. The services of the voluntary content developers can be led in a more structured way. Please see the Qualification Framework Project Node for further details National Qualifications Framework The demand for evolving a National Qualification Frame work for India is very high. It is being actively discussed at different venues. UGC's Higher Education Information Systems Project, launched in 2004, among other things, aims at a National Qualification Framework. This is a space for online discussions and support to the National Agencies that are involved in the development of a National Qualifications Framework for India. Please visit and add your views, suggestions and experiences at:- National Qualifications Framework How can you participate? Hearty welcome to this wonderful family of Online Open Distance Learning educators in India on WikiEducator. Here you can start new project pages related to online ODL, you can link the existing ODL pages/projects, start discussion and seek advice/opinions. We would also appreciate if you can be a part of Team India to lead and direct this India Node on WikiEducator. If you are new to Wikieducator, don't worry, there is online wikieducator tutorial to help you round the clock. WikiEducator online tutorial is a classical example for how online ODL lessons can be developed and arranged. Please visit the tutorial pages right now… Project Page The project page is available from here. Project page contains a linked list of Open Distance Projects being taken up by the WikiEducator community in India. The page also provides information on other ODL projects in India. All are welcome to enrich the page by enlisting, providing links and preparing short notes on the Free and Open Distance Learning Projects in India that are not listed on the page so far. Please visit the project page from here Project Page INDIAN WIKIEDUCATOR COMMUNITY The Community members of WikiEducators in India are listed here. WikiIndia Members Represent your State for L4C Workshop at the earliest opportunity and be the first Featured State Participant on India Page. All the friends in the wiki community are requested to add links to the interesting project development activities here... Friendship…thoughts…projects… Click here to read an intersting Skype Chat between Randy Fisher, Canada and Anil Prasad, India News Archives

IN the NEWS Formal Launch of India Chapter of Wikieducator and of pages in Indian Languages The eminent agriculturist scientist and Rajya Sabha member Dr. M.S. Swaminathan will formally launch the Indian Chapter of Wikieducator and the pages in various Indian Languages in a function at India International Centre on the 15th November 2008 at 2:30 p.m. This function is being organised by CEMCA in association with GKP and OWSA. Dr Savithri Singh, Wikieducator Council member and Anil Prasad are the prominent wikieducators who will be coordinating the event. We are looking for volunteers to translate and upload the India page in various Indian languages by that date. We have volunteers for malayalam, kannada and Hindi as of now. For details of programme please see Wikieducator Launch. WikiEd08 Workshop at Acharya Narendra Dev College On the occasion of Gandhi Jayanti, two parallel face2face L4C workshops were conducted at Acharya Narendra Dev College on 3, 4 and 6 October 08. The Wikieducator Learning for Content workshops on Open educational Resources started with a bang. There are 35 participants in the two workshops. Dr Dinesh Abrol gave a talk on IPR issues in Open Learning materials as the inaugural lecture. Half a day of hands on wiki-editing skills followed introductory talks about editing by Anil Prasad and Savithri Singh. For details see L4C India Node Indian Representation in the first elected WE Council Dr. Savithri Singh (83.6 percent votes) and Dr. Pankaj Khare (72 per cent votes) were elected to the first WikiEducator Council. A total of 15 representatives were elected to the WE Council. Dr. Savithri Singh is the Principal of the Acharya Narendra Dev College, University of Delhi, INDIA. Please access her user page from here and campaign page from here. Dr. Pankaj Khare, is the Director, International Division of Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, INDIA. Please access his user page from here and campaign page from here. Complete list of the elected members to the WE Council is available from here.. WikiEducator India Team congratulate all the elected members and wish them all the success in leading the community to win the mission of free version of education curriculum by 2015. WikiEd Campaign on Teachers Day in KARNATAKA Sri JCBM (Jagatguru Chandrashekhara Bharati Memorial) College, Shringeri, Karnataka launched WikiEducator India Team slogan and off line campaign of L4C Workshop on 5th Sept. 2008,on the occasion of Teachers Day. More than 500 students and teachers attended the function. The Prayer Song also was released. Dr. Ramakrishnan Srinivasan, Prof.& Head, Dept. of English organized this programme. UGC Sponsored State Level Two Day Seminar on New Vistas in the Teaching-Learning of Communicative English was organized at Sri Mahaveera College, Moodbidri, Karnataka on 26-27th Sept. 2008. Dr.Ramakrishnan Srinivasan presented a Paper titled "Towards Greater Teacher Empowerment" in which he highlighted the relevant role of WikiEducator Community and it was well received. PCF5 London WikiEducators from India with Dr. Wayne Mackintosh, Education Specialist and Founder of WikiEducator, COL at the PCF5 in London, UK, held from 13/07/2008 to 18/07/2008. Images of some beautiful moments from the WE community life at PCF5, London is available here... PCF6 will be at Kochi, Kerala, India in 2010. IGNOU will be the co-host. Launching of WikiEd India Chapter Dr.Ramakrishnan Srinivasan , a very enthusiastic WE Ambassador from Karnataka has proposed the release of a joint statement by the WE community members "A computer literate, internet enabled teacher is better equipped to create nation-building generation" on the Teachers Day. After discussions with community members and COL & CEMCA officials during PCF5 held in London it was decided to arrange an official launch of L4C (Learning for Content) campaign in India focusing teachers. Now, in continuation to the above, it has been scheduled to launch the Indian Chapter of WikiEducator in a formal function in New Delhi on 15/11/2008. More information about the scheduled function will be added soon.

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WikiEducator Ambassadors from India

• Anil Prasad, India : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Dr. Anju Jain, India :Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Dr. Gita Mathur, India :Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Dr. Sarita Kumar, India :Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Raji NR, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Savithri Singh, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Suresh Kumar CJ, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Sanjaya Mishra, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Pankaj Khare, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Syam Kumar P S, India: : Please communicate via Kumar P S My user Talk Page
• Puneeth Chaganti, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Dr Sanjay Jasola, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Amit Kumar Srivastava, India: : Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Kamal Deep Singh, India: :Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Dr.Ramakrishnan,India: :Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Vivek Sharma,India: :Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• M.U.Paily,India: Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Sanjay Kumar Pandagale,India: :Please communicate via My user Talk Page
• Neeti Yadav, India: :Please communicate via yadav| My User Talk Page
• Dr. Anubha MukherjiPlease communicate via My user Talk Page
• Dr.Pramesh RatnkarPlease communicate via My user Talk Page
• Debadityo Sinha, India: Please communicate via My User Talk Page

Web Resources

Useful Web links NCERT - National Council of Educational Research & Training (INDIA) RIE, Bhopal- Regional Institute of Education, Bhopal (INDIA) Central Board of Secondary Education (INDIA) University Grants Commission The State Council Educational Research and Training (SCERT), Kerala ViCTERS (Virtual Class Technology on Edusat for Rural Schools) in Kerala NCTE - National Council for Teacher Education - INDIA Virtual Centre for Teacher Education Virtual Centre for Technology in Education Tamil font help from Wikipedia Indian Language Converter or The Indian Script Converter Agricultural Marketing Information System (A Central Sector Scheme of Directorate of Marketing & Inspection, Department of Agriculture & Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture) ( United Nations Population Fund India, promotes the right of every woman, man and child) A site for Inspiration and Nation Building