Top 10 Government E Learning Platforms in India

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Top 10 Government E Learning Platforms in India
Coronavirus induced pandemic has forced the shut
down of schools and colleges across the
country. This has hit hard the students from the
middle- and lower-class background. Also, many
e-learning Platforms in India have cropped up
during this time. Some are free e-learning
platforms while others are paid e-learning
platforms. But students do not have the resources
to join these expensive courses online.
Moreover, the quality of such courses should be
taken with a pinch of salt. So, we have brought
you the list of free government e-learning
platforms that are provided by the various
departments of the Government of India. The
courses available on these websites are designed
as per the rules of education authority in India
like AICTE, UGC, MHRD and others. Thus, these
resources can be relied upon for education
purposes.
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• At School Level
• SHAGUN Online Junction
• Launched in 2019 by Ministry of Human Resource
  Development of Government of India.
• Term Shagun is derived from two words, namely,
  Shala meaning Schools and Gunvatta meaning
  Quality.
• It is one of the worlds largest Integrated
  Online Junction for School Education Shagun.
  As the name suggests, different websites and
  portals are brought together into a single
  platform so that students from schools can get
  different information at one place only.
• It was launched to improve the school education
  system by bringing various activities under
  Department of School Education and Literacy in
  Government of India and all States and Union
  Territories under single platform.
• The platforms under SHAGUN are
• NROER
• DIKSHA
• E-PATHSHALA
• National Repository of Open Educational Resources
• It is a collaborative platform which brings
  together everyone interested in school and
  teacher education.
• It provides
• Open Education curriculum for various subjects
  like Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology,
  Geography, History and other subjects.
• E-library for homogeneous collection of study
  resources in form of e- books. There are
  thousands of e-books available with images,
  interactives, audios, and videos.
• E-courses for online that contain topics from
  various subjects and lessons over such topics.
• DIKSHA
• It provides digital infrastructure for school
  education. It is an initiative of National
  Council of Education Research and Training
  (NCERT).
• It provides the content by the following
  educational bodies

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• NCERT
• CBSE
• NIOS
• State/UTs Boards
• The content is available in multiple languages
  and can be accessed by scanning the QR code
  given in the school textbooks. There are e-pdfs
  and explanatory videos available on the app that
  are uploaded by various contributory teachers
  for the students.
• E-pathshala
• It is also developed by NCERT and CIET. It
  provides multi lingual access to numerous
  resources including audios, videos, epubs and
  flipbooks. This platform can be easily accessed
  through laptop, desktop, tablets and smart
  phones.
• Digital textbooks for all the classes from 1st to
  12th are available on e-pathsala. It in one of
  the best government e-learning website.
• Moreover, it hosts various events where students
  can participate like workshops, contests and
  festivals.
• SWAYAM
• It is a National Online Education platform
  launched on July 9 2017 by Ministry of Human
  Resource Development (MHRD) to provide one
  integrated platform and portal for online
  courses.
• SWAYAM stands for Study Webs of Active Learning
  for Young Aspiring Minds. It is a Massive open
  learning course (MOOC) platform under Digital
  India programme.
• It covers 1st and 12th class syllabus as well as
  skill sector courses to ensure that every
  student in the country has access to the best
  quality higher education at the affordable cost.
• It also provides courses for UG and PG courses.
• SWAYAM PRABHA
• 32 high quality Educational channels through DTH
  are provided across the length and breadth of
  the country 24x7 basis.

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• It has curriculum-based course content covering
  diverse disciplines to make quality learning
  resources accessible to remote areas where
  internet connectivity is a challenge.
• It is a lifeline for those students who cannot
  afford smart phones and internet.
• At Graduate Post-Graduate Level e-PG Pathshala
• It is Government e learning Websites for
  postgraduate courses. It was started by the
  Ministry of Education under NME-ICT (National
  Mission on Education through ICT) and the UGC.
• On this platform e-content in almost 70 subjects
  across all disciplines of social science, arts,
  fine arts and humanities, natural and
  mathematical science and others are present.
• There are high-quality text contents,
  illustrations, videos, tutorials, documents,
  PDFs, etc.
• Under this initiative, three modules are present
• E-Adhyayan Here, 700 e-books are provided for
  Post-Graduation courses along with video
  content.
• MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) UGC-MOOCs
  produces courses for post graduate subjects.
• E-Pathya It offers offline and distance-learning
  courses for postgraduate students. It is a
  software driven course/content package for higher
  education.
• E-ShodhSindhu
• It has been formed by merging three consortia
  initiatives, namely
• UGC-INFONET Digital library Consortium
• NLIST
• INDEST-AICTE Consortium

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All academic institutions like central and state
universities and colleges can avail of the
services provided. For Technical Courses NAPTEL
Online Certification National Programme on
Technology Enhanced Learning was established in
2014. It is a project funded by Ministry of Home
Affairs Govt of India and managed by IIT
Chennai. Other IIT institutions also contribute
content to this government e-learning
website. It offers courses in Engineering,
science, social sciences and humanities. Though,
there is no course fee but fee is applicable to
certification exams. There are 41 domains across
10 disciplines available on NAPTEL. NAPTEL has
been giving course level certificates and there
have been quite a few students doing multiple
courses from NAPTEL, which are not always
connected. Hence, NAPTEL has linked various
courses from different backgrounds that go
together building on the foundations and then
going in for the electives. Virtual Labs Virtual
Labs is a Best Free eLearning Platform in India
initiative of Ministry of Education under
National Mission on Education through ICT. It
aims to provide remote access to virtual
laboratories for students from science and
engineering streams from both undergraduate and
postgraduate levels. So that students can
conduct experiments by arousing their
curiosity. It provides a complete Learning
Management System where the students can avail
the various tools for learning, video lectures,
animated demonstrations and self-evaluation. This
consortium is conducted by IIT Delhi and has
around 12 participating institutes. The project
consists of 700 web experiments and lab
facilities under the supervision of experienced
faculties.