Creating a Global ICT

Platform for Knowledge

Delivery A presentation @ Seminar for Distance Education and National Mission of Education through Information and Communication Technologies

for Sustainable Development

The urgency to reach out

Since 1993 India is

adding

approximately 20

million children

every year

The urgency to reach out … contd.

With the current

GER* of

approximately 10%

only 2 million make

it to higher

education

*GER – Gross Enrolment Ratio

The urgency to reach out … contd.

But it is changing.

E.g. Maharashtra’s

tertiary enrollment

rate is reaching

40%*

*http://india-resource.tripod.com/India-Demographics.html

Physical Infrastructure…

…soon will not be

able to cope.

More teachers are needed too…

GER has seen 70

fold increase in the

past 6 decades but

teachers have

increased by just

over 20 times**Economic Times report in Oct 2010

There is an urgent need to adopt new paradigms of knowledge delivery to

circumvent the shortage of good quality faculty and

infrastructure!

Introducing Campus LabsTM*

*Formerly known as Campus DimensionsTM

A platform build on the latest of Information &

Communication Technologies that is envisioned to …

…let learners

…focus on learning!

X

…allow teachers to

…spend time on teaching!

X

…help administrators make informed and

quick decisions

…and break the physical limitations to

reach out to students beyond

college boundaries

Campus LabsTM is a software that works on Internet / Intranet

…with a centralized database to organize

information within (& outside) campuses

…to facilitate communication among users within

(and beyond) physical boundaries of a campus

…to help govern the institution by automating

processes, workflows and various MIS modules

Student Admission

Academics Administration

ExaminationFaculty Management

Research ProgramsGeneral

AdminFront Office

Transportation

HRAlumni Student portal

Hostel PlacementLibrary

Fee

PayrollInventory

Asset

Budget

Financial

Accounting

Provide a technological platform to elevate

institutions to next level

Digital Delivery of Learning

Digital Course Content

Virtual Classrooms

Online Assessment

Works as nervous system of the campus

processes & transmits

information

helps campus responds to

external changes

controls functioning of

entire campus

How to go about it?

Start with defining ownership

Engagement of

stakeholders

(employees / students)

in the process is most

necessary

Be scientific, not casual

•Identify processes

•Re-engineer as

and when

necessary

Adopt to change when needed

Move to best

practices to

improve

efficiencies

Build Culture

Prepare people

for the change

Implement the software

Tackle priority

areas first even

if it means

temporary

disruption. Start

with academic &

Administrative

Processes.

Increase Circle of Implementation in a

Planned Way

1. Open to other Campuses

2. Affiliated Colleges

3. Private Students

4. Distance Education

Students

5. Integrate with other

Universities / institutions &

bodies like UGC / AICTE /

Others

Evolving as an ICT platform

Built with an open standards to allow more applications to be

ported on it

Apart from being used as MIS / ERP / Campus

Management System, Campus Labs is being used

as a platform to deliver services / content &

applications

Student Services

Thank You…