To Parents

In this time of Digital India, where access to smart phone and internet has been drilled down to grass root level. A survey revealed that smart phones and interent is enaging almost 40% of free time of youngsters in India which is almost 3 hours a day. So it becomes imperative that students should be offered with such educational aids which will be accessible to them on their favorite device. This is what exactly ePrabodh does, it enables their educators with technology and resources to be able to make their teachings and learning available on all the internet enabled devices students so widely use and are habitual to.

This availablity of their day-today learnings on their smart phones will help students form habit of healthy usage of the internet. 

Major Benefits of using a Learning assistance system like ePrabodh are as follows:

Online Tests

Teachers who are making great use of ePrabodh, they say Online Tests are one of the most popular ways to assess knowledge. They are very simple to create. They  can choose from various types of question to ask, such as multiple choice, free-text, choose from a list and more. It’s a really easy way to test your students’ knowledge on a topic. 

Engage parents with ePrabodh's Learning Assistance 

Parental engagement is a hot topic at the moment, with parents wanting to know what their children are up to at school/coaching classes/institutes and how they’re progressing. With MIS integration into your ePrabodh's Learning Assistance, you can push all relevant information out to parents, teachers or students from within the ePrabodh's Learning Assistance.

Receive written assessments

It’s not just quantitative data you can assess on – our software is capable of receiving written assessments as well. Rather than worrying about broken printers or lost papers, you can have your students hand in their work digitally. You can then track this and mark it, with the results being written back into your MIS, if you have integration with that. A little bit of time spent setting up the assignments can save you a huge deal of paperwork down the line, a common theme with ePrabodh's Learning Assistance s in general!

The Homeworx Block

An extension of the assessments module, the Homeworx Block has been custom-designed to manage students’ homework assignments. It can really help with engaging parents too, as it lets them log in and see grades. Teachers can set homework ahead of time – get an entire term’s worth of work out of the way early, then mark them online.

Flip your classroom

The trick to any provide holistic solution for Digital Learning is both creating a reason for people to go there, then making it the most comfortable option. A great way to do this is to flip the classroom, a technique that’s becoming increasingly popular. Essentially rather than having students study in lessons they do the theory work at home, so when they come in the lessons become discussion and debate. It’s a highly effective method, and more closely resembles the university model that many students will have to adapt to. ePrabodh Learning Assistance is designed to make Flip Classroom more effective and befenicial for students.

Document storage

This is something ePrabodh is actually very good at. You can provide documents, links and all sorts of rich media, all restricted based on access permissions. It can be very handy for uploading notes and powerpoints, especially in the event that a student is unable to make a lesson due to adverse weather or other scenarios.

Live Classroom

Arguably the best feature of ePrabodh is its ability to offere seamless Live Classroom broadcast to the students and also to offer recording. For some reason, if student is not able to attend the class phyically he can login to live classroom and attend the class remotely or if even that is not possible student can review recorded classroom as and when he can. So with ePrabodh, missed lectures is thing of past.

Importance of Sharing

Sharing permits a message to spread past a man's own system – it expands their "compass" and permits them to feel you welcome their substance i.e. when they see 'the offer' in notices they will feel satisfied you enjoyed it enough to share. It could be Google+ related, a photo of a feline with inscription, a nerd post, news, science and so forth – whatever the individual with whom you need to interface is 'into'! 

It doesn't make a difference on the off chance that it is unique substance of curated, individuals will in any case tend to feel acknowledged when something is shared. 

Likewise, individuals who then get the chance to see those posts will likewise be grateful that "you" were the person who shared it – this is the reason such a large number of individuals hat tip to recognize who empowered them to encounter the post, and thus share forward. 

Your system is not the same as any other person's system – diverse individuals will see content at various times of day too. Sharing is imperative. It makes a procedure personality a primary concern where two individuals are starting to wind up snared significantly more. 

I see sharing data as fundamental to commoogling. It is about exchange over a system of message from an underlying source; it is about sharing substance that matters to you; commoogling, to me, is about all of us cooperating towards accomplishing our own one of a kind potential – regardless of what that might be! 

As I have portrayed, each individual who shares will basically be shaping connections back to the individual from whom they shared onwards. This procedure may see somewhat extract however I trust that as the Google biological system truly begins to show itself, it will end up being a focal component. Indeed, even now, somebody can compose/offer a post, then you share it and you could well show up with your Google+ profile picture close by the substance in the web crawlers. This would be what individuals in your system (and not mine) would see – you are an influencer in their future choices. 

This will be one hell of a fun ride as things begin considerably all the more rapidly. 

I am as yet working it out and trust you are having a good time as much as I!

Cyberspace Literacy: Youth’s Negotiation of New Online Possibilities

Cyber Generation:

Generation before Internet had their own different medias—books, comics, film, radio, and TV—regardless of the possibility that parents weren't acquainted with the specific content their kids were engaged with, in any event they could get to and comprehend the medium so that, in the event that they wanted to understand what their kids were doing or impart the movement to them, they could.

With the appearance of computerized media, things have changed. The requests of the PC interface are huge, rendering many parents "dinosaurs" in the data age possessed by their youngsters. Be that as it may, more essentially, regard for these requests blinds us to the genuine test of utilizing advanced media, to be specific the potential for engagement with data and online content, and for interest in online exercises, systems, and groups. Without a doubt, the very trouble of getting to and utilizing the web boggles numerous grown-ups into trusting that if just they could ace "clicking" on connections with the mouse, then they—like their youngsters—would be web "specialists." This is not a conviction that we hold for the pen, else we'd quit instructing students English once they had figured out how to peruse and compose, yet the kid who "pros" around the screen appears to be skilled to the point that, we close serenely, they know everything they need to know as of now.

Such a conclusion appears to be affirmed by the exceptional news features of youthful programmers, young hackers and crackers breaking national security codes or adolescent business people making a fortune on E-Bay, Flipkart or Facebook not to mention the energetic inceptions of such late triumphs as Google and YouTube. Youngsters  themselves, aware of being the original to grow up with the web, agree with  people in general festival of their status as "computerized locals."

Internet Literacy

First, literacy is a type of information with clear coherence crosswise over open structures (print, audio, video, interpersonal, advanced). As respects the Internet, this learning represents a staged arrangement of difficulties, from starting equipment challenges of access through to more perplexing interpretative and evaluative capabilities with respect to content furthermore, benefits that are particularly managed by (or socially engraved into) the innovation on the other hand content.

Second, proficiency is an arranged type of realizing that provides platform to singular expertise and social hones that is empowered (or blocked) by (unequally dispersed) monetary, social, and

social assets (or capital). Critically, this rises up out of the cooperation between person action, innovation or interface outline, and institutional forming, and can't be caught on

exclusively as "a nonpartisan specialized skill."

Thirdly, proficiency includes an arrangement of socially controlled capabilities including both that which is normatively esteemed and that which is disliked or misbehavior. "Internet Literacy" specifically might be recognized from different types of proficiency to the degree that the particular abilities, encounters, writings, organizations, also, social qualities connected with the web contrast from those connected with print, varying media, or different types of correspondence.

However, now that the internet converges multiple technologies, forms, and spaces of mediation and information—blurring hitherto distinctive social practices of information and entertainment, work and leisure, public and private, even childhood and adulthood, national and global—a convergence of media (or audiovisual) and information literacy is needed to map out a constructive route to understanding what (young) people know, and need to know, regarding that deceptively simple notion of “using the internet.”

Possibilities in New Age Learning:

No wonder that what excites young people about the internet is primarily the peer-to-peer opportunities it affords, in which they provide for each other the responsiveness, criticism, humor, feedback, openness, and networking that so often is absent from content designed for children by adults. Yet since information and communication technologies increasingly represent a key route to education, health, civic engagement, employment skills, participation in government, therapeutic advice, extended family relations, and so forth, it is here that we must ensure literacy is sufficient. Celebrating young people’s enterprise and enthusiasm, while failing to support, respond, or engage with their online activities, risks failing to bring to fruition the ambitious hopes we hold not only for the internet but, more significantly, for young people.

Future Priorities and Needs for eLearning for cultural diversity

We have to define the future priorities and needs for eLearning for cultural diversity.

To make the philosophy of eLearning for cultural diversity worthwhile, higher education should cover the organizational features of Learning Management Systems that affect the process and outcomes of planned change cultural activities among digital citizens (Boyd and Meyer, 2001; Conle and et. al., 2007; May, 1999; Neo, 2005; Stevens-Long and Crowell, 2002). 

The required skills and experiences to construct and support a free environment, therefore, can focus on working collaboratively with colleagues and global partners in global online culture through eLearning. This important process engages learners and instructor in multicultural projects designed to be realistic, intriguing and relevant to real life experiences. On the other hand, promoting excellence through continuous process improvement and the creative pursuit of new ideas and systems in global online culture should be a model for how theory can translate into practice on complex decision-making processes to encourage digital citizens’ independence in thinking critically in the global eLearning context. 

Curriculum Plans and Social Actions 

The major categories were those that helped to define the important and urgent areas of curriculum plans and social actions for eLearning for cultural diversity. eLearning experts emphasized that the following must become important categories for eLearning for cultural diversity in higher education: 

1) providing successful activities and agreements for a knowledge society, and 

2) recognizing the multicultural ethical, legal, and social implications of new developments. 

Not only are curriculum plans and social actions the familiarities and awareness of facts, truths, and information gained through experience, learning, and self-contemplation, but also these critical plans and actions mean the confident understanding of a subject, potentially with the ability to utilize it for a specific purpose. eLearning for cultural diversity, therefore, should generate new forms and tools of gathering data, manipulating and storing knowledge, transforming information, and working together over distance and time to build a knowledge society efficiently, and transfer global knowledge effectively to the new contexts of social justice. Building a knowledge society should be the most crucial goals of building the global culture in higher education. 

Even when the creation of syllabus plans requires more than collecting, acquiring and transmitting large amounts of information, data, and experience, multicultural knowledge should emerge from the diverse interactions of body, mind and soul by emerging from understanding the global word. Besides, as critically pointed out by Beaudoin (2003), social actions are very crucial for higher education to tie the individual self to collective responsibilities due to remarkable advances in eLearning for cultural diversity. In this context, the cutting-edge technologies can build a powerful multicultural network to share and exchange knowledge worldwide for the prosperity and well-being of its members by using an electronic network to send and receive information across diverse locations, devices, and services. 

Students as Leaders -- Complete Engaged Learning

A big test for us as teachers is dealing with the fragile harmony between coordinated learning and self-coordinated learning in an arrangement obviously encounters. One instructional system that can offer this adjust some assistance with being to incorporate learner-as-pioneers encounters.

Giving chances to students to lead the pack in learning encounters for a gathering or the course group can give a feeling of strengthening that "is both a critical element and the desired outcome of participation in an online learning community" (Palloff and Pratt, 1999).

Students-as-Leaders encounters additionally move the learner's outlook from the survey the teacher as the essential substance power to building up an attitude of him or herself as an important benefactor to the learning knowledge. Understudies then can consider themselves to be information generators and connectors for themselves, as well as for the course group all in all. Having Students lead exercises additionally backings Vygotsky's hypothesis of the zone of proximal advancement. As Students create aptitude, their zones move, move and extend. In a perfect world, course encounters are outlined with adaptability to be reshaped to adjust to these moving zones.

When is that the best time in an exceedingly course for learner-led activities and what's a proper sequence of steps for getting ready these styles of activities? This tip provides many hints on coming up with and implementing a learner-as-leader activity

Appropriate Guidance and Planning time

Student-led activities generally succeed when learners are prepared; at the point when desires are clear and intentional; when procedures and systems are unequivocal; and when the exercises fit learners' zones of proximal advancement.

Here are a few stages of incorporating into your arranging.

• Numerous Students might be situated to driving a class action, for example, a gathering, dialog, pretend, level headed discussion or undertaking. Begin discussing the idea of learner-drove exercises from the earliest starting point of the course.
• Give Students an itemized portrayal of the movement and the normal results and obligations regarding the learners. An outline of the movement with a connection to the definite headings frequently functions admirably. More about depicting results and desires is beneath.
• Urge Students to start settling on decisions about their arranged learner-drove action after the initial 25% of the course has been finished.
• Give time in the course schedule for Students to start arranging the exercises around the center of the semester.
• Plan teacher group dialog time for the exercises before the group is booked to lead an action. Contingent upon the degree and many-sided quality of the movement this examination could be one week before or numerous weeks. The educator serves as advocate and expert in this discourse, keeping the emphasis on the results and clear desires.

Individual vs. Team-led Activities

A standout amongst the most vital parts of understudy drove exercises is to guarantee that Students comprehend what the reason and results of the action are and how the results fit into the bigger connection of the general course arrange. Once the results from the educator are clear and grasped by the learners, the Students can likewise create extra objectives or results for the movement. The normal results of a movement ought to additionally be expressed in the syllabus with the goal that Students know from the earliest starting point of the course what they will be relied upon to achieve through their learner-drove action.

Picking the Type of Activity

Gagne, Briggs, and Wager (1992) portray five sorts of learning results: intellectual skill, attitude, verbal information, cognitive strategy, and motor skill. Of these five, the initial three sorts loan themselves best to learner-drove exercises in light of the fact that the exercises can be all the more effortlessly fulfilled in a web learning environment than the last two.

Understudies can lead an assortment of instructional encounters. The absolute most regular exercises are to lead a gathering in a talk, discussion, or examination theme. Other basic exercises are to work in groups on complex issues or tasks; to plan and execute open deliberations, to pretends key ideas, amusements, and so on. Again the key for achievement is planning, meeting, and clear desires.

It ought to dependably be accepted that Students are beginner movement pioneers and thusly ought to be urged to keep their action basis both from a pedagogical and innovative point of view.

DDT:SKOI Details

Course Name:
"Desi Digital Tips: Survival Kit for Online India, Tips and Tricks for Online and Social Media Daily Activities"

Date of Commencing:
01 March 2016

Cost:
Free

Course Format: 
Social

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ePrabodh a complete delivering of reliable offerings

To be certain the success of your institution's finding out initiatives, ePrabodh provides clients with a complete delivering of reliable offerings. 

Additionally to hosting, safety and procedure renovation, ePrabodh takes full accountability

for all studying content running within your approach, together with content web hosting, protection, upkeep and updates. 

From consulting and technical offerings to coaching, 24x7 help Desk aid, program aid, change administration and purchaser care, ePrabodh ensures that solutions are applied seamlessly within each customer group. 
Scalability, Reliability & Flexibility for world Deployment 

ePrabodh's world-class structure is designed for high performance and scalability throughout your entire corporation. Our internet-hosted supply model is developed to fulfill or exceed the most stringent security, reliability, scalability and performance specifications. 

In partnership with main content material Distributors, we make use of a sophisticated global network with thousands of specifically-geared up servers to help withstand the daily requests for rich, dynamic, and interactive content, transactions, and applications. For over a long time, ePrabodh has delivered multi-lingual managed finding out offerings and support for administrators and end-users world wide. 

EPrabodh takes full responsibility for the supply and integrity of your process. We furnish all post-sale approach administration, upkeep, upgrades, technical help, and other services required to hold your e-learning answer up and going for walks at top-rated efficiency stages-offerings that in traditional internal network deployments would have required committed IT assets, exponentially growing the complete rate of ownership. 

And since the ePrabodh solution is delivered through an online browser from significant application servers, procedure upgrades are delivered immediately and transparently to every person. 

create unmatched digital learning experience

To create unmatched digital learning experience

Technologies and innovations can enhance instructing and adapting only when utilized as one bit of a larger solution. Basically giving every youngster a PC, Tablet or Mobile won't regularly create unmatched learning experience unless you additionally address instructing, learning, and appraisal; develop initiative and a society of development; manufacture limit; and change the learning environment.

To support one-o-one "anywhere, anytime" learning, consider offering course that: 

• Enable a new, more complete learning experience.
• Are adaptable, fascinating, and motivational. 
• Cater to a scope of learning styles and modalities. 
• Reflect your establishment's vision and convictions about learning. 
• Reflect your institution’s vision, beliefs and most importantly technique about learning

Learning Potential from Different Devices.

eLearning - a great way

e-learning is a great way to get to instructive educational programs outside of a conventional classroom. By and large, it alludes to a course, program or degree conveyed totally on the web.


With the assistance of advanced innovation, teachers, students and knowledge seekers have an assortment of learning apparatuses at the tip of their finger. Elearning empowers Teachers and Students alike.

- Teachers can team up to share their thoughts and assets online: They can correspond with others over the world in a moment, meet the deficiencies of their work, refine it and furnish their understudies with the best. This methodology certainly upgrades the act of educating.

- Students can create profitable examination attitudes at a youthful age: Technology gives understudies prompt access to a wealth of value data which prompts learning at much speedier rates than some time recently.

- Students and educators have admittance to a region of material: There are a lot of ingenious, solid sites accessible on the Internet that both instructors and understudies can use. The Internet additionally gives an assortment of learning and doesn't confine understudies to one individual's assessment.

- Online learning is presently a just as valid choice: Face-to-face connection is immense, particularly in the more youthful years, yet a few understudies work better when they can go at their own pace. Online training is currently authorized and has changed the way we see instruction.

As the range of web is perpetually extending, and additionally the expansion of tablets and cell phones, learning could be a vastly improved affair. Advanced Era is about 'learning of web' as well as 'information through the web'. e-learning with its different points of interest can offer India some assistance with addressing its instructive difficulties today.

Productivity Tools of an effective Learning Management System

What all is required from a good Learning Assistance System?

Productivity Tools required for a good Learning Assistance System or Learning Management system should be able to achieve these important goals:

Workload sharing and best practices

A good Learning Assistance system should enable the Teacher to share planners and environment should help teachers share ideas and the workload.

Easy access to all important resources

For enabling teachers to be more productive these tools provide easy access to different resources like lessons, digital content, and grade books with a single login on any device, using any platform.

Add surplus time to teach

An effective system allows teachers to do more in less time by cutting down redundancy on non-teaching activities. Add more teaching time to the day with features that support Right Blend learning and flipped classroom techniques.

Streamlining the lesson planning and delivery.

Learning Assistance system saves lesson preparation time and promotes best practices by sharing template courses. This ensures streamlined lesson planning and delivery.

A lot of time of teachers is spent at their day planning lessons, setting and distributing papers, checking attendance, grading and marking assignments, tests, and exams, and taking care of other administrative tasks. A good learning assistance system should be able to take care of these tasks freeing lot of Teacher's valuable time.

Simplify communications

Dashboards for each user profile make it easy for teachers, parents and students to view upcoming tasks and assignments for all courses, announcements, and reports of student progress against objectives, all with no extra effort from the teacher. This simplifies communication and weeds out error because of communication gaps between these stakeholders. Effective learning system must have all these feature to enhance and give more power to a teacher to impart knowledge.

Usage of smartphone among youth in India

A comparison between smartphone usage among youth in Tier-1 and Tier-2 Cities in India

Post under the series "Youth and eLearning in Digital India"

The Classification of Indian cities comprises a ranking system used by the Government of India. The earlier classification of cities was changed from A-1 to X, A, B-1 and B-2 to Y and C and unclassified cities to Z. X, Y and Z are more commonly known as Tier-1, Tier-2 and Tier-3 cities respectively.

Tier-1 Cities or Metros as we call them are Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Delhi, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai and Pune.

Tier-2 or Mini metro class cities are Agra, Ajmer, Aligarh, Allahabad, Amravati, Amritsar, Asansol, Aurangabad, Bareilly, Belgaum, Bhavnagar, Bhiwandi, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar, Bikaner, Bokaro Steel City, Chandigarh, Coimbatore, Cuttack, Dehradun, Dhanbad, Durg-Bhilai Nagar, Durgapur, Erode, Faridabad, Firozabad, Ghaziabad, Gorakhpur, Gulbarga, Guntur, Gurgaon, Guwahati, Gwalior, Hubli-Dharwad, Indore, Jabalpur, Jaipur, Jalandhar, Jammu, Jamnagar, Jamshedpur, Jhansi, Jodhpur, Kannur, Kanpur, Kakinada, Kochi, Kolhapur, Kollam, Kota, Kozhikode, Lucknow, Ludhiana, Madurai, Malappuram, Malegaon, Mangalore, Meerut, Moradabad, Mysore, Nagpur, Nanded-Waghala, Nashik, Nellore, Noida, Patna, Pondicherry, Raipur, Rajkot, Rajahmundry, Ranchi, Rourkela, Salem, Sangli, Siliguri, Solapur, Srinagar, Surat, Thiruvananthapuram, Tiruchirappalli, Tiruppur, Tirupati, Ujjain, Vadodara, Varanasi, Vasai-Virar City, Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam and Warangal.

According to a survey done by TCS in the cities mentioned above, in year 2014-15, a whopping 72 percent of high school and above students own smartphones (compared to just 40 percent in 2011-12).

Out of these youth in metros has been using smartphones from quite a sometime and had formed a habit of using mobile based apps apart from the regular social networking and communication apps. Hence time they spend on the mobile is already occupied.

The youth in mini metros, on other hand, has newly acquired the smart phones and is rapidly forming habit of these apps, it’s easier to introduce more productive apps and mobile based e-learning to this demography as the time they spend on the mobile is largely unoccupied currently.

An interactive, engaging e-learning activity is more adaptable to this group of youths. The most vital requirement for such app which can deliver e-learning is it should capture students attention in fun way along with imparting knowledge and value add to their mobile usage.

Impact of Mobile on youth today

This writeup is first of the series: "Youth and eLearning in Digital India"

Communication is essential need of individuals

thus portable communication innovation is necessary piece of youngsters. Moment, pace and numerous time and space progress are components of portable communication . Youngsters like to talk more by means of new communication advancements stages. Youngsters and their regular life are exceedingly connected with portable communication innovation. Mobile telephone is utilized for some various purposes instead of just calling or messaging. Mobile telephone and its network are so essential in nowadays and in the life of youthful individuals. Mobile telephones and its ringtones, wallpapers mirror the client identity and state of mind.

Portable influences brains of individuals, and it results into half focus, feeling uneasiness, checking phones over and over for system. The lives' of youngsters is appended with new communication advances. Over use may bring about mental issues and issue. It makes numerous spaces and time connection.

Mobile is more than just a communication technology now a days for youngsters, they also inuse it for many online  exercises. Internet on Mobile telephone has changed the very way of portable communication . The utilization of informal communication locales and application like we talk and whats-application makes the versatile client snared to the gadget for long time. Versatile makes circumstance and feeling like together yet alone.

In spite of the fact that youngsters know about the negative parts of Mobile telephones yet at the same time use it much of the time. Youngsters and every single mobile user never make their Mobile telephones switch off indeed, even in those ranges where Mobile telephones are limited. Spots like sanctuaries, mosques, and church are not free from the aggravation of Mobile telephone. Versatile communication is only a method for communication yet portable has multiplied the utilization like other media as well. Like web, music, radio, recordings, melodies, movies and considerably more.