National Digital Library: Virtual availability of learning resources for all
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New Delhi, Aug. 27: Education for all is one of the most important features of upcoming National Educational Policy Draft. Digitalization of education is a major initiative taken under this scheme. Making a digital platform for all, HRD ministry under its National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology, NMEICT has launched the National Digital Library of India.
This digital library is a project to develop a framework of virtual repository of learning resources with a single-window search facility.
As of now, there are more than 3 crore digital resources available through the National Digital Library. The contents cover almost all major domains of education and all major levels of learners. More than 50 lakh students have registered themselves in the National Digital Library with about 20 lakh active users.
As per the official statement, NDL India is designed to hold content of any language and provides interface support for leading Indian languages. It is being arranged to provide support for all academic levels including researchers and life-long learners, all disciplines, all popular form of access devices and differently-abled learners.
Filtered and federated searching is employed to facilitate focused searching so that learners can find out the right resource with least effort and in minimum time.
NDL India being developed to help students prepare for entrance and competitive examination, to enable people to learn and prepare from best practices from all over the world and to facilitate researchers to perform inter-linked exploration from multiple sources.
The pilot project is devising a framework that is being scaled up with respect to content volume and diversity to serve all levels and disciplines of learners. It is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
The pilot project is devising a framework that is being scaled up with respect to content volume and diversity to serve all levels and disciplines of learners. It is being developed at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur.
National Digital Library has been integrated with UMANG App and users can register through www.ndl.gov.in or through the mobile app.