Digital Initiatives @ DEI
Dayalbagh Educational Institute
(Deemed to be University)
Introduction
• The Dayalbagh Educational Institute has been at the forefront in deploying and harnessing the potential of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) in education, collaboration and community outreach.
• It has invested significantly in digital infrastructure, developed innovations in education with information and communication
technology and has extended the benefits of ICT to the community with special focus on rural, tribal and underprivileged communities.
• DEI is working towards making ICT pervasive and immersive in all
aspects of education and towards Digital India.
Digital Initiatives
ICT Infrastructure eContent Generation
Virtual Laboratories
ICT Centers, Information Centers & Modes
of Delivery
Connectivity to Remote Areas;
Engaging ISPs
Multimedia Laboratory & MoU
Based Courses
Dayalbagh School Education using ICT Interventions
Digitization at Harisal
MOOCSKENE
& NAI DISHA
(i-c-n-c-) TALL Laboratory
Quantum and Nano Computing
Virtual Center
2G to 5G Technologies
Laboratory
DEI Surveillance
System EdRP
Library Automation &
eJournal Services
Smart Connected
Vehicles Smart Agriculture Smart Grid Hole in the Wall
Experiment Telemedicine
IC T In fr as tructur e
Fully Networked Campus with 1Gbps Internet Connectivity from NKN
State of the Art Multimedia Laboratory
eClassrooms
Video Conferencing Infrastructure: Enterprise
Polycom; BigBlueButton (Virtual Classroom System);
Impartus; PeopleLink
Video Streaming Servers
High Performance Computing: 24 Blade, Dual Xeon based Computing Cluster.
Web Servers and Network Attached Storage: 140TB NAS; All Servers (Web, LMS, CMS, DNS) are hosted
at DEI.
Data Center: Hosts DEI Servers, NAS, Video Conferencing equipment, HPC system
3D Printing
2G-5G Lab
eContent Generation
Platform Number of Courses Uploaded Number of Modules/ Lectures per Course
SWAYAM 5 35
e-PG-Pathshala 14 35
NME-ICT (Vidyaprasar Portal) 26 25-50
Vidya-Mitra (NME-ICT) 73 1
Institute LMS 23 25-40
Institutional DVDs 13 15
Institutional DVDs (Theology) 6 25
Large number of courses have been developed at DEI using the Four Quadrant Approach and hosted on Government Initiated Platforms, Institute LMS for online access and on DVDs for asynchronous delivery
SWAYAM
SWAYAM (https://swayam.gov.in/) is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality.
http://vp.dei.ac.in/
DEI launched Vidyaprasar
(http://vp.dei.ac .in/), an on-line collaborative learning, live web cast and content
management system on its Founder's Day, January 31,
2011, to provide students with state-of-the-art learning
resources.
Virtual Laboratories
• Delivering a Laboratory Experience to a Remote Student with no Physical Facilities.
• Virtual Labs project is an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India under the aegis of National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT).
• DEI has established the following Remote Triggered Laboratories that have been indigenously designed to enable students to conduct advanced experiments
• Chemical Sciences
• Virtual Analytical Chemistry Laboratory
• Virtual Chemistry Laboratory
• Physical Sciences
• Virtual Microwave Laboratory
http://vlab.co.in/participating-institute-dayalbagh
Virtual Laboratories @ DEI
• Electronics & Communications
• Virtual Advanced Lab for Design and Test in Electronics
• Virtual Advanced Lab for Interactive Design and Test in Electronics
• Remote Triggered-Analog Communications Electronics (RT-ACE)
• Remote Triggered-Signals & Systems Lab (RT-SigSys)
• Remote Triggered-Fiber Optic Communication (RT-FibCom)
• Electrical Engineering
• Virtual Power Systems Laboratory
• Mechanical Engineering
• Metal Forming and Solid Mechanics Laboratory
eVALIDATE
ICT Centers
• DEI has established ICT enabled centres in
• Amritsar (Punjab)
• Murar (Bihar)
• Rajaborari-Timarni (Madhya Pradesh)
• Soaminagar, New Delhi
• Bangalore (Karnataka)
• MTVPuram (Tamilnadu)
• Equipped with state-of-the-art ICT facilities to receive and transmit programmes in synchronous mode.
• Connected to the main campus with 16Mbps MPLS VPN Links from BSNL
• Provide regular students the flexibility of attending classes at multiple locations as and when considered feasible.
Modes of Delivery
Synchronous: A learning event in which geographically distributed students are engaged via video/ Web
conferencing tools and can simultaneously take part in a discussion.
Semi-Synchronous: Some part of the course content/
interactive sessions is in the form of synchronous
learning, rest of the content is available in on-demand streaming format.
Blended Learning: Blended learning combines delivery
of instruction material via videos that are played in the
classroom, face-to-face mentoring and local hands-on
laboratories/ workshops.
DEI ICT Center: Timarni-Rajaborari
DEI has empowered a cluster of 10 villages in Madhya
Pradesh having an Adivasi population of over 5000 with concept of self-sufficiency, sustainability (eco-
friendliness), provided smart technology intervention,
quality education that is ICT enabled adequate
communication infrastructure.
Connectivity to Remote Tribal Areas: The Rajaborari Experience
• A high speed wireless backhaul network has been established between Timarni and
Mahagoan, and extended to the villages of Rajaborari, Salai,
Gulardhana, Temrubahar and Mogradhana.
• A 16Mbps MPLS VPN link from BSNL connects Timarni to DEI, Dayalbagh.
• Integrated into the DEI LAN, all the services available to
students at DEI main campus are also available to students in the Rajaborari Cluster.
Reaching the last person on the last mile
• Dayalbagh has partnered with BSNL in customizing the
technology to take the E1 radio link up to this cluster of villages.
• Connected to the rest of the
world, the local Adivasis use the internet facility for a variety of ICT services like getting information on government schemes, email, applying for jobs, scholarships, registering and applying for
financial assistance under various government schemes.
Tribals using Mobile Telecom Services Empowering Tribal women through ICT
Base Transceiver Station Deployment at Gulardhana for Mobile Telecommunication Services
University Level Information and Communication Technology Services: Multimedia Laboratory
• EDUSAT Teaching End
• Video Conferencing
• Video Streaming
• Generation of e-content
• Video Archiving facility
• Web support services
• Data Centre Facility
• Technology tracking
Videoconferencing Services for MoU Supported Programmes
Joint Courses via LIVE Video Conferencing offered to IIT Delhi and DEI
• Intelligent Information Processing
• Media Processing
▪ M. Phil. Electronics/Computer Science
▪ Graduate Computer Science
▪ UG Engineering
Prof. Huzur Saran, Dept. of
Computer Science and Engg., IIT New Delhi
ICT Centre Delhi
DEI
IGNOU
Receiving Centre
EDUSAT
Internet
Streaming Servers
Capturing Systems
Polycom Live Delivery Infrastructure
Video& Audio Delivery with Streaming/
Conferencing
• Enterprise Polycom Infrastructure supports Internet based video- conferencing
• One way, authenticated, streaming solution has been implemented specially for low
bandwidth availability at the user end
• Edusat connectivity to 57 centers is available via the mini-hub at IGNOU, Delhi.
Live Delivery Infrastructure
140 TB Network Attached Storage MML Lecture Theatre
Server Room Polycom Multi-conferencing System
57 stations commissioned April 2009
HARNESSING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY:
THE DEI EDUSAT NETWORK
Ludhiana
Chandigarh & Panckula
New Delhi *
DAYALBAGH Jaipur
Murar
Rajaborari Timarni
MTV Puram
Vishakapatnam Secunderabad
Kakinada
Bangalore Roorkee
Kota
Mumbai
Indore
Pune
Nagpur
Kolkata Mirzapur
Varanasi Allahabad
Kanpur
Jhansi Meerut
Muzzafarnagar Saharanpur
Chennai
Madurai Jallandhar Amritsar
Gwalior Shimla Dharamshala
Yammuna NagarAmbala
Dehradun Jammu
Surat
Patna
Vizianagaram Srikakulam
Salem Noida
Derhgaon
Srivilliputtur Nandurbar
Khandwa
Faridabad
Vijaywada
Kurnool
*Delhi –Janakpuri, KarolBagh, Old Delhi,RameshNagar,Shahadra Proddatur
Musapet
Kadapa Hanamakonda
Legend:
Urban Rural
Rural Backward Rural Tribal Headquarters
Technology for Video Streaming
• Based on HLS streaming (HTTP Live Streaming) which has now emerged as a standard in
adaptive bitrate video.
• Streaming Server is cloud based.
• Client is a browser embedded player.
• All software components are open source.
• Login based access.
Live Event
Education in Rural Areas
• Challenges
•
Infrastructure
•
Trained Teachers
•
Required Pedagogy
•
Participatory Learning
•
Teaching Aids
•
Supplementary Learning Material
Student Centered Online Teaching-Learning System (SCOTLS)
• A system of Online Teaching has been designed at DEI in which a teacher at one end can teach online a number of remote students at diverse locations in an interactive manner.
• Launched as part of B.Ed. and M.Ed. Internship programme.
• Has two-way benefit –
(A) providing quality learning experience to under-resourced masses
(B) exposure to prospective teachers to the integration of latest technology tools with pedagogy.
Participatory Learning: Exposure
Providing Exposure to Technology in Rural Areas
Preparation to Use Devices for Participatory Learning
Student Engagement: Models
Teaching End
Student End
Teaching End
Student End
I. Online Teaching
II. Teaching through
Tablets
Teacher Student
Student Centred Online Teaching-Learning System (SCOTLS): Features of the Model
• One tablet per student
• Hypermedia content with video, audio, images and text.
• Seamless integration of real and virtual classroom
• Collaborative whiteboard
• Audio interaction
• Video conferencing chat interaction
• Pop-quiz for instant responses
• Immediate feedback to students
• Anytime access to recorded lectures and multimedia resources.
• Monitoring by supervisors, mentors and administrators.
Harisal, Maharashtra
• Challenges
• Electricity
• Water Bed
• Education
• Connectivity
Digitization of Harisal : A Collaborative venture of DEI, Microsoft
& Maharashtra Government
DEI’s Approach towards Digital Harisal
• Empowerment through:
• Education
• Vocation
• Entrepreneurship
Skill Based Courses at Harisal
• ICT Skill Based Course
• Transmission of class from DEI
main campus to Harisal
MOOCSKENE BHARAT
Massive Open Online Courses on Skilling and Entrepreneurship Network
मुस्काने भारत
e-resources have been created for vocational courses in regional language to facilitate learning
anytime, anywhere and at any stage.
To make every rural and tribal cluster a vibrant hub of entrepreneurship and innovation to create
NaI DISHA
National Incubator for the Development of Innovation and Skills for Holistic Advancement
DAYALBAGH ADIVASI EDUCATION VOCATIONAL & ENTREPRENEURIAL
Integration of Skills at School Level ( KG to Higher Secondary
)Integration of Skills in Higher Education
Community Outreach IiCOuRE
Laboratories
Lab on Land
Virtual (Reality) Lab Simulation Lab
Remote Triggered Lab
Instructor Resource
Audio & Video Multimedia Power Points Cloud
Instructor &
Learner Resource
Question Bank Case Studies Data, information &
Knowledge bank E-books in regional languages
Skill-pedia
MOOCSKENE BHARAT
मुस्काने भारत
Learner’s Resource
Test beds chosen for trials
By Student – For Student enterprises in DEI
Technology Takes Progressive Language Learning Programmes to Virtual Level!
(i-c-n-c-) TALL
• Dayalbagh Educational Institute has established (iNFORMATION-cOMMUNICATION-nEURO-
cOGNITIVE-) Technologies Assisted Language Lab, popularly called “(i-c-n-c-) TALL” to facilitate the
teaching and learning of various languages, and also to encourage interdisciplinary research in the
realms of consciousness, literature and languages.
• Apart from the functions of a conventional
(analogue) language lab, the lab also has advanced Artificial Intelligence Tools, authoring tools for
content creation, guided lesson workshops, languages learning material, etc.
Interdisciplinary Research in Science and Literature at (i-c-n-c-)TALL
• The center encourages interdisciplinary
research in the domains of psycholinguistics, Computational linguistics, Neurolinguistics, science of consciousness, Foreign language teaching, etc.
• To mark the beginning of such initiatives experiments in Neuroaesthetics have been conducted to study the impact of various literary texts on human brain and also
personality using Magnetoencephalography (MEG).
• One of the primary objectives of (i-c-n-c-) TALL is to conserve and disseminate the treasure of Sanskrit language , the language of Gods,
language of transcendental consciousness by using ICT .
(i-c-n-c-) TALL
• The efficacy of Technology Assisted Language Learning has been tested with primary level language learners. The enthusiasm of the children is worth watching and the results are overwhelming.
The Quantum-Nano Centre
• A multidisciplinary center set up under MHRD National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT), with
partners as IIT Kanpur, IIT Delhi and IIT Madras, besides several international collaborators.
• Provides an environment for scientists and
mathematicians to explore the fundamental physical characteristics of quantum systems, to devise and implement prototype quantum computers, and to develop quantum algorithms and novel applications.
• Through a vigorous program of lectures, seminars, and workshops, the Centre stimulates intellectual exchange among students, faculty, and academic partners.
• Videos of all the lectures/ Conferences/ Seminars/
Workshops are available at
http://www.dei.ac.in/dei/quantumNano/index.php/vid eos.
• Magnetically Shielded Chamber with SQUID device (a very sensitive magnetometer to measure extremely subtle magnetic fields)
• Installed at the Quantum Nano Center
2G-5G Laboratory
• Laboratory presently has 2G live test bed and a 3G-trainer kit
where following demonstration can be made:
• Call flow mechanism and usage of different channels during Mobile Originating (MO) and Mobile terminating (MT) Calls through
HLR(Home Login register) and MSC (Master Switching Center)
• Demonstration of mobility of
services through Location Update (LU)
• MO SMS & MT SMS and service messages under different test cases
• Area Covered (500 Acres)
• IP Cameras(265)
• IP Phones Astra (Ericsson) (200)
• Access Control at entry points
• Assured Passive Optical Fiber Connectivity to last mile – 24km
• Cat 6 cabling – 12 Km
• Central and Local Monitoring Stations with 24hrs vigilance
• Local Power from 18 Solar Plants distributed across Campus
• Long Term Storage(30days; 150TB)
• Smart Analytics
• Alarms
Dayalbagh Security Surveillance System:
Dayalbagh Security Surveillance System:
New Optical Fiber Layout
Educational Resource Planning (EdRP)
• The Institute has successfully implemented and put into operation the following as a part of the NMEICT project funded by the MHRD
• Admission System
(http://admission.dei.ac.in:8088/admissionform/account/getApplicantLoginSc reen.htm)
• Course Management System - Course Registration, Examination and Result Processing System. This automates the entire progression from student
registration to enrolment to capturing evaluations to result and degree generation. (http://admission.dei.ac.in:8085/CMS/Flex/CMS_FLEX.html)
• Optical Mark Recognition (OMR) Evaluation System
• Caters to single correct and multiple correct answers.
• Inexpensive – works on photocopied sheets.
• Error Tolerant - does not require precision or color printing.
• Adaptable to all scanner resolutions.
• Interface completely web based.
http://admission.dei.ac.in:8088/admissionform/account/getApplicantLoginScreen.htm
DEI-Central Library Computerization
• Library operations have been computerized using NewGenLib open source software.
• Users can access data of all libraries over the OPAC (Online Public Access Catalogue).
• OPAC of all DEI libraries accessible on campus at
http://10.23.0.50:8080/newgenlibctxt
• Circulation services of all Libraries are computerized and operational with bar-code System.
• 25 Computer Terminals for users.
Central Library 49
OPAC
eResources
• Library is getting near about 5000+ e-journals and Databases of world renowned publishers -
• e-Shodhsindhu - Under this service online access to full text & Databases from 17 reputed
publishers through E-Shodhsindhu viz IEEE, (All Society Periodicals Package AICTE funded (ASPP), ACS (American Chemical Society) , AIP (American Institute of Physics), AR (Annual Review), EPW (Economic and Political Weekly) , ISID (Institute for Studies in Industrial Development Database), IP (Institute of Physics), JGate Plus (JCCC), Nature, Oxford, Project Muse, RSC (Royal Society of
Chemistry), Springer, Taylor and Francis, Web of Science & Wiley.
• Following NDL e-Resources are also available with above –
• World e-Book Library
• South Asia Archive (SAA) {National Licensing (Perpetual)}
• Purchased – Following e-resources are the purchased by library –
• International Dissertations Abstracts Named "ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I"
• ProwessIQ (Prowess for Interactive Querying)
• Membership – Access of DELNET is under Institutional Membership.
Solar Initiatives at DEI
• Taken initiatives in harnessing the renewable energy through Solar thermal and Solar
Photovoltaic (SPV) power plants.
• The institute has Solar Thermal Cooking systems in all the hostels. T
• he whole university campus is powered by 11 Distributed Roof-Top Solar PV power Plants aggregating to a total of 658.2kWp, installed during 2011-2016.
• The micro grid is being converted into a
Smart Micro Grid with centralized monitoring and control of all power plants with the help of a need-based R&D project funded by DST CERI.
• A 200 kWp solar-agriculture farm is being developed in the Dairy campus as part of DST Mission Innovation R&D project.
Solar Plants: Decision Support System
• Audio, Visual and E-mail alerts of various faults / loss of grid / inverter tripping etc.
• Facility to save daily logs as csv files
• Upload the real-time data on a cloud based sql server for logging and analytics.
• Software platform for Cloud based storage and data analytics has been created for the high-resolution data
being generated by remote monitoring system for inverters and loads. All the logs are stored in an sql-server in
Microsoft Azure cloud.
• Development of Data Analytics using the following tools for drawing inferences for decision making is ongoing:
• Microsoft Excel based real-time visualization and comparison of the performance of various plants in real time
• R environment based Data Analytics and Machine Learning tools
• Microsoft Azure based Data Analytics and Machine Learning tools
Automobile Department:
Initiatives in Electric, Hybrid and Autonomous Vehicles
• An Autonomous Car which is a driverless, self-driving, robotic car capable of sensing its
environment and navigating without human input is under development.
• The autonomous car can detect surroundings using a variety of techniques such as radar, GPS, Obstacle Avoidance System, and computer vision.
Under Development
Smart Agriculture
Elevated Solar Photovoltaic Panels combined with agriculture at ground Smart Polyhouse and Crop Production in Polyhouse
IRGA
Photosynthesis measuring System
Soil Moisture Sensor
Hole in the Wall
• Peer Learning: Village children are given free access to use Laptops/
Computers and are allowed to learn on their own with minimal guidance.
• Sessions held Concurrently
with Medical Camps
Telemedicine
• DEI has helped in implementing telemedicine initiatives wherein expert medical opinion is available via e-consultation in video conferencing mode.
• These sessions are integrated into the multi-disciplinary free medical camps that are organized by DEI.
A Glimpse of Telemedicine Consultation at Rajaborari Hospital A Glimpse of Telemedicine Consultation at Rajaborari Hospital
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