AICTE Research Materials Now Accessible Abroad

New Delhi : Jan, 2023: The All India Council for Technical Training (AICTE) has adopted the Artistic Frequent Licences (Attribution-Non Industrial-Share Alike 4.0) which is able to assist making the AICTE examine materials simply accessible for each Indian in addition to abroad college students. The license has been adopted in alignment with the UNESCO decision dated November 25, 2019 (Paris, France), on Open Instructional Assets (OER).

This additionally makes the AICTE examine materials now Open Eduational Assets compliant, which not solely respects the mental property rights of the copyright proprietor but in addition supplies permissions granting the general public the rights to entry, re-use, re-purpose, adapt and redistribute academic supplies.

Presently, the license has been adopted for the II 12 months books uploaded in e-Kumbh portal in English in addition to different Indian Languages. In future, the remaining books of II 12 months and books of III & IV 12 months, in English in addition to 12 different Indian Languages will even be launched beneath the above license.

The above licensing is in alignment with the Sustainable Growth Targets (SDGs) 4 – High quality Training, as enshrined by United Nations to remodel our world and allow hundreds of scholars, college and establishments internationally to make use of high quality engineering books developed by AICTE beneath the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

Professor T. G. Sitharam, Chairman, AICTE stated that the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensing to the AICTE books will allow hundreds of thousands of the Indian and abroad college students to entry the standard materials developed by AICTE for his or her examine and classroom instructing. “It would enable others to repeat and redistribute the fabric in any medium or format, remix, remodel and construct upon the fabric for any non-commercial function,” the chairman stated.

The (AICTE) had initiated technical e book writing scheme within the 12 months 2021, in alignment with the Nationwide Training Coverage (NEP) 2020, to offer the engineering course materials in 12 completely different Indian Languages – Hindi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Assamese, Urdu and Malayalam.

AICTE had began unique e book writing in English for the primary 12 months after which its translation in 12 Indian languages, publish unique writing, as per AICTE’s mannequin curriculum and Final result-based Training Mannequin.

AICTE additionally developed an AICTE e-Kumbh portal for importing e-books after completion. The e-Kumbh portal was launched by the Hon’ble President of India at Bhubaneswar in November 2022, within the gracious presence of Hon’ble Governor of Odisha, Hon’ble Chief Minister of Odisha and Hon’ble Training Minister, Govt. of India together with different dignitaries.

There are 88 programs, 42 diploma and 46 diploma ranges within the II 12 months and most of those technical books have been written by eminent authors from IITs, NIT and so on.