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ePathshala: Learning on the Go
Fig 1: Status of ePathshala as on 2 April, 2018
Total visitors on ePathshala – 2,85,57,718
Digital India is a campaign launched by the Government of India to ensure that Government services are made available to citizens electronically by improving online infrastructure and by increasing Internet connectivity or by making the country digitally empowered in the field of technology.The Digital India campaign was launched by Honourable Prime Minister of India Sh. Narendra Damodardas Modi on 1 July 2015. The initiative includes plans to connect rural areas with high-speed internet networks. The vision of Digital India has centered around three key areas. These include:
● The creation of digital infrastructure as a utility to every citizen
● Promote e-Governance, MIS and Delivery of services on demand
● Digital empowerment of citizens through Digital literacy and skill development With a view to realise the goals of Digital India in the school education and teacher education sector and to reach out to all the people of India, the National Council of Educational Research and Training took the initiative of providing its resources on the web and mobile platforms. Through a special license, it has
liberated access to all the digital contents including e-books. One can download and share the collections of e-textbooks for all classes and all areas of the curriculum (classes 1 to 12), supplementary reading material, resources for teachers, teacher educators and parents, in English, Hindi, Sanskrit and Urdu.
Supported by a web portal, http://epathshala.gov.in and mobile apps available for the Android, Apple and Windows environments, the e-contents including digital textbooks are being made available and readily accessed across the country. The popularity and impact factor of the epathshala website and mobile app is evident from the figure given as under:
About ePathshala
A platform for students, teachers, teacher educators and parents:
The objective of the project was not only to provide free and easy access to the digital books, but also to involve parents, teachers and teacher educators in helping the children achieve desired/ expected levels of learning. Resources specifically aimed at parents are to help them understand and participate in quality improvement of their children's education. Resources for teachers to tailor their teaching-learning to diverse needs of children have been categorized and deployed.
Contains a variety of educational resources for all:
The collections include digital textbooks, supplementary readers, exemplar problems, audio and video resources for students; teacher’s guides and teaching resources for teachers; journals, policy documents
and other scholarly resources for researchers and educators; resources for parents to help them appreciate and support their own children's education. These resources are available in Hindi, Urdu, Sanskrit and English.
Textbooks as digital books:
The textbooks have been converted to the EPUB 3.0 format. Supported by a specially designed EPUB reader, the text can be selected, the page zoomed, portions highlighted or bookmarked and the screen, font and colour changed to cater to the needs of all children including children with special needs. Included in the collection will be audio books and machine readable books in offline mode as well using Text to Speech (TTS) application.
To enable a teacher to display the books in class and to facilitate reading on a regular computer, the books have also been made available as flip books with a variety of special features to enhance the ease of reading. These books are available through laptops and desktops as flipbooks.
The present collection spans all textbooks from classes I to XII, covering all subjects of the school curriculum. In all 364 titles in English, Hindi and Urdu mediums are included.
Mobile Apps for the ePathshala:
ePathshala Apps for the Android, iOS as well as Windows platforms have been released to enable free and universal access to the ePathshala collections. The app interface is also available in English, Hindi and Urdu. These free apps can be downloaded from the app stores.
Rating of epathshala app on iOS (Apple) and Android (Google) play stores underlines its impact on users:
Status shows about 13,78,88 Apps Downloaded Status shows about 75,686 Apps Downloaded
Availability, Dissemination and Impact of ePathshala web portal and mobile app
The web portal and the apps were released on 7th November, 2015 at the edNEXT Conference by Mrs. Smriti Zubin Irani, the then Hon'ble Minister of Human Resource Development, Govt. of India.
• In all 650 epubs and 504 Flipbooks (etextbooks, teachers handbook, manuals and supplementary reading materials) available on epathshala. In all 3285 videos and audios are available on the epathshala.
• The ePathshala portal has 2,85,57,718 visitors.
• The portal had 12,585,079 Youtube views • The app has a rating of 4.5 out of 5 on the Google play store, 3 out of 5 on Apple Store and 4.5
out of 5 on Windows store. • In all 13,78,88 users have downloaded the app from Google play store 75,686 from Apple Store
and 33,358 from Windows store. • The app is available in Hindi, Urdu and English and categorises the resources to meet the
requirements of students, teachers, educators and parents. • The app interface will be available in 22 Indian Languages (VIII Schedule Languages) very soon. • Created Core team (State Resource Group) in 31 states/UTs covering more than 800 persons from
SCERT, School Boards, DIETs, CTEs, IASEs and Schools to facilitate digitisation of textbooks and creating of e-contents for ePathshala. Haryana state has digitised textbooks and developed a mobile app “Meri ePustak” to disseminate the digitised textbooks. Other states/UTs are in the process of digitisation. States like Andhra Pradesh, Delhi, Karnataka, Manipur, Mizoram, Tamil Nadu and Uttar Pradesh have started digitising their textbooks and have altogether submitted 150 textbooks on ePathshala.
• It is planned to integrate QR codes and augmented realities to NCERT text books during 2018-19. Action taken to popularize ePathshala - Dissemination through Trainings/ Orientation programs/ Conferences/ Seminars/ Festivals/ ICT Fair/ Exhibitions, etc.
Multipronged strategies were followed to reach out to the clientele groups through workshops, extension lectures, training, orientation, seminar, conferences, exhibitions, festivals, fairs, etc. through face to face and distance mode:
• Oriented 23 delegations from Sri Lanka from 20-27, Dec. 2015. • Demonstrated epathshala Website and App to 30,000 Students, teachers, parents during
JNNSMEE at Kochi, Kerala 16-22 Dec. 2015. • Oriented 100 Students, Teacher and Educators from CCS University of Meerut on 6th
January, 2016. • Oriented 60 Teachers from J&K, HP, Punjab and Haryana at RIE-Ajmer on 12th January,
2016. • Oriented 50 Teacher Educators of Telengana on 14 Jan, 2016. • Oriented 75 KRPs of Science and Maths from Maharashtra at Nagpur on 16th January,
2016. • Demonstrated epathshala Website and App to Students, Teachers, Educators and General
Public during World Book Fair at Pragati Maidan, New Delhi from 9th to 17th January, 2016.
• Created an advertisement on epathshala to be printed on the Books and Journals : the Government of Rajasthan has printed epathshala advertisement on their textbooks and CIET has printed it on National ICT Awards booklet and NCERT Calendar for the year 2016. Also circulated the advertisement among all SCERTs.
• Oriented 75 students and faculty of Kurukshetra University, Kurukshetra, Haryana on 23 January, 2016
• Shared with Educational Planners and Administrators of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana on 29 January, 2016 at Hyderabad
• Shared with a Five (05) member delegation from the Republic of Korea, Seoul at NCERT, New Delhi on 02 February, 2016
• Oriented 47 Teachers and Teachers Educators from schools, SCERTs and DIETs (Delhi, Haryana, Punjab, Odisha, Chattisgarh and Uttarakhand) on 08 February, 2016
• Oriented 75 students, Faculty of RIE-Bhubneshwar, SCERT, IASEs and RMSA-Odisha from 8 – 12 February, 2016
• Shared the details of e-pathshala during a conference at Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore on 10 February, 2016
• Oriented 25 Mathematics Teacher Educators from DIETs of Jammu & Kashmir, Himachal Pradesh, Punjab on 10 February, 2016
• Oriented 1400 Principals of Schools under the agies of Vidya Bharati Akhil Bharatiya Shiksha Sansthan on 13 February, 2016
• Oriented 21 Teacher Educators of SCERTs and DIETs from Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Uttar Pradesh on 13 and 15 February, 2016
• Disseminated about e-pathshala through social media (Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter) and print media (Bangalore Mirror)
• Shared with 100 Teacher Educators of different Colleges of Teacher Education (CTEs), Faculty from PG-Departments, M.Ed. students and research scholars from University of Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh on 18-19 February, 2016
• Oriented 10 State Core Team members (Andhra Pradesh, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Karnataka, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tamil Nadu, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh) on Digitisation of Textbooks and sharing those on epathshala from 18-22 March, 2016 and 28 March to 1 April, 2016.
• Oriented 125 Primary School Teachers of South Delhi Municipal Corporation on 10 May, 2016 on features and use of ePathshala.
• ePathshala popularised through NIOS Community Radio Station: "epathshala" aired on National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) commissioned Community Radio Station (CRS) FM 91.2 Mhz from 12.00pm to 1.00pm on 17 May, 2016. Delhi and NCR audience were benefited
• Oriented 26 Delegates From 19 countries, participant of 32nd Diploma in Educational Planning and Administration, organised by NUEPA on 5 April 2016.
• Oriented 30 Education Officers of Sri Lanka participated in Capacity Building Programme in NUEPA on 20 May 2016.
• Oriented a group of 12 President’s award winning school teachers of the country on 24 May 2017.
• Oriented 17 participants of ‘Promoting Quality Learning in Science at upper primary level in ST dominated District of Chhattisgarh; A Framework’ on 4 July 2017.
• Oriented 30 Education Officers of Sri Lanka attending ‘Capacity Building Programme on Strategic Planning and Quality Development of Education in NUEPA on 8 July 2017.
• Oriented a delegation of 20 participants from 11 countries in NUEPA on 22 July 2017. • Oriented a delegation of 09 participants from Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia
on 26 July 2017. • Oriented 12 National ICT Awardees from all over the country on 5 September 2016. • Oriented 100 Students and 6 faculty members of DIET, R.K. Puram, New Delhi on 7
September 2016. • Oriented 97 Students and 08 faculties of the Indian Institute of Teacher Education,
Gandhinagar, Gujarat on 20 september 2016. • Oriented 19 Teacher Educators from Gadag, Karnataka on 22 September 2016 • Oriented 100 Students and 5 teachers of Bal Bal Bharati, New Delhi on 26 October 2016. • Oriented 23 students of Post-Graduate Diploma Programme in NUEPA on 26 October
2016. • Oriented 200 participants of International ICT Forum organised jointly bu CIET-NCERT
and UNESCO, w.e.f. October - 4 November 2016. • Oriented 35 students and 4 faculty members of SNDT, Mumbai on 15 November 2017. • Oriented 47 students and 4 faculty members of DIET, Dilshad Garden on 7 December
2016. • Oriented 40 participants in the Conference of SCERT/SIET directors organised by
Teacher Education Department on 19 december 2016. • Oriented 30 Education Officers from Sri Lanka on 28 December 2016 • Oriented 30 participants in ICT Training for SCERT Faculty (organised by Central
University of Jammu) on 9 January 2017. • Oriented 84 participants in the National Outreach Program, organised by DEGSN 18
January 2017. • Oriented 200 students and 4 faculty members of Delhi College of Education, Karnal
Road on 2 February 2017. • Oriented 25 students of Central Institute of Education, Delhi University on 3 February
2017. • Oriented 85 students and 4 faculty members of Army Institute of Education, Greater
Noida, Gautam Budh Nagar, Uttar Pradesh 8 February 2017. • Oriented 200 students and 25 faculty members of SCERT Chandigarh, (Organised at
Chandigarh UT) on 8 - 10 February 2017. • Oriented 23 students and 4 faculty members of RPG B.Ed. College, Lucknow on 10
February 2017. • Oriented 100 students and 5 faculty members of Lingyas’ Lalita Devi Institute of
Management and Sciences (LLDIMS), Mandi, New Delhi (organised by LLDIMS, Mandi, New Delhi on 16 February 2017.
• Oriented 97 students and 3 faculty members of Guru Ram Dass College of Education, Shahdara, New Delhi on 17 February 2017.
• Oriented 120 BEd students and faculty from Jagannath Institute of Management Sciences, New Delhi on 28 February 2017.
• Oriented 147 D.El.Ed students and 5 faculty members from Vidya Training Institute, CP, New Delhi on 1 March 2017.
• Oriented 94 BEd students and faculty from IP University, New Delhi on 6 March 2017.
• Oriented 75 BEd students and 5 faculty members from BLS, Bahadurgarh, Haryana on 15 March 2017.
• Oriented 80 BEd students of Amity University, Saket Campus, New Delhi on 22 March 2017.
• Oriented 15 MA Education students from JMI, New Delhi on 24 March 2017. • Oriented 150 students from KIRAS, New Delhi on 27 March 2017. • Oriented 60 BSC. and M.Sc Nursing students from RVS College of Nursing,
Coimbatore, New Delhi on 5 May 2017. • Oriented 10 MEd interns from Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, New Delhi on 10 October 2017. • Oriented 70 KRPs at RIE Ajmer in the Training program for Rajasthan state during 25 -
29 October 2017. • Oriented 100 Army Institute of Education, Greater Noida students and Faculty on
8 November 2017. • Oriented K.R. Mangalam institute students on 9 November 2017. • Oriented 150 DElEd students and 5 faculty members from Vidya Training
Institute, CP, New Delhi on 15 November 2017. • Oriented NUEPA PGDEPA participants on 17 November 2017. • Oriented 65 students and Faculty of B.ED from Ginni Devi Institute of Education,
Ghaziabad on 1 December 2017. • Oriented 20 MEd interns from JMI and DU, New Delhi from 18 December - 8 January
2018. • Oriented teachers from CTSA governed school teachers on 1 January 2018. • Oriented 70 Key Resource Persons of Elementary and Secondary level Aadarsh
Vidyalay teachers at RIE Bhubneshwar from 15 January- 19 January 2018. . • Oriented MSc 1st year nursing students of Rufaida College of Nursing, Jamia
Hamdard, New Delhi on 23 January 2018. • Oriented DIET Dilshad garden students and Faculty on 1 February 2018. • Oriented teachers and students from Jain Vishva Bharti Ladnun, Rajasthan during
10 -12 Feb 2018. • Oriented 80 BEd students of Amity University, Saket Campus, New Delhi on 28
February 2018. • Oriented 45 DM School teachers at RIE Bhopal in the training program during 5 -
10 March 2018, • Oriented the participants in the training program at Central University of
Rajasthan during 12 -14 March 2018. • Oriented SCERT Chandigarh Faculty during January 2018. • Organisation of 22nd AICEAVF and ICT Mela during the Month of February
2018. • Oriented 35 Faculty members of IGCTU, Amarkantak. • Presentation held during the National Science Congress and National
Conference on Reaching the Unreached through Science and Technology at HPU, Shimla on 31st March 2018.
• Oriented about 100 faculty members at Sanskrit Vidyapeeth, Agartala, Tripura from 22 - 28 March 2018.
• Oriented State Resource Groups (SRG) Members of States/ UTs as per following
details: Sr. No.
Phase
State/UTs
Dates
No. of Participants
1 Phase I Northern Region
Jammu and Kashmir
04th-08th Dec 2017
21
2 Phase I Northern Region
Punjab
04th-08th Dec 2017
12
3 Phase I Northern Region
Himachal Pradesh
04th-08th Dec 2017
11
4 Phase I Northern Region
UT of Chandigarh
04th-08th Dec 2017
7
5 Phase I Northern Region
Rajasthan
04th-08th Dec 2017
10
6 Phase I Northern Region
Haryana
04th-08th Dec 2017
6
7 Phase I Northern Region
Uttar Pradesh
04th-08th Dec 2017
13
8 Phase I Northern Region
Uttarakhand
04th-08th Dec 2017
7
9 Phase II Eastern Region
West Bengal
11th- 15th Dec 2017
10
10 Phase II Eastern Region
Jharkhand
11th-15th Dec 2017
11
11 Phase II Eastern Region
Bihar
11th-15th Dec 2017
2
12 Phase II Eastern Region
Odisha
11th-15th Dec 2017
11
13 Phase III Western Region
Madhya Pradesh
11th- 15th Dec 2017
14
14 Phase III Western Region
Maharashtra
11th- 15th Dec 2017
13
15 Phase III Western Region
Goa
11th- 15th Dec 2017
9
16 Phase III Western Region
Chhattisgarh
11th - 15th Dec 2017
20
17 Phase IV Southern Region
Telangana
08th - 12th Jan 2018
5
18 Phase IV Southern Region
Tamil Nadu
08th - 12th Jan 2018
15
19 Phase IV Southern Region
UT of Puducherry
08th - 12th Jan 2018
13
20 Phase IV Southern Region
Karnataka
08th- 12th Jan 2018
19
21 Phase IV Southern Region
Kerala
08th- 12th Jan 2018
14
22 Phase IV Southern Region
UT of Lakshadweep
08th-12th Jan 2018
2
23 Phase V North East Region
Assam
22nd-27th Jan 2018
10
24 Phase V North East Region
Manipur
22nd-27th Jan 2018
47
25 Phase V North East Region
Meghalaya
22nd-27th Jan 2018
4
26 Phase V North East Region
Nagaland
22nd-27th Jan 2018
12
27 Phase VI Andaman and Nicobar Administration
Andaman and Nicobar Administration
05th-09th Feb 2018
62
Monitoring Mechanism
• A 3 member team (faculty, web designer and research fellow) created to work on feedback from users, analysis and work to make the App and Website user friendly. For example chapters in various books are being redesigned as e-pub/ Flipbook and replaced based on the feedback on readability of font, diagrams, images, Text-to-Speech (TTS), etc. from the users. Non-Unicode books are converted to Unicode with support from
researchers of IIT and DAISY Foundation. Next target is to integrate e-resources, QR Codes, augumented reality to NCERT books.
Plans for extension and dissemination
• Initiated activities to convert all the textbooks as e-books developed by 48 State Boards / 33 SCERTs/ SIEs in phased manner and upload on epathshala. So far oriented 31 state SRGs and converted 150 books.
• Produced two promotional videos and many radio jingles on epathshala for telecast/broadcast on various channels and disseminate on social media networking sites
• Created a What’sApp group on epathshala and shared statistics and events related to epathshala with states/UTs
Branding of ePathshala:
Performance Indicators for Teachers (PINDICS): Mobile App by NCERT-DTE
This app has been designed to facilitate school teachers at Elementary Education level (Classes I to VIII) to assess their own performance and ensure necessary help for their Continuous Professional Development (CPD).
Parakh Mobile App for Third Party Evaluation of ICT@ School Scheme implementation
Parakh comprises questionnaires for respondents including all stakeholders like principals, teachers, students and parents/community. The aim is to have a thorough evaluation of the implementation of ICT @ School Scheme; in terms of ICT infrastructure that exists in the schools covered under the scheme and the level of ICT integration in teaching learning process. Currently the app is under utilisation for Third Party Evaluation of ICT@School scheme in the state of NCT of Delhi where 1225 schools have been covered under the scheme.
ePathshala is Available on GOIs UMANG APP of Govt. of India
The Govt. of India has launched a mega mobile app ie. Unified Mobile Application for New Age Governance (UMANG) on 23rd November 2013. Epathshala is also available on UMANG. There are about 228276 users using epathshala services on UMANG.
ePathshala Kishor Manch app for dissemination of SWAYAM PRABHA-DTH TV Programmes and Obtaining Feedback.
This Mobile app is developed to popularise the educational contents telecast on SWAYAM PRABHA DTH-TV Channel (24 x 7), ie. Kishor Manch and obtain feedback from all the stakeholders in School and Teacher Education.
Analytics on ePathshala: Active Users and overview
ePathshala in the Press: Publicity of ePathshala in News Networks
Coverage on Dainik Baskar-Udaipur edition 16 February 2017
Publicity of ePathshala in India Today, New
Delhi Publicity of ePathshala by PTI, New Delhi
Publicity of ePathshala in Hindustan Times, Chandigarh
Publicity of ePathshala on NCERT Calendar
Publicity of ePathshala in the National ICT Award Booklet-2014-2015
Publicity through Calendar and Standees on ePathshala
ePathshala on NCERT Publications
Article published in the Commonwealth Education Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), Commonwealth of Learning (COL) Newsletter of January 2018
Sri Lanka News, March 2018
