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| Sanjeev Singh | Educational Resource Planning (ERP): Transforming Higher Education through FOSS |
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| Institute/Affiliation | University of Delhi, South Campus |
| Abstract | In the last few years, ICT approach has gathered increasing interests, both in formal and non-formal higher education system of India. As some of ICT solutions in different application domains have achieved huge success in their respective area of concern. Academic interests in this collaborative, community driven development has also grown considerably, arising from various backgrounds. In India, the higher education system is governed mainly by two regulatory bodies viz. UGC (University Grants Commission) for University system and AICTE (All India Council for Technical Education) for higher technical education. It is worth noticing that formal higher education, under University system is almost 100% funded by UGC or state government; while the government supports only 20% of the technical education and rest 80% of higher technical education is run by the private institutions. These institutions of diverse academic infrastructure normally procure the technology to make their infrastructure richer rather than adopting it as per their curriculum requirements. This paper intends to show the potential of ICT solutions backed by open source to make significant contribution in the academic institutions of plural academic and financial structure. One of the first major steps for higher education that plan to act in this context is to accept that open source approach has its own communication culture. It is also illustrated on the basis of a case study in which a open source supported ICT framework was implemented to build a new and much improved learning environment. The author hope that the open source supported ICT approach will encourage more and more institutions to officially adopt this much affordable solution to strengthen academic communities and achieve higher academic benchmarks. |