Later, when the British arrived in India, English education was popularised with the help of the European missionaries. Thereafter, Western education has made steady improvement in the country. Hundreds of universities were established and thousands of colleges were affiliated to them. Now India has scores of colleges in every discipline and has positioned itself comfortably as a country that provides quality higher education to its people in specific and to the world in general.

However,because of so many factors, the expense for education (especially professional education) has gone up to very high levels and poor families find it very difficult to send their children for higher and professional education. Hence, the free and open curriculum of WikiEducator becomes important.

It is a very difficult task to set standards for curricula as knowledge is changing day by day, and now the education curricula are highly depended on place and accessibility factors. Country specific variations are required in the studies on Agriculture, History, Literature and some Vocational subjects.

However, it has to be attempted because:

1. . It will popularize the use of open and free content on it.
2. . The services of the voluntary content developers can be led in a more structured way.

Please see the Qualification Framework Project Node for further details

This is a space for online discussions and support to the National Agencies that are involved in the development of a National Qualifications Framework for India. Please visit and add your views, suggestions and experiences at:- National Qualifications Framework

Here you can start new project pages related to online ODL, you can link the existing ODL pages/projects, start discussion and seek advice/opinions.

We would also appreciate if you can be a part of Team India to lead and direct this India Node on WikiEducator.

If you are new to Wikieducator, don't worry, there is online wikieducator tutorial to help you round the clock. WikiEducator online tutorial is a classical example for how online ODL lessons can be developed and arranged. Please visit the tutorial pages right now…

All the friends in the wiki community are requested to add links to the interesting project development activities here...

Friendship…thoughts…projects… Click here to read an intersting Skype Chat between Randy Fisher, Canada and Anil Prasad, India

Indian Candidates for the first elected WE Council

Dr. Pankaj Khare & Dr. Savithri Singh are contesting to represent Indian Wiki Educators in the First Elected Wiki Educator Council.

The election process for the first elected WikiEducator Council is in progress. Campaigning began on 1 August 2008 and ends 17:00 on 31 August 2008. Voting commences 9:00 on 1 September 2008 and ends 9:00 on 15 September 2008. Results of the election to be announced on or before 30 September 2008 (all times are Pacific time).

For details of election process please visit the Election Pages from here..

PCF5 London

Images of some beautiful moments from the WE community life at PCF5, London is available here...

PCF6 will be at Kochi, Kerala, India in 2010. IGNOU will be the co-host.

Launching of L4C campaign for teachers & release of a joint statement on Oct 2nd 2008

Dr.Ramakrishnan Srinivasan , a very enthusiastic WE Ambassador from Karnataka has proposed to release a joint statement by the WE community members based on the theme "A computer literate, internet enabled teacher is better equipped to create nation-building generation" on the forthcoming Teachers Day.

After discussions with community members and COL & CEMCA officials during PCF5 held in London from 13th to 18th July, 2008 it has been decided to arrange an official launch of L4C (Learning for Content) campaign in India focusing teachers and to issue a joint statement from the WEs in India based on the theme "A computer literate, internet enabled teacher is better equipped to create nation-building generation" on October 2nd 2008 in New Delhi through CEMCA. Two L4C workshops are scheduled at Acharya Narendra Dev College in early October 08. Interested people may contact Savithri Singh .

The page for collaborative development of the statement and planning the communication strategy and follow up actions is available from here L4C India Campaign 2008 & a Joint Statement Please join hands to make this innovative proposal a great success.

Living Heritage proposal for a Page on Indian Calendar marking culturally significant days and events. Living Heritage : Indian Calendar

Content Development Workshop in Tamil Nadu, India

A collaborative course development to help VUSSC

A collaborative MHRM Course development is being planned to help the VUSSC project of COL All WE friends may please visit the Project page from here and contribute content.

Induction Programme for Elementary Teacher Educators

An innovative project demands attention

Induction Programme for Teacher Educators is a collaborative development of a web-based programme for teacher educators who are working in the District Institutes of Education and Training (DIET) in India. The programme is a collaborative work of the Regional Institute of Education (RIE), Mysore and the Department of State Education Research and Training (DSERT), Bangalore. The peer team consists of teacher educators from both these institutions, the University Departments of Education and the DIET Faculty.

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