Dear
All,
The role, status
and prestige (but not necessarily pay) of librarians may go high , if they equip themselves with
skills in e-learning technologies so as to grab the emerging opportunities under
National Mission on Education through ICT. The Mission, which
will begin immediately, may offer sufficient opportunities to the librarians
having good exposure to e-learning technologies.
The Mission
purports to promote content generation, computers and connectivity in 18,000
government / private colleges and 419 universities. The mission
proposes to focus on Wiki technologies for content generation. Content
Managements Systems like Drupal, E Course Servers like Moodle, Digital Libraries
like Greenstone etc will have due
role in its activities.
So the Librarians,
who have good knowledge on those technologies, can play a key role in
the digital technology based e-learning initiatives under the
Mission.