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Haresh Bhatt,
SF, Network Division, SAC
EDUSAT Gateway is the entry point to access various collaborative services that are planned and will be planned to
enhance the EDUSAT utilization. It will facilitate the members from different educational organizations like UGC, CEC,
IGNOU, NCERT etc. to join, collaborate and work together to achieve defined goal and objectives. The services can be
accessed both from EDUSAT network as well as Internet.
There could be a number of collaborative services that can be enabled under the EDUSAT gateway. Presently, we have
configured only three services i.e. EDUSAT Gateway itself, EDUSAT Forum and Metadata Archival of Learning Contents. All
these services are web-based and can be accessed through the standard web browser. Users are presented with personalized
and updated information, workflow is supported so that only the authenticated and approved information are reached to the
end-user and any sort of pending action are communicated through back-end emails to the respective service provider.
The features of EDUSAT Gateway like online registration and subscription, Notices, Events and Lecture Schedules announcements,
Feedback & FAQ, Responsibility Management, Interface to specific services etc. are made available to all the
users.
EDUSAT Forum is a platform through which members from different educational institutes can collaborate in terms of
workgroups. There could be a number of workgroups that can be created under this forum. Each workgroup has well defined
goal & objectives, tenure, deliverables, active members, reviewers and observers. Some of the workgroups are Primary School
Education workgroup, Standardization of Learning Content Metadata group, EDUSAT Operanionalisation Group etc. At
forum level facilities like Newsletter and subscription, Article Archival and publishing, Archival of documents that are finalized
by different workgroups, Registration to different workgroups, responsibilities management etc are accessible to all the
forum users irrespective of their workgroup membership. Similar facilities are also enabled at the workgroup level but the
items are confined only to the members of the respective workgroup and are not accessible to the other users. Apart from that,
workgroup members can participate in the important discussion through the Discussion Thread facility and document generation
process through the Document Generation facility that fully automate the workflow of document generation among the
editor, co-author, reviewing committee and approver.
Metadata Archival for Learning Contents facilitate the Content providers to share the information about the Learning
contents. This information is very useful to students, teachers and other users to locate the right learning contents. It includes
registration of content providers, content information archival, retrieval and extensive search facility. Students and teachers
can set their preferences for languages, educational context and discipline, so that they only get the new updates as per their
interest. To make the content information interoperable, we have adopted IEEE LOM 1484 standard to capture the learning
content information.
Rollout phase of operation consists of about 10 working groups concentrating on Roll out, Meta data archival and 1484
customization, Standardization, EDUSAT Information and operation management, EDUSAT Utilisation, End User Interface,
Outreach policy and mechanism and Satellite Technology.
The gateway is already installed on EDUSAT network and its clone will be installed on Internet. Both will be isolated but
will be synchronized from time to time.
The features of EDUSAT Gateway like online registration and subscription, Notices, Events and
Lecture Schedules announcements, Feedback & FAQ, Responsibility Management, Interface to
specific services etc. are made available to all the users.
2 EDUSAT Update Volume : 04, November 2005