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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
INDO US Workshop, October 15-19, 2005 VTU-EDUSAT Conference, September 16-17, 2005 In order to commemorate one year of successful utilizationf VTU-EDUSAT network, ISRO and VTU jointly conducted a two-day conference from Sep tember 16, 2005 at BMS College of Engineering, Bangalore. The objective of the conference was mainly to create awareness among various stakeholders in higher education in Karnataka on VTU-EDUSAT programmes. Mr. G. Madhavan Nair, Chairman, ISRO, inaugurated the conference in the august presence of Mrs. Sobha Nambisan, Principal Secretary (Higher Education), Government of Karnataka and Dr. K. Balaveera Reddy, Vice Chancellor, VTU. The conference was attended by several delegates of VTU and ISRO.Having gained experience in utilizing the EDUSAT network for one year, VTU is poised to transmit about 470 live sessions covering eight full-semester subjects, technology-specific courses, soft skill and CXO Speaks programmes from September 16, 2005. The workshop on Utilisation of <strong>Space</strong> based Resources for Enhancing Science Education in India was jointly organised by Indo-US Forum for Science and Technology (IUSSTF), New Delhi along with Homi Bhabha <strong>Centre</strong> for Science Education/Tata Institute for Fundamental Research, Mumbai at Aurangabad during October 15-19, 2005. The workshop was organised with a view to bring together the experts from the United States and India to discuss strategies for the utilisation of resources available or developed in the respective countries to enhance the science education in India. In this perspective, the EDUSAT network was demonstrated by crating the teaching end at Aurangabad and one of the receiving end at Science City, Ahmedabad. Director DECU inaugurated the Indo US workshop from Science City, Ahmedabad. On second day of the conference, students were invited to interact with the scientist present at Aurangabad. In both the days the students as well as teachers from Kendriya Vidhyalaya, SAC and different schools under Gujarat Secondary and Higher S econdary Education Board (GSHSEB) participated in three hours long interactive session on Earth, Moon and Mars. The interaction between the teaching end and the receiving end was satisfactory. EDUSAT Update Volume : 04, November 2005 3
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