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Expansion of Technology Enhanced
Learning Initiatives of Visvesvaraya
Technological University
Prof T.N.Nagabhushan M.E(IISc), Ph.D(IISc)
Special Officer
VTU E-Learning Center
SJCE Campus
Mysore – 570 006
VTU E-Learning initiative
About VTU
 E learning center – activities
 Latest technology – deployment of
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NPTEL & VTU video on a high speed
streaming server for campus access
Proposal – Details
 conclusions
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Visvesvaraya Technological University
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Visvesvaraya Technological University
named after Sir M. Visvesvaraya
Established in 1998 at Belgaum
Has a sprawling 115-acre campus
Has four Regional Offices:
• Bangalore, Belgaum, Gulbarga and
Mysore
Has MOU with IBM, Intel, Asia Electronics
Inc., Ingersoll-Rand, Microsoft, Diamant
Metal plastic of Germany, . SUN micro
systems, Nokia etc
VTU e-Learning Center
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EDUSAT
e-Learning
• e-Content development of selected
courses, processing and hosting
• Video processing, enable working in
distributed multimedia networks
EDUSAT in VTU
Has a full fledged EDUSAT Studio
 Has been operating since 2004
 First in the country to offer
academic
programs to the students
 70 Colleges have SIT
 Remaining 100 colleges have DTH
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VTU E-Learning Center
covers over 170 colleges in the state
 till date 298 experts have delivered live
talks
 3778 sessions
 special talks, CXO speaks,
 Frontier Lecture Series,
 Technology related talks from industry
experts
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VTU E-learning center
Experts lecture is video recorded
 88 courses have both video and soft copy
of the lecture notes
 30 courses are converted into SCORM
compliant material and host on VTU elearning server.
 www.elearning.vtu.ac.in
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New Initiatives : Streaming
Video
Major issues with video deployment
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Storage
Distribution
cost
Scalability
Solutions……..
NPTEL video and VTU video
 Worked with SUN and other IT firms and
have developed VCMS : Video Content
Management Software
 Supports distributed MM technology at
campus network level.
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Current Status
Demonstrated the live working to all
principals of 170 colleges
 in the processes of deploying the
solution phase wise.
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Video clip of the SUN streaming
server
and VCMS screen shots
Proposal to NMEICT
Seeking financial support to meet
various TEL initiative of VTU.
 beneficiary is all students of over
170 colleges affiliated to VTU.
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Project Proposed
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To create e-content and video content of lectures by
VTU staff and experts
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Deployment of e-contents on MOODLE framework
and hosting it on VTU intranet servers
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Implementation of NPTEL video streaming solutions
using peer to peer communications and data transfer
using bit torrent Technology
Setting up of virtual labs to encourage industrial
certifications
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Proposed Project
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Propose to interconnect the affiliated
institutes of Visvesvaraya Technological
University(VTU) Belgaum with OFC
provided by Railtel corporation of India.
This helps in creating a VPN and online
examination of highest standard becomes
a reality.
Establishing Data center to host servers
Support CLOUD computing
Justification of Projects:
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Video streaming of expert lecture on
campus wide network is the most efficient
way of providing learning contents to the
users. At VTU, this is well tested and
validated at small scale. There is a need to
expand it further
Details of the work already done:
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Deployment of streaming server on
campus network and simultaneous access
of video contents of exceptional qualities
on client machines
Objectives:
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To develop video contents of 600+ Courses
offered in undergraduate curriculum of all
branches of Visvesvaraya technological University
To facilitate interaction between faculty member
and the students through online forum
Methodology:
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Studio to be Set up
Streaming and storage servers to be procured
Interconnection of all institutes to Common
Backbone
Major Objectives of Mission
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Development of video courses of all 600+
undergraduate curriculum of Visvesvaraya
technological university by setting up state of the
art studios at VTU e-Learning centre, Mysore
Conversion of video courses into MPEG4 streaming
contents and store them in the Visvesvaraya
technological university main storage repository
Integrating all colleges through Railwire optical fiber
backbone thus creating a homogeneous private
network
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Providing assistance to local colleges on the
management of video contents on their local
campus network by conducting workshops
Releasing new video lectures every six months and
updating to local streaming servers using Bit
torrent technology.
initiate certification programs based on online
learning and online evaluation
development of video library of technical dictionary
Financial Outlay
( Yearwise)
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Budget Proposed for the Project: 20.0 Crores
Year
Recurring
Non-Recurring
(In Crores)
(In Crores)
2009-10
2.0
5.0
7.0
2010-11
2.0
5.0
7.0
2011-12
2.0
4.0
6.0
Total
6.0
14.0
20.0
(In Crores)
Total
Sl.No
Recurring
2009-10
2010-11
2011-12
0.1
0.1
0.1
0.15
0.15
0.15
1.7
1.7
1.7
(In Crores)
(In Crores)
(In Crores)
1
Consumables
2
Traveling
3
Man Power
4
Miscellaneous
0.05
0.05
0.05
Total
2.0
2.0
2.0
Budget Proposed
Sl.No
Non-Recurring
Cost
(In Crores)
1
Offline Studio Establishment
1.0
2
100TB Storage Server
1.5
3
Streaming Server
1.5
4
Video Conversion
10.0
Total
14.0
Thank you