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Sitaram said the move will enable lakhs of Indian and foreign students to access quality material developed by AICTE for their studies and classroom teaching (Representational Image).
AICTE has adopted Creative Commons License which will help in making its study material easily accessible to both Indian as well as foreign students.
All India technical council Education (AICTE) has adopted Creative Commons License which will help in making its study material easily accessible to both Indian as well as foreign students.
The Creative Commons license is one of several public copyright licenses that enable the free distribution of otherwise copyrighted “works”. It is used when an author wants to give other people the right to share, use, and build on the work they have created.
The license is adopted in line with the UNESCO Resolution on Open Educational Resources (OERs) of November 25, 2019 (Paris, France).
“It also makes the AICTE study material now in line with Open Educational Resources, which not only respects the intellectual property rights of the copyright owner, but also provides rights for educational access, reuse, re-purpose, adaptation and redistribution to the public.” material,” AICTE chairman TG Seetharam said in a statement.
“At present, the license has been adopted for second year books uploaded in English as well as other Indian languages in the e-Kumbh portal. In future, the remaining books of 2nd year and books of 3rd and 4th year will be released under license in English as well as in 12 other Indian languages.
Sitaram said the move would help lakhs of Indian and foreign students to have access to quality material developed by AICTE for their studies and classroom teaching. “This will allow others to copy and redistribute, remix, transform and create content for any non-commercial purpose in any medium or format,” the chairman said.
AICTE launches technical book writing scheme to provide engineering course material in 12 different Indian languages – Hindi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, in 2021 in line with National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 Was. Gujarati, Assamese, Urdu and Malayalam.
AICTE had started writing the original book in English for the first year as per its model curriculum and outcome-based education model and then translated it into 12 Indian languages after writing the original.
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