DIKSHA PLATFORM

DIKSHA PLATFORM

WHY IN NEWS ?

• Recently, The National e­Gover­nance Division (NeGD) of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technolo­gy (MeitY) is set to inte­grate Personalised Adap­tive Learning (PAL) into its existing Digital Infrastruc­ture for Knowledge Shar­ing (DIKSHA) platform.

MORE ABOUT THE NEWS :

• The National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) has sought the MeitY’s expertise in facilitating PAL for DIKSHA.
• In an example of how PAL works, if a student of Class 9 is learning the Pythagoras theorem and makes a calculation mistake, the AI learning system flags it and loops the student back to a basic video of how to make the calculation.
• In some States, private players are already administering PAL, which works on AI or Artificial Intelligence, but budget constraints have been an obstacle.

ABOUT DIKSHA PORTAL:

• DIKSHA is the platform for providing quality e-content for school education in States/UTs and QR coded Energized Textbooks for all grades (one nation, one digital platform).

• DIKSHA complies with World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.0 level AA.
• This enables people with visual impairments to access the website using assistive technologies, such as screen readers.
• Special e-content for visually and hearing impaired is developed on Digitally Accessible Information System (DAISY) and in sign language on NIOS website/ YouTube.
• In all 3,520 textbook based ISL videos have been recorded, out of these 597 textbook based on ISL videos are uploaded on DIKSHA.
• A 10,000 word ISL dictionary has been uploaded on DIKSHA and 3,474 audio books chapters have been developed and uploaded on DIKSHA.

FEATURES OF DIKSHA PORTAL :

Here are some important features of DIKSHA portal for easy access of students:

1. QR Code – National Digital Infrastructure for Teachers and students can be accessed after scanning the QR code provided in their NCERT books. After scanning the QR code, the portal will come up with suggestions and topics that you want to study.
2. Language – The portal is accessible in English and varied languages that include Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Telugu and so (18 languages). You can choose any language depending upon your comfort and convenience.
3. Location-based – The portal would first ask for the location to which you belong. For example, you choose Delhi as an option, it would further ask you to choose ‘sub-location’ means in which locality of Delhi you reside. Accordingly, it will show you the courses that are going on in that region from which you can choose the desired course as per your skill set.
4. Class Based – DIKSHA portal requires a user to choose the class whose study material has to be accessed. Click on the standard whose study material you wish to access and enter the SUBMIT button.

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