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Pinning the Badge: by Nishant Shah — published Mar 19, 2012 — last modified May 08, 2015 12:34 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Researchers at Work, digital pluralism, Digital Natives
In a world of competition, badging provides a holistic way of grading and learning, where individual talents are realised and the knowledge of the group is used.
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P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in India: by Puthiya Purayil Sneha — published Dec 30, 2016 — last modified Dec 31, 2016 05:56 AM — filed under: Higher Education, Digital Knowledge, CIS Papers, Digital Humanities, Education Technology, Mapping Digital Humanities in India, Digitisation, Digital Scholarship, RAW Research, Researchers at Work
It gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices in arts and humanities scholarship, both emerging and established, in India. Beginning with an understanding of Digital Humanities as a 'found term' in the Indian context, the study explores the discussion and debate about the changes in humanities practice, scholarship and pedagogy that have come about with the digital turn. Further it inquires about the spaces and roles of digital technologies in the humanities, and by extension in the arts, media, and creative practice today; transformations in the objects and methods of study and practice in these spaces; and the shifts in the imagination of the ‘digital’ itself, and its linkages with humanities practices.
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The Digital Classroom: Social Justice and Pedagogy: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 23, 2011 — last modified May 08, 2015 12:36 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Digital Natives, Featured, New Pedagogies, Researchers at Work, Digital Pluralism
What happens when we look at the classroom as a space of social justice? What are the ways in which students can be engaged in learning beyond rote memorisation? What innovative methods can be evolved to make students stakeholders in their learning process? These were some of the questions that were thrown up and discussed at the 2 day Faculty Training workshop for participant from colleges included in the Pathways to Higher Education programme, supported by Ford Foundation and collaboratively executed by the Higher Education Innovation and Research Application and the Centre for Internet and Society, Bangalore.
Located in Digital Natives / Pathways to Higher Education
Learn it Yourself: by Nishant Shah — published Dec 02, 2011 — last modified May 14, 2015 12:08 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge
The peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.
Located in Digital Natives / Pathways to Higher Education / Blog
First Odia Wikipedia Education Program to be Rolled Out: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 30, 2012 — last modified Dec 14, 2012 12:17 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
Odia Wikipedians gathered at the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Dhenkanal on November 8, 2012 to start the first Odia Wikipedia Education Program. This program aims to bring students edit articles on Odia Wikipedia through a series of assessments by professors. The local community members from Nalconagar would be supporting the four month program.
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An Odia Wikipedia Workshop at KMBB College, Bhubaneswar: by Subhashish Panigrahi — published Nov 19, 2012 — last modified Dec 07, 2012 10:40 PM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Workshop, Video, Openness
The Centre for Internet and Society along with Odia Wikipedians in Bhubaneswar organized an Odia Wikipedia workshop on November 18, 2012. It was held in KMBB College of Engineering. Odia Wikipedia is a free encyclopedia in Odia language which everyone can edit.
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Wikipedia Editing as Assessment Tool in the Indian Higher Education Classroom: by Dr. Tejaswini Niranjana, Ashwin Kumar A.P. and T. Vishnu Vardhan — published Jan 30, 2014 — last modified Jan 30, 2014 10:06 AM — filed under: Social Media, Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Wikimedia, Wikipedia, Openness
Getting students to create and edit Wikipedia entries in English and Indian languages can be a comprehensive assessment tool at the Bachelor’s and Master’s levels. Both levels of higher education require the demonstration of the ability to present knowledge in encyclopaedic form, which can be done by a good review of relevant literature and the showcasing of key arguments in the field.
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Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education: by Prasad Krishna — published Dec 07, 2011 — last modified Mar 30, 2015 02:54 PM — filed under: Featured, Higher Education, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge
Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.
Located in Digital Natives / Pathways to Higher Education / Blog
South Asia Conference on Higher Education: by Prasad Krishna — published Jul 30, 2013 — filed under: Higher Education
The Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications (HEIRA), Centre for Study of Culture and Society is hosting the South Asia Conference on Higher Education at the Ford Foundation office in New Delhi from August 5 to 7, 2013. Sunil Abraham will participate in this conference.
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Workshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars in Pune: by Abhinav Garule — published Oct 27, 2015 — last modified Dec 31, 2015 07:17 AM — filed under: Higher Education, Access to Knowledge, Marathi Wikipedia, CIS-A2K, Hindi Wikipedia
The Centre for Indian Languages in Higher Education (CILHE) is conducting a two-day workshop on Digital Annotation and Content Generation with research scholars at KSP Women’s Studies Centre, Pune on October 30-31, 2015.
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Blogs: Technology, Social Justice and Higher Education
Since the last two years, we at the Centre for Internet and Society, have been working with the Higher Education Innovation and Research Applications at the Centre for the Study of Culture and Society, on a project called Pathways to Higher Education, supported by the Ford Foundation.

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Dec 07, 2011 03:35 AM | Permalink

Filed under: Featured, Higher Education, Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge; Mobility Shifts 2011 — An International Future of Learning Summit
The summit was organised by the New School and sponsored by MacArthur Foundation and Mozilla. It was held from October 10 to October 16, 2011 at the New School, New York City.

Posted by Prasad Krishna at Nov 28, 2011 08:50 AM | Permalink

Filed under: Researchers at Work, Digital Knowledge; Learn it Yourself
The peer-to-peer world of online learning encourages conversations and reciprocal learning, writes Nishant Shah in an article published in the Indian Express on 30 October 2011.

Posted by Nishant Shah at Dec 02, 2011 01:55 AM | Permalink

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