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Development Education (International)
Society, DEIS is a registered Society and Public Trust, since 1987.
DEIS has extensive experience of almost two decades in ‘Poverty
Alleviation and Prevention through Enterprise Development Education”.
The current projects in hand include the following:
- Enterprise Education and Development
Project in India, EEDPI
- PROMOSYS , Project Monitoring System for
National Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development
Board, 2006-2010
- Women’s Empowerment Projects.
DEIS has received valuable co-operation for its
work from Centres for Entrepreneurship Development, Technical Consultancy
Organizations, AIR, Doordarshan and others in Maharashtra, UP, MP,
Assam and Meghalaya.
It also received technical guidance from CCom and
Enterprise New Zealand Trust (ENZT), Durham University, UK; KRO
TV, Netherlands and other International Agencies.
Funding support largely came from CORDAID, The
Netherlands; Asia Development Assistance Facility, New Zealand;
Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI), Department of
Science and Technology (DST), UNDP and others.
In the above projects DEIS has extensive experience in use of TV,
Radio, Computer Aided Instructions, Web based applications, etc.
for ‘Enterprise Education’.
The achievements to date are given at link HIGHLIGHTS
One of the learning points of DEIS is that technology
can effectively bring vital development information and motivation
to needy masses geographically spread through urban or rural areas
of the country across all economic and literacy levels.
Hence for 2009-2012, DEIS has as one of its objectives to use Information
Communication Technology, ICT for Education
DEIS invites like minded professionals, funding agencies and others
to join hands.
Please contact deispune@gmail.com
or
call Dr. Pradeep Wagh at +91 9881 364977.
DEIS wish-plan
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1. Further e-content generation on
ENTERPRISE EDUCATION for Entrepreneurship Education
web portal
www.enterprise-education.in
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2. Content Generation through video
and web course.
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3. Conversion of available content
into various regional languages.
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4. Development
of Vocational Educational modules and use of Haptic
devices. |
5. Development
and realization of Virtual reality laboratories. |
6. Other
Research Projects. |
7. Development
of software controlled hardware programming for robotics. |
8. OTHER AREAS
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tentative details are given below: |
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1. Further e-content generation
on ENTERPRISE EDUCATION for Entrepreneurship Education
web portal |
www.enterprise-education.in
- Research and content development for primary, upper
primary, secondary level and college students as well.
- TV programs of instruction would be planned to complement
the instructional material
- Radio Programs could also be planned to popularize
the Enterprise Education for masses at large.
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2.Content
Generation through video and web course. |
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e- Content development for some of the following courses: |
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Industrial Engineering & Management
2. Electronics
3. Total Quality Management
4. Production Management
5. Non-Conventional Energy
6. Biological & Nature Photography
7. Computer Soft-wares
8. Technological Forecasting
Each stream may have multiple courses. Total of 50 courses
in above streams may have to be covered.
b) DEIS has unique experience in developing web and
video courses.
It has already done the first of its kind experiment
in India of linking mass instructions through TV to
web-based instructions.
c) DEIS has its own content of three ‘Women’s
Empowerment Anthologies’. These would be also
converted into web and videos. |
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of available content into various regional languages. |
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DEIS plans to convert 3 subjects, history, geography and
science for VI to XII in Hindi and Marathi each into e-content
for Entrepreneurship web portal
b) Course e-content Cds will also be developed into interactive
multimedia CDs. |
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4. Development of Vocational
Educational modules and use of Haptic devices. |
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This will form an important part of contribution to the
ICT for education that DEIS would like to make.
Also DEIS would like to develop e-content for 10 conventional
Vocational courses.
b) DEIS will pay special attention to development of Haptic
devices. |
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5. Development and realization
of Virtual reality laboratories. |
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One point DEIS would like to explore is to set up a Virtual
Science Laboratory, where tools of ICT like multi-media,
video, interactive tools etc. would be available so that
the learners in the distance education system ,those in
remotely located educationally backward areas can reap
the benefit as well.
b) The Virtual Science Lab, will essentially comprise
of a user friendly graphical front-end, working in synchronization
with a backend, possibly consisting of a simulation-engine
running on a server.
c) The exhibits will be housed in an exhibition centre
mode and open to students and general public.
d)Other than this we could also take help of some specialized
students from engineering and other management or training
institutes as part of their internship program and use
their help in the development and building of relevant
technologies and programs. |
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6. Other
Research Projects. |
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Explore, research and study of new technologies that can
be adopted for enhanced use of ICT in education.
b) TV episodes would be planned to spread awareness about
New Technologies for ICT in education.
c) Exploring, researching and studying of Edu-entertainment
and gaming for knowledge enhancement.
d) We could also explore certain popular user friendly
internet websites like Facebook and Orkut to reach out
to a larger mass of students.
e) Other than this we could also take help of certain
specialized students from IITs and other management or
training institutes to spread awareness and also use their
help in the development of certain technologies and programs. |
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7. Development of software
controlled hardware programming for robotics. |
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Design Programming for Robotics is a specialized area
of programming involving the integrated knowledge of both
hardware and software into a working robotic system
- DEIS’ knowledge in this field is limited but,
to offer an integrated and synergized result, DEIS is
willing to explore the subject, if it is necessary for
improving the effectiveness of the other items enunciated
already.
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OTHER AREAS |
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will explore other new areas for contributing to national
development depending on mutual discussions with professionals
and funding agencies. |
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| Correspondence
is welcome at:
Development Education
(International) Society,
Prabhat House, Damle Path,
Law College Road,
Pune 411 004
India
Tel/fax +91 20 25439101
e-mail: deispune@gmail.com
mob.: +91 9881 364977 |
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- Guidelines for Enterprise
Education, November 2003 ,published by PSSCIVE,NCERT,MHRD,
Bhopal based on inputs of DEIS.
- ’Enterprise Education
for School Going Children’. By Dr.Pradeep
Wagh ,July 2003, published by NIOS, MHRD in
their book:Enterprising Community Education.
- Udyam Shastra ,by Dr.Pradeep
Wagh , published as a unit of study in the book
‘Personality Development’ published
by Maharashtra State Board of Secondary and
Higher Secondary Education, Pune 411005, 2007-2008.
- ENTERPRISE EDUCATION
for Vocational Students published by National
Science & Technology Entrepreneurship Development
Board, NSTEDB, Dept. of Science & Tech nology,
Govt. of India, April 2003, under the aegis
of United Nations Development Programme,UNDP.
- RADIO & TV for ENTERPRISE
EDUCATION.
DEIS PUBLISHED through broadcast a series of
Radio and TV programmes in 1992, titled UDYOG
SADHANA on All India Radio (AIR) and Doordarshan
for Entrepreneurship Development of the unemployed.
These programmes yielded audience response of
85,000 unemployed. DEIS serviced them through
a ‘Udyam Margdarshika’.
The latest in its efforts of using ICT for Education
is the successful UDYOG SADHANA-Navi vatchal
TV serial of 26 weekly programmes that DEIS
mounted on DD Sahyadri from July’08 to
January ‘09. The programmes were tied
to DEIS’ EE web portal, so that students
could follow lectures on the TV and solve the
activities on the web-portal. The activities
can be submitted for evaluation. Over 450 students
registered for the course.
- Web Portal for ENTERPRISE
EDUCATION RESEARCH
About 1998, DEIS felt that instead of waiting
for youth to become unemployed, why not give
them Enterprise Education inputs in school/college
level itself?
Accordingly since 1999 DEIS has started WORLD-WIDE
research in ENTERPRISE EDUCATION by visiting
educationists and schools in:
New Zealand, Australia, USA, Canada, UK, Netherlands.
This entire research, since 1987, in ENTERPRISE
EDUCATION was done with support totaling near
about Rs. 4 Crore , under development cooperation
with :
- Netherlands, CORDAID
- New Zealand, Asia Development Assistance
facility, ADAF and CCom.
- UNDP
- and associates in India like Small Industries
Development Bank of India, SIDBI and Department
of Science & Technology, DST ,Govt.
of India.
Under a UNDP project this research was first
implemented in the Arab Region of:
- Morocco
- Algiers
- Sudan
- Syria
- Jordan
where the Secretary General, DEIS taught
the Enterprise Education material developed.
This entire research is now available on
DEIS’s web portal www.enterprise-eeducation.in
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- Video Cds for Education
DEIS has PUBLISHED over 32 Volumes of VCDs titled:
UDYOJAKTA VIKAS MALIKA. Details of these are
available on the website www.deispune.org
under the link of RESOURCE Materials.
- Computer softwares for
EDUCATION
DEIS has PUBLICATIONS
of several multi-media CDs for Education:
- Kalpavriksha , Opportunity Guidance CD
- Interactive CD on Enterprise Education
- Interactive CD on Pranayam
- Interactive Business Planner
- Interactive multi-media Cds of WOMEN’S
EMPOWERMENT Anthologies , please see www.SitaShakti.in
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