OPEN COURSEWARE: A NEW PARADIGM IN E-LEARNING

History has proved that education and discovery are best advanced when knowledge is shared openly. Open Courseware (OCW) is a part of a comparatively new educational movement in the line of Open access and also an opportunity in the field of distance/elearning that leading institutions and universities around the world can capitalize for the betterment of the society. Great Universities and institutions constantly expand their reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community’s most critical needs. Already world famous institutes like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are working along this way that will automatically inspire other institutions to openly share their course materials for open dissemination of knowledge and information that can open new doors to the benefits of education for humanity around the world. India is a vast country with different culture and languages. In this paper we studied different aspects of OCW and its impact on total learning proce

Open Courseware: A Unique Opportunity for India

The pivotal role of education as an instrument of social change - by altering the human perspective and transforming the traditional mindset of society is well recognized. The universalisation of education has become the top priority, especially for the developing countries. But the extension of quality education to remote and rural regions becomes a Herculean task for a large country like India with multi-lingual and multi-cultural population separated by vast geographical distances, and, in many instances, inaccessible terrain. Open Courseware (OCW) is part of a comparatively new educational movement in the line of Open Access (OA) and leading institutions and universities around the world are capitalizing it for the betterment of the society. OCW provides learners an opportunity to disseminate knowledge beyond the traditional classroom environment. The present study aims to spread the word of OCW and sensitize the teachers and learners about the tremendous potential of OCW in the context of education in Indi

Open Access: What Scientists Think? A survey of researcher's attitude towards Open Access

The Internet has changed how we conduct and share research, primarily by increasing the global reach of scholarly communication. Today the world of information is divided between two views on costs and business. One group believes that content should be freely accessible for the development of further knowledge. The other group believes that content should be maintained by market value for quality products and incentives to the intellectual content. Open Access (OA) has come from the growing interest of researchers in experimenting with innovative mechanisms to disseminate their research findings. However OA is still far behind what it should be in the country like India. At least the scientific community is still in a dilemma to embrace OA. This is what we find in our survey of researcher's attitude towards OA. There are many reasons ranging from lack of awareness, myths about OA and biasness towards traditional publishing model for prestige & recognition. We approached scientists of different research institutes and universities around Kolkata with different age groups in different ways. Interesting results have come out which clearly identified the major hurdles to adopt OA by scientific community in India. Keywords: Open Access, Scholarly Publications, Journal Publisher, Citation and Impact Factor, Research Impact, Open Access Initiative, Institutional Repositories and Usability Study

OPEN COURSEWARE: A NEW PARADIGM IN E-LEARNING

History has proved that education and discovery are best advanced when knowledge is shared openly. Open Courseware (OCW) is a part of a comparatively new educational movement in the line of Open access and also an opportunity in the field of distance/elearning that leading institutions and universities around the world can capitalize for the betterment of the society. Great Universities and institutions constantly expand their reach, working across traditional boundaries to grasp and meet the global community’s most critical needs. Already world famous institutes like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), all Indian Institute of Technologies (IITs) and Indian Institute of Science (IISc) are working along this way that will automatically inspire other institutions to openly share their course materials for open dissemination of knowledge and information that can open new doors to the benefits of education for humanity around the world. India is a vast country with different culture and languages. In this paper we studied different aspects of OCW and its impact on total learning processMizoram Universit

Open Access: What Scientists Think?

The Internet has changed how we conduct and share research, primarily by increasing the global reach of scholarly communication. Today the world of information is divided between two views on costs and business. One group believes that content should be freely accessible for the development of further knowledge. The other group believes that content should be maintained by market value for quality products and incentives to the intellectual content. Open Access (OA) has come from the growing interest of researchers in experimenting with innovative mechanisms to disseminate their research findings. However OA is still far behind what it should be in the country like India. At least the scientific community is still in a dilemma to embrace OA. This is what we find in our survey of researcher's attitude towards OA. There are many reasons ranging from lack of awareness, myths about OA and biasness towards traditional publishing model for prestige & recognition. We approached scientists of different research institutes and universities around Kolkata with different age groups in different ways. Interesting results have come out which clearly identified the major hurdles to adopt OA by scientific community in India

Controlled Secret Sharing Protocol using a Quantum Cloning Circuit

We demonstrate the possibility of controlling the success probability of a secret sharing protocol using a quantum cloning circuit. The cloning circuit is used to clone the qubits containing the encoded information and {\em en route} to the intended receipients. The success probability of the protocol depends on the cloning parameters used to clone the qubits. We also establish a relation between the concurrence of initially prepared state, entanglement of the mixed state received by the receivers after cloning scheme and the cloning parameters of cloning machine.Comment: This is a modified version of the previous work quant-ph/arXiv:1011.286