IGNOU is reactivating its popular educational resource portal
eGyanKosh. In view of the national requirement the University has
taken a decision to reactivate the portal on ‘as-is-where-is basis’.
IGNOU initiated the development of a knowledge repository
named e-GyanKosh (www.egyankosh.ac.in) in October, 2005, to
store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning
resources developed by the ODL institutions in the country. It
emerged as one of the world’s largest educational resource
repositories, and the access to the repository was open and free.
Self-instructional print material of around 2565 courses
(comprising more than forty thousand course modules) and 2389
video programmes of IGNOU have been digitised and uploaded on
the repository.
Reactivation of eGyanKosh may also provide an integral base for
two major initiatives of MHRD, the National Digital Library
(NDL) and the SWAYAM (India MOOCS) programme and similar
other platforms. This will in turn be benefitting millions of learner
and teacher community in the country.
