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Fig.50: Dr. Jagdish Arora, Director, INFLIBNET Centre, Dr. (Mrs) Pankaj Mittal, Additional Secretary, Prof.

H Devaraj, Vice Chairman, UGC, Prof. Uma Kanjilal, DLIS, IGNOU and Mr. Pradeep Kaul, Senior
Consultant, NME-ICT, MHRD on the Dais and Participants during Inaugural Session of National
Workshop on MOOCs at INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar

revolutionary developments that are taking place in the area of e-content development and delivery by
major players like MIT, EdX, Coursera, etc. He also stressed upon the fact that content developed under

e-PG Pathshala would have international exposure through SWAYAM. As such, the SMEs are expected
to deliver high-quality e-content. Prof. Uma Kanjilal, DLIS, IGNOU and Mr. Pradeep Kaul, Senior

Consultant, NME-ICT, MHRD also shared their views. Mr. Abhishek Kumar, Scientist C (CS), INFLIBNET

Centre extended a warm vote of thanks. More than 125 subject experts from across the country
attended the Workshop. Representative from NCERT, NIOS and multimedia vendors also attended the

Workshop.

6.3.1. Technical Sessions

Dr. (Mrs.) Pankaj Mittal was Conference Director. Mr. Pradeep Kaul chaired the technical session- I. The
session had the following three presentations:

a) “Guidelines for re-purposing of e-Content: Role of Academician and Multimedia” by Dr. Pankaj
Mittal and Mr. Abhishek Kumar. This presentation was focused on basic introduction to the
MOOCs and how to re-purpose the e-PG Pathshala content into MOOC compliant format. The

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