National Digital Education Architecture (NDEAR)

NDEAR is under the aegis of the Ministry of Education in collaboration with MeitY. Its is a federated public digital education infra that will support teaching-learning, educational planning, administration and governance activities for all stakeholders through a common digital architecture as envisaged by #NEP2020.

The goal of NDEAR is to create a digital infrastructure for education. Both the Centre and States will benefit from NDEAR in terms of planning, managing, and governing school education, as well as instructors, students, and schools who will benefit from a seamless digital learning experience. The entire student and teacher community will benefit from NDEAR’s institutional structure, governance framework, technology, and data.

NDEAR is an architectural blueprint for the education ecosystem and not a system.

That defines a set of

  1. Principles – e.g. technology and ecosystem
  2. Standards and Specifications – e.g. technology and data
  3. Guidelines – e.g. data process, ecosystem engagement
  4. Policies – e.g. data, openness, inclusion, accessibility

And Identifies the key building blocks needed to make the architecture blueprint a reality

For an ecosystem of

  1. Actors to build, develop, innovate – interoperable building blocks.
  2. Applications/Innovations in the form of Solutions, platforms, tools, assets to be developed and used.

To enable the achievement of policy goals through programmes such as – SSA, FLN Mission – etc.

NDEAR Enables Coherent Multi Channel, Multimodal, Learning Continuum

At school, after school, at community centre, at home Synchronous/ Asynchronous, Offline/ Online, Physical/ Digital, Self-service/ Assisted

 

NDEAR has 12 CATEGORIES

of buildings blocks with 36 BUILDING BLOCKS across these categories

OPEN STANDARD & NDEAR PORTAL

Community driven open standards protocols, specifications, knowledge made available as Open Source via NDEAR Portal

FEDERATED IDENTITIES

Students

Teachers

Educational Institutions

REFERENCE DATA

Master Data/ Codes

Directories

Registries (school teachers’ students etc)

INFRASTRUCTURE

Education Networks & Cloud

Messaging & Video / Audio Conferencing

Education Data Exchange

Open School Hardware

TECHNOLOGY

Locker & Consent Management

Open AI Services

Shared UX Services

Language Assets & Services

GOVERNANCE

School Affiliation

Awards Recognition

Examination, Result, Certification

Schemes, Programs, Scholarships

ADMINISTRATION

Personal & Payroll

Admission, Test

School Management, Attendance

Monitoring, Counselling

CONTENT

Contribution & Curation

Taxonomy & Tagging

Language & Translation

Discovery & Personalization

LEARNING

Learn, Do & Practice, Sense & Assess

Interaction & Collaboration

Credentialing & Boding

Learning Infra, Telemetry & Analytics

REFERENCE

Multi-channel, Unified, Coherent, Accessible UX (Mobile, Web, TV, Phone, Radio, Chat, Voice, Etc)

OPEN DATA & ANALYTICS

Open Data, Data Analytics GIS, Visualizations AI/ ML

ECOSYSTEM SANDBOX

Rules, Tools, Policies, Governance Process, Certifications

 

Links to :

NDEAR Architecture Principles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1be0A2PsSOE

Equality in Education: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj69yY10MSk

Building strong foundations through Academic Bank of Credit, NDEAR, NEFT & more :https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0YAecdseo0

Webinar on Technology in Education by Ministry of Education: https://pib.gov.in/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=1753262

NDEAR at glance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=faq2tEdNmmY

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