ICT Basics MooC Free Course by NPTEL

Dear Btechallsolutions Readers, Massive Open Online Courses or MOOCs enable thousands of learners to access high quality education in a single offering. India is a nation with a massive need for upgradation of skills and knowledge at various levels from landless workers to professionals in a large number of sectors. MOOCs seem to be very appropriate to meet this need.
Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become fundamental to the functioning of our society, quite like electricity and roads. There are a variety of ways agriculture domain harnesses the power of ICT. In order to appreciate how ICT can be used in agriculture, it is important to understand the basic concepts in this space, their functionality and their limitations. This course on ICT Basics will cover the fundamentals of ICT. It will deal with how information is gathered from the real world, stored in the machines, transmitted from machine to machine. It will talk about how the system figures out your location and your identity. Management of servers and services over the Cloud is another fundamental ability, which will be discussed. This course will be followed by advanced courses, which will take you further into ICT applications in modern agriculture.

Who should attend this course?

Being a basic course this should be of interest to everybody who use Cellphones, Computers and various computer based services. In particular, they should be useful to

• Students of Agriculture Universities
• Faculty of SAU
• Agriculture Scientists in ARS
• NGOs in Agriculture

Participant Can Learn About:

1.     Website, Web Application
2.     Read/write Web, Semantic Web
3.     Server Side: Web servers, Search Engines
4.     Client side: Browsers, Apps
5.     Basics of Cloud Computing
6.     Access Devices: Desktop, Laptop, Tablet, Smart Phone
7.     Communication Technologies: Voice and Data, 2G, 3G, 4G, GSM, CDMA
8.     Identity and Location: Who are you and where are you, GPRS, Cell towers, Wifi
9.     Data Storage: DBMS, Content management, Knowledge representation and storage

Important Dates:

Start date: 17th March 2015
Duration: Six Weeks
Registration: Open and Free of Charge
Offered and Certified by: NPTEL
Prerequisites: None

Course Team

Faculty Incharge : Prof. Prabhakar TV, IIT Kanpur

    Ms. Revathy KT
    Mr. Ankur Mishra
    Mr. Sunil Kumar Singh
    Mr. Ravi S Mula
    Mr. Gaurav Shukla
    Ms. Neha Anand
    Dr. Neeta Singh
    Dr. Sharwan Shukla
    Dr. Kiran Yadav
    Mr. Deepak Kumar
    Mr. K.K. Dubey
    Ms. Helen Askounis
    Ms. Michelle Gruda

Course Website : http://agmoocs.in

Certificates

agMOOCs are offered under the umbrella of NPTEL. Participation certificate and Competency certificate will be given to qualifying students based on their involvement and performance.

Note: Required participation for certificates may vary slightly from one MOOC to another. In general, very active participation in browsing course materials, in online discussion spaces, in quizzes, tests and assignments will be required. Participation in a final test (online) and a reasonable score will be compulsory to obtain the certificate.

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