Library Quality Criteria for NBA Accreditation

The National Board of Accreditation as an autonomous body of All India Council for Technical Education New Delhi (AICTE), has been entrusted with the responsibility of Accreditation of Technical Institutions in India.

The Prime agenda of NBA is to assess and accredit Technical Institutions with the objective of enable them to work continuously to improve the quality of education by maximizing their resources opportunities and capabilities.

The Objectives of NBA 

1.  To encourage the institutions to continually strive towards the attainment of excellence. 
2. To identify the strength and weakness of their programmes
3. To assist the institutions in improving the quality and effectiveness of their programmes.

Why Accreditation Required

If the institution and its programmes are accredited by NBA then Institution will be able to identify its programmes with

1.      Excellence in technical education. 

2.      Bench marks of global requirements 

3.      A national platform to attract better student intake. 

4.      Appraise yourself of your own facilities

5.      Vendor of human capital to world-class employers

Eight Quality Criteria /Weightage for NBA Accreditation.

1. Organization and governance [80]
2. Financial resources, allocation &utilization [70]
3. Physical resources (central facilities) [50]
4. Human resources (faculty & staff) [200]
5. Human resources (students) [100]                 
6. Teaching-learning processes [350]                 
7. Supplementary processes [50]            
8. R&D and interaction efforts [100]

                                                TOTAL = 1000

In Teaching –Learning Processes Library having 20 Marks

How to score maximum Marks in library facility

1 

1. Library Budget Allocation and Utilization of funds. (Latest 3 years data)
2. Library space, Reading area, Seating capacity and Good Infrastructure (Follow the AICTE Norms).
3. Number of Users (Maintain Gate Registers/Thumb impressions /Barcode scanning to record users.(Maintain Statistics)
4. Library Timings (Working days, Weekends and Sundays, Late hours for hostelers.)
5. Number of Library staff, Their Qualifications, Designations and Experience.
6. Library automation with standard software, web OPAC, Bar-code facility and reports generation.
7. Library services through Internet and Intra net, blogs, social networks and web sites, email alerts SMS alerts
8. INDEST or Other similar bodies Memberships
9. Archival of rare materials books and publications
10. Latest Titles and Volumes available in the library according to syllabus (Follow the AICTE Norms for Number of titles and volumes)
11. National and International Journals Subscriptions (Follow AICTE Norms)
12. Back volumes of journals, Project Reports, Question Banks, Syllabus sets
13. Digital library exclusive Space, Server, number ofMulti media systems, Internet bandwidth and speed, Access to online databases. (Usage of Digital library maintain a  record)  
14. NPTEL and other Video lectures, Audio Video Rooms
15. Good collection development for Soft skills, Personality Development  Higher Education and Placements
16. Reprography and Scanners facility
17. Library Classification and Cataloging in standard Classification format.
18. Open Access of arrangement of print and non book materials.
19. Library bay guides to locate the materials easily.
20. Stock verification reports
21. Library Advisory committee meetings minutes implementations
22. Well Maintain Library Registers and Files
23. Display of New Arrivals
24. Display boards of library data and services
25. Library Orientation Programs. seminars
26. Power back up (UPS)
27. Drinking water  facility
28. Book exhibitions
29. Organizing book talks
30. Question papers Syllabus
31. News Papers clippings.
32. Fire safety measures

The Net is your college lab

Under the Virtual Labs project of the HRD Ministry, students can conduct experiments at the click of a mouse

It seems like everything is going online, even education. If the plans chalked out by the Union Ministry of Human Resource Development are to go by, in the near future, students could conduct their intricate engineering and science experiments at the click of a mouse.

Virtual Labs, a project initiated by the Ministry under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NMEICT), was released earlier this year with the objective of using the Internet to make up for the inadequate laboratory infrastructure in colleges in the State, with particular focus on rural colleges.

The 91 lab experiments, covering nine broad areas, have been developed by 12 institutes from across the country. Apart from seven Indian Institutes of Technology (Delhi, Bombay, Kanpur, Kharagpur, Madras, Roorkee and Guwahati), International Institute for Information Technology-Hyderabad, Amrita University, Dayalbagh University, National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), and College of Engineering, Pune, developed the experiments that were subsequently uploaded on the website:

SIMPLIFICATION

The method involved involves simplifying learning of the experiment procedure by reducing textual information into packets of interactive graphics and diagrams – an attempt to translate the audio-visual experience of the lab into the virtual world.

For example, take the experiment to find the moment of inertia of a connecting rod, which was developed by College of Engineering, Pune. While the online experiment lists of background information and mathematical theory – in the form of text and schematic diagrams, as one would find in a textbook – it also contains a simulator, where the student, through the appropriate clicks of the mouse, can perform the experiment.

“The project would be useful for rural colleges, where there are no quality lab facilities available,” said Gangadharan K.V., a professor at NITK who coordinated the development of the “solve” labs in the institute.

The success of the project, however, depends entirely on the real-world problem of poor Internet connectivity in the rural parts of the State. To meet this problem, the Ministry plans to provide connectivity to over 1,800 institutes in the country, said Mr. Gangadharan.

HANDS-ON VS. ONLINE

However, can the clicking of the mouse substitute the hands-on experience of physical readings in a laboratory? The NMEICT mission statement ambiguously skirts the issue of whether ‘Virtual Labs' would actually replace practicals in colleges following the system. The statement says that for the ‘touch and feel' part, students “can possibly” visit an actual laboratory.

“It's like learning to play cricket by watching it on television,” said S. Parthan, a retired aeronautical professor from IIT-Kharagpur. Calling the lack of emphasis on practicals as one of the big problems afflicting the education system in the country, he said: “It is one thing to look at the computer or TV screen and it is another to work an actual model.”

While agreeing that the system cannot entirely replace an actual laboratory experimentation, Mr. Gangadharan said that the objective of ‘Virtual Labs' was to encourage scientific curiosity among students, and to optimise resource allocation.

Costly equipment and resources could be shared between colleges by optimising the time the student spends to conduct an experiment. “By learning about the experiment on ‘Virtual Labs,' the student has enough knowledge to take on the machine from the moment he or she steps into the laboratory. Hence, in the working hours of the lab, more students can conduct experiments,” he said.

The system would also help tackle one of the most pressing issues of the education system in the country – the lack of teachers. Fewer teachers would be required to coach a group of students, when a bulk of the theory could be grasped interactively through ‘Virtual Labs,' he said.

ENCOURAGING RESPONSE

Though the lab started public operations only on February 23, Mr. Gangadharan said the response was encouraging. The labs developed by NITK have received over 2,000 unique views, with people from over 20 countries visiting the site. A user spent an average of around seven minutes in the website, he said. “From next month onwards, we'll approach different colleges in the State to adopt the method.”

‘Virtual Labs' is a small step in the larger scheme of things. According to the NMEICT mission document, it would be a part of the ‘Learning Management System' where students can utilise the various tools for learning, including additional web-resources, video-lectures, animated demonstrations and self-evaluation.

“All these resources would constitute a virtual university, which would aid students grasp concepts and venture beyond their syllabus,” said Mr. Gangadharan.

A more ambitious step is remotely conducting experiments. According to Mr. Gangadharan, students can, in the near future, conduct an experiment in an actual lab by controlling triggers and through a computer interface in their college.

“This would entail carrying out the actual lab experiment remotely,” states the mission statement.

Link Code:

www.vlab.co.in

Robotics Automation

there are so many application are available in Internet for the robotics development area that can be use the application software to build your own robots at your self at home or university even in the working place.in the software market field there are available so many software but its not affordable to purchase a software for using the robot development for your projects works or just hobby so now let use the free software application to help you for better robots building yourself .

This Robots Developer Software are developed and release by the Software Major Microsoft!!! Don't be amazing they are not only developing the MS Office or Windows , they do their presence in the area of the robotics development so you don't fear about the advantage of the software, its equal to the paid software application,now let the some information about the software programs.

first thing you need a windows operating system suppose if you are running the Xp version Oops you cannot able to use the application at least you need windows vista to run the application on your system .it include so many advanced features let i say some of them which are mainly used for developing .

Visual Simulation Environment :

You can able to simulate and test the robotic application in 3D Physics based Simulation tool.this allow the user to create robotics based programs with not support of hardware,for example you can able to try your own created application in a various of virtual environments.

Visual Programming Language

You can do program on your application by using this Visual Programming Language ,it gives a simple drag and drop VPL tools its very helpful for making it easy.and having more features on this application .this software are like by the Robotics Engineering 

System Requirements:	Microsoft DirectX 9.0c compatible graphics card, Dual-core processor (2 gigahertz (GHz) or faster recommended), 10 GB of available disk space, 2 GB of memory (4 GB recommended), At least two separate USB 2.0 channels (three or more recommended), A WiFi adapter is optional, but most laptops manufactured in the last few years have WiFi.
Operating System	Windows
Licence	Free
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Practices Maths Online

learning from the internet is one of the experience but if you learning from the internet with different experiences are fully awesome to the learners even for the educational Academy can use these features to enhance the learners performs good.you can use this interactive learning features to learn on science,geography,vocabulary as well as with large collection the maths have on this websites.this is fully for the students and educators can use this one for more scores .

 

This is Mainly used for the practice the mathematics calculating on this websites . if you become a register user on this websites you can track your mathematics performs on this websites that means how much of time you taking to solve a single problem,how much of time you taking to solve the target problem and others related information and if you are a teacher you can also able to track your students do on this websites without any further problem.

Mathematics learning features included the following subjects.

integers

fractions

concepts

geometry

you can use this websites for leaning the science , vocabulary for international language like english,german and more are awaiting for you on this websites that are containing only for the basic information for the students but even it basic so many things will be forgotten after finish the lesson but do practise on this website again and again it will be unforgetable.you can know after using the geography features at this websites.this geography are teaching about the Americas,Europe,Africa,Asia just go to the page for leaning more about that as quick and do it yourself if you feel ok

Sciences are include the following subjects

cells

anatomy

elements

conversion

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