A globally pioneering effort in education - A unifying national digital infrastructure to energise and catalyse the education ecosystem
federated, unbundled, interoperable, inclusive, accessible, evolving
which aims to create and deliver
diverse, relevant, contextual, innovative solutions
that benefit
students, teachers, parents, communities, administrators and
result in timely
implementation of policy goals
Learning Interactions, Administration interactions
Learn, Help Learn, Manage Learn
Student (any learner), Parent (any caregiver), Teacher (anyone who provides formal/informal teaching) Administrator (anyone who can help manage) Community Member (anyone from society, including market players)
Open Standards and principles, Federated Architecture, Building Blocks, Ecosystem
At school, after school, at community centre, at home Synchronous/ Asynchronous, Offline/ Online, Physical/ Digital, Self-service/ Assisted
36 building blocks within 12 Categories
Community driven open standards protocols, specifications, knowledge Made available as open source via NDEAR Portal
Students
Teachers
Educational Institutions
Master Data/Codes
Directories
Registries (school teachers students etc)
Education Network & Cloud
Messaging & Video/Audio
Conferencing
Education Data Exchange
Open School Hardware
Locker & Consent Management
Open Al Services
Shared UX Services
Language Assets & Services
School Affiliation
Awards Recognition
Examination, Results, Certification
Schemes, Programs, Scholarships
Personnel & Payroll, Admissions, Tests, School Management, Attendance, Mentoring, Counselling
Contribution & Curation
Taxonomy & Tagging
Language & Translation
Discovery & Personalisation
Learn, Do & Practice, Sense & Assess
Interaction & Collaboration
Credentialing & Badging Learning Infra, Telemetry & Analytics
Multi-channel, Unified, Coherent, Accessible apps/solutions UX (Mobile, Web, TV, Phone, Radio, Chat, Voice, Etc)
Open Data, Data Analytics GIS infra, Visualizations Al/ML
Rules, Tools, Policies, Governance Processes, Certifications
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan
Minister of Education, Government of India
Smt. Annpurna Devi
Minister of State for Education, Government of India
Smt. Anita Karwal
Secretary, Department of School Education & Literacy,
Ministry of Education, Government
of India
Shri J Satyanarayana
Chief Advisor, C4IR India, World Economic Forum
Shri Ajay Prakash Sawhney
Secretary, Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Government of India
Dr Neeta Verma
Director General, National Informatics Centre,
Ministry of Electronics & Information
Technology (MeitY)
Government of India
NDEAR is meant to enable a common set of principles and approaches to be followed in building, using and re-using technology for education. Without NDEAR :
That defines a set of
a. Principles - e.g. technology and ecosystem
b. Standards and Specifications - e.g. technology and data
c. Guidelines - e.g. data process, ecosystem engagement
d. Policies - e.g. data, openness, inclusion, accessibility
For an ecosystem
ofa. Actors to build, develop, innovate - interoperable building blocks
b. Applications/Innovations in the form of Solutions, platforms, tools, assets to be developed and used
Prescriptive set of:
a. Features Solutions
b. Education policies & programmes. It is not a builder or developer of building blocks, solutions and programmes