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DRONA works in the principle of Vedanta as envisioned
by...
Swami Vivekananda,
Swami Vivekananda,
"the teacher invokes the spirit of inquiry in the pupil who is
supposed to find out things for himself under the bias-free
guidance of the teacher".
This principle also resembles the heuristic method of the modern education, where the students play the role of an independent discoverer. The teacher sets a problem for the students and then ask them to discover the answer.
DRONA has four distinct parts:
(1) DRONA EdMS (EdMS),
(2) DRONA ONLINE CONTENT BUILDER TOOL (dOCBT),
(3) DRONA ONLINE ASSESSMENT BUILDER TOOL (dOABT) and
(4) DRONA SOCIO-LEARN MEDIA (dSLM).
(2) DRONA ONLINE CONTENT BUILDER TOOL (dOCBT),
(3) DRONA ONLINE ASSESSMENT BUILDER TOOL (dOABT) and
(4) DRONA SOCIO-LEARN MEDIA (dSLM).
These parts are integrated to work together as well as to work independently. Both dOCBT and dOABT can work online and offline to provide efficient work environment for the instructors and authors.
In addition to dOCBT and dOABT, dSLM is designed to work in an autonomous fashion but has been restristed by integrating with dLMS to ensure that feedback and interaction are established between instructors and students efficiently.
DRONA is designed and developed on the basis of two fundamental needs:
how to teach over online and how to build the content bridging together academic system and content development process, thereby giving freedom and self-reliance to authors and instructors to develop their own content.
NIE has launched DRONA with its LMS section
containing many interdisciplinary tutorials. The full
fledged version of DRONA will be launched in August 2016.
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CONTENT DEVELOPMENT PROCESS COVERED BY DRONA
Based on SIX AREAS OF LEARNING, DRONA provides
comprehensive solution by incorporating complete content
development and knowledge transfer process.
CONTENT,TEACH and BUILD
The content structure and the teaching mode and presention of content are interlinked. Together they ensure to overcome several challenges of online teaching mode. These challenges have been resolved by DRONA ONLINE CONTENT BUILDING TOOL (doCBT).
doCBT has three components:
CONTENT,TEACH and BUILD
The content structure and the teaching mode and presention of content are interlinked. Together they ensure to overcome several challenges of online teaching mode. These challenges have been resolved by DRONA ONLINE CONTENT BUILDING TOOL (doCBT).
doCBT has three components:
DRONA CONTENT OUTLINE TOOL (COT)
Drona system supports and guides instructors to design
efficient content outline by its CONTENT OUTLINE TOOL (COT).
It helps:
*It is retained in database for future reusability.
- To define content outline of the program.
- To allow administrators to define Syllabus in the system through expandable repository.
- To provide sharable-cum-reusable information for optimized the academic performance of the institution. This feature is unique to DRONA.
- To define parameters such as:
- Define course timeline
- Define Program distribution across the given timeline
- Define time limit for a course completion in the program,
- Define program structure,
- Define scheduler of courses in a program,
- Define and customise, new and existing program content outline,
- Add, Modify or delete existing content outline from the LMS but not from the repository *
*It is retained in database for future reusability.
DRONA SCRIPT AND STORYBOARD TOOL (SAS)
DRONA understands difficulties of many instructors to create
online content. Therefore, to support and guide instructors
and to become self-reliant in developing script and
storyboard DRONA has introduced WOS, this helps:
- To allow authors with guiding format for developing script, and Storyboard ensuring uniformity through its templates.
- To contribute in content archiving for future authors
- To support Online Instruction Design from Content Development team. This service is unique to DRONA LMS users.
- To provide backend support in developing media assets (illustrations, animation, 3D models and videos) through "DRONA Author Support Team".
- To provide templates for multi-layered content with level definition.
- To provide optional feature for review, setting up reviewer, activating version control and reviewer feedback mechanism.
DRONA AUTHORING TOOL (AUT)
In many ways DRONA is better than other online content
building tools:
Drona understands instructors are not developers. Most online content building tools are either too simple or complicate that requires developers' assistance. Most cases development use of more than one software and add skill Dependency. To create self-reliance to instructor, AUT features provide:
Drona understands instructors are not developers. Most online content building tools are either too simple or complicate that requires developers' assistance. Most cases development use of more than one software and add skill Dependency. To create self-reliance to instructor, AUT features provide:
- Direct import of content from COT and WOS to AUT
- Automated course structuring based on content outline and storyboard input
- Multiple standardised EASY (Effective Attractive Simplified for You) Templates as well as CYU
- templates readily available for instructor to develope sharable Learning Objects (LO)
- "Create custom template" feature for authors.
- DRONA Scenario builder provides templates for Author to build scenario based on:
- Learning pedagogy - Understand, Apply and Analyse
- Difficulty levels
- Combination of both pedagogy and levels.
- Authoring tool structure builder feature provides author linear, nonlinear and branching facilities.
- Provides m-learn (content for mobile devices) publishing feature.
- Multi-browser compatibility. Easy SCORM compliance, standalone and IWB (interactive white board) publishing facility.
- Standard SCORM Complier
- SCORM 2.1 and SCORM 2004
- DRONA backend programming team also provides Service to facilitate the authors for developing Virtual LABs on request, another unique service for drone user.
- DRONA backend programming team also provides Service to facilitate the authors for developing Virtual LABs on request, another unique service for drone user.
- Unit convertor, Math equation builder, Std. scientific Charts, 3D chemical models
- On demand Drona Media library
LEARN and SOCIALIZE
Student-teacher interaction is the key to learning process.
Accordingly, Bill Pelz has proposed three principles of
effective online learning:
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The First principle "let the students do (most of) the work. The more 'quality' time students spend engaged in content, the more of that content they learn."
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The second principle states "interactivity is the heart and soul of effective asynchronous learning." He further states, "Students can be required to interact with one another, with the professor, with the text, with the Internet, with the entire class, in small groups or teams, one-on-one with a partner, etc.
In addition to discussing the course content, students can interact regarding assignments, problems to solve, case studies, lab activities, etc. Any course can be designed with required interactivity."
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The third principle of effective online learning is "strive for presence": Social, Cognitive and Teaching.
LEARNING MANAGEMENT SYSTEMT (LMS)
Apart from managing online tutorials and courses it
includes:
Through these tools day to day status of students directly updated on to instructors' desk through multiple trackers, enabling instructors to keep constant watch on students progress.
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DRONA - Discussion Forum:
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DRONA - Classroom Chat,
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DRONA - Mail services (incl. Announcement, and Notification services)
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DRONA - Blog
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DRONA - Scheduler
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DRONA - Audio/Video call and conference.
Through these tools day to day status of students directly updated on to instructors' desk through multiple trackers, enabling instructors to keep constant watch on students progress.
SOCIO-LEARNING MEDIA (SLM)
Drona dSLM allows instructors to provide personal touch
through one-to-one and one-to-many conversation through:
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DRONA - FM Air
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DRONA - Open Chat
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DRONA - Teacher Room
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DRONA - Timeline
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DRONA - OPEN FORUM
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DRONA - GURUKOOL (online follower)
ASSESS
No learning is complete without assessment.The classical grading system gives an idea about the learner's knowledge level, but it is unable to reflect how the learner's knowledge level is achieved, what the possible areas of deficiency are, and how the deficiency can be removed for individual students. If the assessment system can identify these problems as far as possible, it becomes easier for the counselor to advise the path of improvement. It will also be easier for the authors and moderators to improve the quality of the content.
DRONA STUDENT LEARNING TREND ASSESSMENT ENGINE (dSLT)
This DRONA-SLT assessment engine guides the assessors to
follow a comprehensive question path by using DRONA
ASSESSMENT Template, and thereby can produce a complete
on-demand report that identifies quantitatively seven
deficient areas in the learning outcome. Some of these areas
are:
Student Learning Trend
(SLT) regarding:
Level of achievement
in different pedagogical areas
Overall Confidence
level about knowledge
Communication skill
Overall Area of
weakness on a subject
Global trend of a
class in a semester
Global difficulty area
in the content
This DRONA-SLT assessment engine guides the assessors to
follow a comprehensive question path by using DRONA ASSESSMENT
Template, and thereby can produce a complete on-demand report
that identifies quantitatively seven deficient areas in the
learning outcome. Some of these areas are:
Current Knowledge
level
Knowledge gaining
trend
Misconception
Area of avoidance
Clear know-how
Student Learning Trend
(SLT) regarding:
Level of achievement in
different pedagogical areas
Overall Confidence level
about knowledge
Communication skill
Overall Area of weakness
on a subject
Global trend of a class
in a semester
Global difficulty area
in the content
Approach
Building together...
Today's global trend of education is to "GO ONLINE"
among the top universities across the world. "GO
ONLINE" helps maximise teaching and training capacity and
simultaneously provides quality education at economical and
optimal cost. This trend will increase in the number of expert
level professionals in the society.
To achieve optimal outcome from this trend, NIE provides its service and highly experienced expertise in close collaboration with the organisations to develop customized online programs in line with the goals of the organisation.
Considering "International Higher Education (HE)", DRONA LMS product of NIE launches various interdisciplinary tutorials and comprehensive programs which bring together natural, physical, computer and social sciences under one big umbrella "STEM"(science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
To achieve optimal outcome from this trend, NIE provides its service and highly experienced expertise in close collaboration with the organisations to develop customized online programs in line with the goals of the organisation.
Considering "International Higher Education (HE)", DRONA LMS product of NIE launches various interdisciplinary tutorials and comprehensive programs which bring together natural, physical, computer and social sciences under one big umbrella "STEM"(science, technology, engineering and mathematics).
Capability
Run-Time Environment Temporal Model
provide Drona EdMS with following abilities:
Login Session: A period of time during which a learner begins a session with a system (logged on) until the learner terminates the session or logged out.
Learner Attempt: User progress get saved and can be observed by instructor on real time to satisfy the requirements of a learning activity(s) of a content object. An attempt may span one or more learner sessions and may be suspended between learner sessions.
Learner Session: An uninterrupted period of time during which a learner is accessing a content object.
Communication Session: An active connection between a content object (i.e., SCO) and an application programming interface.
Login Session: A period of time during which a learner begins a session with a system (logged on) until the learner terminates the session or logged out.
Learner Attempt: User progress get saved and can be observed by instructor on real time to satisfy the requirements of a learning activity(s) of a content object. An attempt may span one or more learner sessions and may be suspended between learner sessions.
Learner Session: An uninterrupted period of time during which a learner is accessing a content object.
Communication Session: An active connection between a content object (i.e., SCO) and an application programming interface.
Connection Server
The Maximum Concurrent User Number at present with our
server is 10,000. In near future we are enhancing this
number to 100,000 concurrent users. NIE also working to use
local radio connection which allows user to run Drona EdMS
under limited range without using internet or intranet. This
will make courses published in DRONA very easy to access and
cost effective. For achieving the target of 100,000 users our
development team is using NIO connector. NIO use fewer thread;
it means that the TCP/IP port use is fewer.
Application and Database Server
Server
runs under "LINUX" OS and apache web server, "MySQL" database
and other solutions written in JAVA.
Technical Capabilities
Structure:
Centralization and organization of all learning-related functions into one system, enabling efficient access to these functions via layered interface navigation functions.
Security:
Protection from unauthorized access to courses, learner records, and administrative functions.
Registration:
Finding and selecting or assigning courses, curricula, etc. by learners and their supervisors. This may include instructor-led training classes.
Delivery:
On-demand delivery of learning content and experiences to learners...
Centralization and organization of all learning-related functions into one system, enabling efficient access to these functions via layered interface navigation functions.
Security:
Protection from unauthorized access to courses, learner records, and administrative functions.
Registration:
Finding and selecting or assigning courses, curricula, etc. by learners and their supervisors. This may include instructor-led training classes.
Delivery:
On-demand delivery of learning content and experiences to learners...
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Interaction: Learner interaction with the content and
communication among learners, instructors, course
administrators, as well as between communicative content and
the LMS (i.e. SCORM content).
Assessment: Administering assessments and the collection, tracking, and storing of assessment data, with further actions taken (possibly in other systems) based on the results of assessment. LMS includes the ability to create assessments as well.
Tracking: Tracking of learner data including progress on a predefined set of training goals and requirements, and tracking of courses for usage, especially in relation to required deployment of mandated training (for example, compliance training).
Report: Extraction and presentation of information by administrators and stakeholders about learners and courses, including the information that is tracked as described.
Record keeping: Storage and maintenance of data about learners. This includes both demographical info profiling learners and their training progress and accomplishments. This is especially critical when an LMS is deployed as the official "system of record" for an organization.
Facilitating Reuse: Searching and recombining courses and possibly parts of courses for delivery in different curricula and learning tracks.
Personalization: Configuration of LMS functions, interfaces, and features by learners and administrators to match personal preferences, organizational needs, etc.
Integration: Exchange of data with external systems to facilitate enterprise-wide tracking of learner performance and transfer of user data and to exploit external content and learning resources (i.e. content management systems).
Administration: centralized management all of the functions in this list.
Assessment: Administering assessments and the collection, tracking, and storing of assessment data, with further actions taken (possibly in other systems) based on the results of assessment. LMS includes the ability to create assessments as well.
Tracking: Tracking of learner data including progress on a predefined set of training goals and requirements, and tracking of courses for usage, especially in relation to required deployment of mandated training (for example, compliance training).
Report: Extraction and presentation of information by administrators and stakeholders about learners and courses, including the information that is tracked as described.
Record keeping: Storage and maintenance of data about learners. This includes both demographical info profiling learners and their training progress and accomplishments. This is especially critical when an LMS is deployed as the official "system of record" for an organization.
Facilitating Reuse: Searching and recombining courses and possibly parts of courses for delivery in different curricula and learning tracks.
Personalization: Configuration of LMS functions, interfaces, and features by learners and administrators to match personal preferences, organizational needs, etc.
Integration: Exchange of data with external systems to facilitate enterprise-wide tracking of learner performance and transfer of user data and to exploit external content and learning resources (i.e. content management systems).
Administration: centralized management all of the functions in this list.
Server Security
- Encrypted Data Transmission
- Locking User Accounts After Login Failures
- No third party software accessibility
- One way password encryption
- A hot spare: (alternative server connected for the backup) of all active databases which can be put into use within minute on the primary's failure.
- Secondary backup: vital data will be kept off-site
and can be restored within 8 hours. This is possible because
nightly hard copy backups are created and transferred
monthly to a secured location, and separate servers at
different locations backup data through replication
services...
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Biometric access authentication required to reach server
location.
Other securities such as fire detection, power failure, and climate recursion are full proof.
Detection of malicious activity, reporting activity, and all network access points alert sign management.
Systems have in-place audible and text alert which get triggered if any "critical issues" occur.
Other securities such as fire detection, power failure, and climate recursion are full proof.
Detection of malicious activity, reporting activity, and all network access points alert sign management.
Systems have in-place audible and text alert which get triggered if any "critical issues" occur.
Services
Developing tutorials in DRONA online LCBMS becomes easy and
friendly not just for its features but also because it attracts
various unique services.
- Free online technical development support on level1 and level2 courses*.
- Online Technical development support on level3 and level4 courses on at subsidised rate.
- On request, One-stop support on media asset development at subsidised rate for courses developed on Drona.
- One-stop support on Instructional design support for Content and assessments development at subsidised rate.
- Free access to online media library for courses.
- Connect with users absolutely free through chat, timeline.
- Call any phone in the world absolutlely free***.
- Create your blog notes and publish it absolutley free***.
- Socio-e-groups for user benifits!
- Discussion formus opreated by instructor.
- Particpate in the monthly task game zone to win exclusive prizes.
*this service is available only for content developed in DRONA. Technical support for third party SCO packages, user have subscribe for annual maintance contract.
Benefits
Developing tutorials in DRONA online LCBMS provide various
benefits to verity users:
to Educational Institution and NGOs
Free online technical development support on level1 and level2
courses*.
Online Technical development support on level3 and level4 courses on at subsidised rate.
On request, One-stop support on media asset development at subsidised rate for courses developed on Drona.
One-stop support on Instructional design support for Content and assessments development at subsidised rate.
Free access to online media library for courses.
* this service is available only for content developed in DRONA. Technical support for third party SCO packages, user have subscribe for annual maintance contract.
Online Technical development support on level3 and level4 courses on at subsidised rate.
On request, One-stop support on media asset development at subsidised rate for courses developed on Drona.
One-stop support on Instructional design support for Content and assessments development at subsidised rate.
Free access to online media library for courses.
* this service is available only for content developed in DRONA. Technical support for third party SCO packages, user have subscribe for annual maintance contract.
to Enterprise users
Organisations with an intent to provide online training
programs get the benefit of:
Low Content Development Cost
No Hardware/ Software Installation Cost
No Peripherial Maintanace
No Human Resource Recruitment Cost
Minimal maintanance cost.
24X7 online support.
Low Content Development Cost
No Hardware/ Software Installation Cost
No Peripherial Maintanace
No Human Resource Recruitment Cost
Minimal maintanance cost.
24X7 online support.
to Individual users: Learners
Free registration
Free subscription to 10 tutorials
Get a point for every user invitation
For every 50 user invitation, get subscription to aditional tutorial absolutely free*.
* applied only for non-certified courses.
Free subscription to 10 tutorials
Get a point for every user invitation
For every 50 user invitation, get subscription to aditional tutorial absolutely free*.
* applied only for non-certified courses.
to Individual users: Instructors
Free registration
Free upload for third party package on LMS upto 2 packages*.
Online development support
One stop support on media development
One stop support on Content / assessments development
Symbiotic Income generation through course subscription sharing
Get a point for every student invitation
Redeem every 10 points, get a media assest developed for a tutorial absolutely free**.
Redeem every 50 points, get a tutorial developed in DRONA absolutely free.
Redeem every 500 points, get a course developed in DRONA absolutely free.
*Individual package should not be more than 50 Mb.
** refer point and earn structure in service section.
Free upload for third party package on LMS upto 2 packages*.
Online development support
One stop support on media development
One stop support on Content / assessments development
Symbiotic Income generation through course subscription sharing
Get a point for every student invitation
Redeem every 10 points, get a media assest developed for a tutorial absolutely free**.
Redeem every 50 points, get a tutorial developed in DRONA absolutely free.
Redeem every 500 points, get a course developed in DRONA absolutely free.
*Individual package should not be more than 50 Mb.
** refer point and earn structure in service section.
Our Mission...
...is to provide;
quality education for all uniformly across the globe
the most updated content in the field of education, especially in science and technology in the form of engaging tutorials and courses
quality education for all uniformly across the globe
the most updated content in the field of education, especially in science and technology in the form of engaging tutorials and courses
Our Belief...
"To learn is my Birth right".
"If knowledge is imparted appropriately
anybody can learn".
"If knowledge is imparted appropriately
anybody can learn".
"Within human is all knowledge, even as a child it is so, and
it requires only an awakening and that much is the work of a
teacher."
-Swami Vivekananda-
Based on this philosophical view Our Aim...
...is to:
make learning easier for all learners,
help teachers shift from transfer of content to focus on
explanation and understanding,
help learners to become self-reliant in gaining knowledge
through critical reading and smart questioning,
help teachers to shift from teaching to guiding,
help teachers to go global from regional.
Our Objectives
1.
To provide a system of student-centric and self-paced
learning. Emphasis is laid on the development of specially
designed self-learning study material, so that the students
can freely use their own style of learning with the help of
various teaching/learning aids available in the study
material.
2.
To make higher education available to persons who for
one reason or others are not in a position to pursue studies
under formal programs as regular full time students in
academic institutions.
3.
To make higher education available to all irrespective
of age and place of residence particularly keeping in mind
the need of the working persons and of those residing in
remote areas.
4.
To develop a system of education i.e. neither entirely
separate from nor wholly independent of the formal campus
system of education. This should be a blended system for the
best outcome.
5.
To make higher education available to persons who for
one reason or others are not in a position to persue studies
under formal programs as regular full time students in
academic institutions.
6.
To help students understand the true meaning of
education.
History
The concept DRONA came into existence in 2013 while working on
a research project, EDEX, with Nanyang Technological
University, Singapore, under the supervision of Prof. Salil
Bose (Fellow of Royal Society of Biology UK). The aim of the
research project was to create an online assessment system,
that not only to automate assessment scoring but also to
quantitatively determine student's learning trend.
NIE's (Netimagine Educomp) research and management team further extended the scope of the assessment system to generate Diverse Report on Online Assessment, which gave the system its name DRONA, honouring the great teacher of Indian mythology GURU DRONACHARYA. This system further evolved to a full-fledged "Socio-Learning Management and Content Building Tool" in 2016.
NIE's (Netimagine Educomp) research and management team further extended the scope of the assessment system to generate Diverse Report on Online Assessment, which gave the system its name DRONA, honouring the great teacher of Indian mythology GURU DRONACHARYA. This system further evolved to a full-fledged "Socio-Learning Management and Content Building Tool" in 2016.
A
Step by Step Tool and Guide to develop Online Content
DRONA SLCM-B system a Make in INDIA initiative
A socio-online learning management and content building system with Diverse Reports on ONline Assessment (DronaLMS).
A system capable to articulate and manage different aspect of online content development with ease.
A socio-online learning management and content building system with Diverse Reports on ONline Assessment (DronaLMS).
A system capable to articulate and manage different aspect of online content development with ease.
As
easy as it can be
DronaLMS is user friendly and easy. We built
this to increase your satisfaction and fun from online learning
and training.
Cloud
based product
No need to install, upgrade or backup
anything. DronaLMS is a Cloud based Socio-Learning Management
System and content building tool.
Build
e-learning courses the way you like
DronaLMS provides both fast track and
elaborative ways to develop effective tutorials to comprehensive
courses efficiently.
Reuse,
Recycle and Reduce
Reuse your videos and images, modify and use
your existing presentation or other online material with our
social integrations features and create courses efficiently with
overall reduction in effort.
Customizability
Customize your LMS - regarding domain, logo,
and theme - the way you want it to.
Comprehensibility
Your LMS uses simple and comprehensible
analytics.
Security
Your LMS provides a secured and encrypted
channel for all data communication.
Mobility
Use your LMS with various mobile devices such
as ipad, iphone, and Android.
Versatility
Let your LMS support SCORM, notifications,
course selling, video-conferencing, ramifications, and
extensible user profiles - everything you need.
Maintainability
Built with a preference for conventions over
configurations. This means fewer things to configure, more time
to deliver great online training.
A product by NIE
