Measuring the Usage Analysis of Open Educational Resources In India: A Case Study of e-PG Pathshala
Creators: name: Panda, Subhajit
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Open Educational Resources
OER
Online Educational Platform in India
Massive Open Online Courses
MOOCs
OpenCourseWare
OCW
e-Learning in India
e-PG Pathshala
Usage Statistics of e-PG Pathshala
Artificial Intelligence &amp; MOOCs
AI

description: Open Educational Resources (OER) are a new way of learning in the existing era without any geographical barrier and almost free of cost. There are two types of OER depends upon the way it approaches its user, OCW and MOOCs. In India, e-PG Pathshala is such an initiative of MHRD maintained by UGC-INFLIBNET under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NMEICT). This paper tries to investigate the usage pattern of e-PG Pathshala in respect to geographical coverage and subject areas. The data analysis of the present study is done based on the manually collected data of visitors of the continents; top 20 fields of countries, states and cities in India, subject field; and top 10 modules of LIS. The findings of the study reveal that Asia holds the maximum coverage of e-PG visitors with the country India which has almost 82% of total e-PG visitors. In India, Majority of e-PG visitors covers by the state Uttar Pradesh (51428, 17%) while Delhi and New Delhi are the cities with highest visitor coverage (11% both). In the subject field, LIS occupies the highest number of e-PG visitors (16%) followed by Chemistry (9%) and English (8%). For statistical analysis, the dataset of the three variables, subject-wise total module, total visitors and visitors/module did not significantly match with a normal distribution while a weak and negative correlation was observed between Modules-Visitors, a negative correlation was observed between Modules-Visitors/Module and a strong positive correlation found between Visitors-Visitors/Module.
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