Vision of National Digital Educational Architecture (NDEAR)
NDEAR needs a core that is always changing and learning in order to be effective over time. This is reflected in NDEAR’s design and institutional framework as well as in the organization’s mission.
- Digital Infrastructure: Digital infrastructure is a collection of open-source parts and building blocks that may be used to create a wide range of beneficiaries’ and users’ solutions.
- Unifying: A framework of standards, resources, and protocols that all systems and organizations may connect to and use to their advantages. Frameworks and standards can be for technology- and domain-related issues.
- Diverse Ecosystem: Comprises a variety of actors and stakeholders in the education ecosystem, including the Central and State/UT governments; School systems (public, private, formal, informal, alternative); Civil society organizations, community, and private entities; Education experts, pedologists, and technologists; Learners, parents, teachers, and school administration.
- Unbundled: Components and building elements that may be used to create a variety of solutions and exist independently.
- Interoperable: This refers to systems’ ability to connect with one another as needed using open standards and APIs. This involves interoperability across systems and domains including school education, higher education, health, child development, social justice, juvenile welfare, tribal welfare, minority affairs, and others (based on acceptable norms, administrative, and legal frameworks).
- Evolving: As the world and its demands change, so do learning objectives and requirements. In order to solve systemic difficulties highlighted in the present and the future, NDEAR must be an evolving system.
National Digital Educational Architecture (NDEAR)
NDEAR (National Digital Educational Architecture) was established as part of the Digital First Mindset, under the Union Budget 2021–22, where the Center and the States/Union Territories use Digital Architecture to assist educational planning as well as teaching and learning activities.
To ensure that instructors, students, and schools have a smooth digital learning experience, NDEAR will be helpful for the Center and States in planning, managing, and supervising school education. The NDEAR’s institutional design, governance framework, technology, and data will be advantageous to both students and teachers as a whole.
The NDEAR project does not involve the creation of technological solutions for the educational ecosystem by the government. Through NDEAR, the government act as an enabler, offering a framework that allows anyone to create technology. The use of NDEAR frameworks, standards, and specifications would also qualify solutions as NDEAR compliant. Any technological solution that is NDEAR-compliant will be able to connect with other NDEAR-compliant technological solutions. State governments would be unrestricted in their efforts to develop solutions that meet their requirements.
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