New Delhi: The All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has embraced the Creative Common Licence, enabling both Indian and international students to effortlessly access the AICTE study materials. AICTE also created an e-Kumbh platform for submitting completed e-books.
In the second year, there are 88 courses, 42 degree levels, and 46 diploma levels. The majority of these technical publications were produced by prominent authors from IITs, NITs, etc. The licence has been established in accordance with the UNESCO resolution on open educational resources from November 25, 2019 (Paris, France) (OER).
It also enables the AICTE study material consistent with Open Educational Resources, which preserves the owner's rights to intellectual property while simultaneously enabling the general public access to, reuse, repurpose, adapt, and redistribute teaching programs.
The licence has currently been granted for the Second yearbooks that have been released on the e-Kumbh portal in both English and other Indian languages.
The further volumes for the II and III and IV years in English and 12 other Indian languages will additionally be published in the future under the aforementioned licence.
The aforesaid licence is in line with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 4 - Quality Education, as proclaimed by the United Nations to alter our world by making quality engineering publications produced by AICTE available to thousands of students, professors, and institutions around the globe.
According to Professor T. G. Sitharam, the chairman of AICTE, millions of Indian and international students will be able to use the high-quality materials created by AICTE for their studies and classroom instruction thanks to the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 licensing to the AICTE publications.
According to the chairman, "it will permit others to reproduce and redistribute the material in any manner or format, remix the material, change it, and improve it for any non-commercial purpose."
In accordance with the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, the (AICTE) started a technical book writing programme in the year 2021 to write technical books in 12 different Indian languages: Hindi, Odia, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Assamese, Urdu, and Malayalam.
According to AICTE's model curriculum and result education model, original books were initially written in English for the first year and then translated into 12 Indian languages after the original authoring.
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