INDIA
Knowledge network expands learning
Alya Mishra
05 February 2012 Issue No:207
Sarat Jain, nodal officer of the National Knowledge Network at Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya in Jabalpur, central India, sits comfortably in the university staffroom, browsing through an online journal. It might seem a fairly mundane activity in universities and colleges around the world, but for Jain it is a novelty.
Before his university was connected to the National Knowledge Network, or NKN, academics could not access journals online. Even internet browsing, with its low speed, was time-consuming.
The network, which aims to promote research by connecting top universities, research institutes and labs, and central institutions like the Indian institutes of technology (IITs) via fibre-optic link, has enabled the university’s staff to access more than 2,000 online journals.
The university is also able to video-conference with its constituent colleges in the small towns of Rewa, Tikamgarh and Ganjba…
Knowledge network expands learning
Alya Mishra
05 February 2012 Issue No:207
Sarat Jain, nodal officer of the National Knowledge Network at Jawaharlal Nehru Krishi Vishwavidyalaya in Jabalpur, central India, sits comfortably in the university staffroom, browsing through an online journal. It might seem a fairly mundane activity in universities and colleges around the world, but for Jain it is a novelty.
Before his university was connected to the National Knowledge Network, or NKN, academics could not access journals online. Even internet browsing, with its low speed, was time-consuming.
The network, which aims to promote research by connecting top universities, research institutes and labs, and central institutions like the Indian institutes of technology (IITs) via fibre-optic link, has enabled the university’s staff to access more than 2,000 online journals.
The university is also able to video-conference with its constituent colleges in the small towns of Rewa, Tikamgarh and Ganjba…