Diksha Infrastructure
DIKSHA - Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing) is the national infrastructure platform for school education in India used widely across the country by crores of users in 35 plus languages. DIKSHA has been identified as a Digital Public Good (DPG) by Government of India and architected as a set of building blocks in compliance with principles laid out in NDEAR.
Vidya Samiksha Kendras
The NDEAR compliant Vidya Samiksha Kendra (VSK) is an institutional setup that will enable integrated and shared 'seeing' for amplifying data-based decision making and actioning by key stakeholders for academic and non-academic activities and thereby improving learning outcomes. VSKs are being rolled out at national level as well as by 9 states.
Micro Improvements
Micro-improvements cater to the objective of making the improvement process easy, simple, and achievable for every teacher and leader in the education system. The approach uses the 'learning by doing' concept. Micro Improvements are enabled through Digital Projects and are available to leaders at all levels through the National Infrastructure for Education - DIKSHA.
School, Teacher and Student Registries
These are the core federated 4th generation registries (not kept central, but kept within various State/ Centre/ department systems which are the primary keeper of that data) for accessing school, teacher and student information. The registries will be designed to be easily accessible by other building blocks and usable through "registry-as-a-service with open APIs" beyond the traditional portals for end users to view and access.
Energised Textbooks
Energised textbooks provide access to efficient learning experiences for students by linking relevant digital learning resources to the textbook. The resources are available for any-time, anywhere offline and online use across various consumption interfaces.600 Million+ printed Energised Textbooks with 12 Billion + QR codes linked to relevant and diverse contents are in the hands of students across 35 states.
Capacity building of teachers, administrators
Anytime, anywhere access to digital courses and training. Several centre and state level training programs such as NISHTHA were launched training 2.5 Million + teachers so far in 10+ languages with a 4x speed and at 5% cost as compared to offline training.
National Quizzes
The periodic rollout of quizzes to provide an interactive format for joyful learning and promote healthy competition. Several national quizzes such as Joyful Mathematics, Science, Reading Comprehension, Constitution of India, Yoga, etc were launched.
VidyaDaan
A program to source high quality content in a controlled manner leading to diversity in content. This allows individuals & organisations to contribute e-learning resources that are used by students and teachers across the country. 20+ centre and state education organisations have leveraged this and 2 lakh + rich and diverse digital learning contents have been contributed from 11K+ contributors.
Periodic Assessments
5 states have rolled out digitising periodic physical assessments using Phygital - Saral to identify learning levels of the students. Using this, 1000 Million + assessment records of 27 Million + students have been scanned and converted to digital form.
Micro-learning Courses for Students
Chapter-wise micro-learning courses as a supplementary or revision for students were launched by several states, with 30K+ learning sessions happening and 44 Million verifiable credentials issued.
Virtual Labs for Students
Leveraging the learning building blocks of NDEAR, virtual labs provide a set of tools and content that provide a visual, interactive and immersive experience for students and teachers to understand and appreciate important concepts. Virtual labs bring these experiences especially to students who may be deprived of functional lab experience to conduct hands-on experiments. Virtual labs content is published by NCERT for Science and Mathematics subjects across Grades 9 to 12 on DIKSHA.