This study provides an overview about massive open online courses (MOOCs), about how technology has changed over the years the face of distance learning and how relevant and beneficial these courses might be for distance learners. Studies related to MOOCs in India and world around have been reviewed. It also furnishes the details of various MOOCs platform such as The Open University, Iversity, ALISON, Open Learning, Coursera, Udacity, EdX and EduKart available free of cost to distance learners. This paper further provides availability of MOOCs in India and various institutions and companies associated across the nation providing MOOCs courses to academia. Limitations of MOOCs and their future has also been discussed. The paper concludes that MOOCs and online education has a huge potential which would help in accelerating and ensuring social cohesion and sustainable growth. With little efforts by the government of India, online education can successfully reach every individual.
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<p>Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) as a tool is being used for the better governance and management of libraries. A RFID system offers a complete package from security, theft detection, tracking, monitoring, inventory control, and act as an expedient in books circulation or charging and discharging of books; and, lessens the burden of librarians, who could be better redeployed to other productive activities in the service of the readers. RFID technology was implemented in Defence Science Library, Defence Scientific Information & Documentation Centre (DESIDOC), Delhi, in 2013. The study describes the process of implementation of RFID system in the Defence Science Library, at DESIDOC. It provides an overview of the work to implement the RFID system including the philosophy or the background or thought process that had gone into deciding in its implementation, the various features, technical specification of the library automation software and system itself. The constraints faced during the data migration and the visible advantages from the users’ perspective vis-à-vis manual operation are also covered. The study concludes that implementation of RFID technology has brought a bouquet of benefits to librarians, the staff and scientists or user of the Library. </p>
In this paper, an analysis of 806 highly cited articles was carried out based on the data retrieved from SCOPUS multidisciplinary database on ‘Coronavirus’ research published during 1970-2019 and 2020. The term ‘Coronavirus’ was used to retrieve data from the fields - title, abstract & keyword. Further, an analysis was carried out for the citation life cycle of the highly cited articles, performance of authors, institutions, country, and journals. During the period a total of 18,116 articles published up to 2019; and 1221 articles published in 2020 till 30 March 2020. The articles with more than 100 citations were taken as highly cited articles in coronavirus research. On this basis, there were 806 articles with more than 100 citations and considered for the data analysis. The highly cited articles were mostly published from the USA. The ‘Journal of Virology’ was most productive journal publishing most of the highly cited articles. These highly cited articles were published between 1973 to 2016. The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong was the most productive institute, published most number of highly cited articles. Kwok Yung Yuen from the University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen was the most productive author, who has published most number of highly cited articles. The seven articles had shown ‘sleeping beauty’ characteristics in citation trends.
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