Indira Gandhi National Open University(IGNOU) इंदिरा गांधी राष्ट्रीय मुक्त विश्वविद्यालय (इग्नू)
The National Centre for Innovations in Distance Education (NCIDE) is a facility for promoting, supporting, re-engineering and disseminating innovations in Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system. It is a ground for nurturing bright and inquisitive minds whose ideas and explorations are expected to revolutionize the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system and thus, provide for transforming India into a learning society. Over the years, NCIDE has tried to develop a culture of innovation in the university by organizing a variety of innovation and entrepreneurial activities for the students as well as the faculty. It is also very actively recognizing, promoting, supporting and nurturing the innovator and entrepreneur students and alumni of the university.
NCIDE has not only created an Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem in the university but is also strengthening it in a big way through the Institution’s Innovation Council and Startup Policy, Pre-Incubation Program, Incubation Centre, Patent Facilitation Unit, and Mentoring Scheme.
The Centre has conducted hundreds of activities and programmes in the field of Innovation, Entrepreneurship and IPR. Students and Faculty of IGNOU have developed a large number ofideas, prototypes and innovations. Many students have developed viable Business Plans, andlaunched a considerable number of startup ventures. To further strengthen the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Ecosystem across the country Innovation Clubs have been setup at various IGNOU Regional Centres.
The objectives of NCIDE include:
To achieve its objectives, the NCIDE has been focusing on the seven thrust areas including:
Recognizing the importance of innovation, in the year 2005 a vision was born, and a seed was planted with the creation of the National Centre for Innovation in Distance Education (NCIDE), a Centre dedicated for innovation.
NCIDE stepped in as a resource centre, a think-tank, and a creative lab-offering intellectual and technological support to educators, administrators, and learners. Initially, the centre collaborated with schools and divisions of IGNOU, developed and piloted prototypes, and created models that could eventually be adopted by the larger system through Build-Operate-Transfer (BOT) mode.
Throughout the years the team at NCIDE has dedicated itself to support the ODL system intellectually, and technologically. It has built several innovative teaching, learning and support solutions in the areas of mobile enabled teaching, learning and training, Interactive Multimedia based content, audio-books, virtual lab, On-Demand Examination System, Multipurpose Digital Question Bank, E-Test, Science@Mobile, ShodhDhara, Research Repository, Research-Mate, Innovation Management System, Web Enabled Academic Services (WEAS) etc. NCIDE also developed products and services in project mode with funding from external agencies like UNICEF, WHO and Vigyan Prasar.
NCIDE has been continuously engaged in developing products and prototypes for IGNOU and other international agencies. At the same time, it has embarked on a journey to foster a culture of innovation and entrepreneurship among the students, alumni and faculty of IGNOU through setting up Innovation Clubs at IGNOU headquarters and RCs, establishing Institution Innovation Council (IIC), organizing festival of ideas, smart IGNOU hackathons, student innovation award, startup award, student empowerment programmes in the areas of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship etc.
Greetings!
Innovation is not just about having a new idea, it is about finding a better way, sometimes in the smallest, most unexpected moments. At the National Centre for Innovation in Distance Education (NCIDE), that’s really what we do. We experiment, we innovate, and we adapt. We see innovation as a way of thinking, a steady, ongoing search for better ways to identify, recognise, nurture, and mentor our innovator and entrepreneur learners, faculty and IGNOU Community,and, through them, the society.
We are here for anyone who has the drive to innovate, solve problems, or make a difference to the humanity may it be our learners, our faculty, and the wider IGNOU family or other Higher Education Institutions. At NCIDE we run awareness programs, pre-incubation programs on Innovation, Entrepreneurship and IPR, provide incubation, mentoring, patent filing support, and we make it a point to recognise and celebrate the innovator and entrepreneur learners, alumni and faculty.
If you have an innovative idea and intend to launch a start-up/business, or you are already running a venture/small scale business and wish to scale it up, we invite you to register with us through our IGNOU Udyami Portal.Let us innovate together to meet the vision of ViksitBharat@2047.NCIDE at IGNOU isn’t just a centre. It is a movement. A culture. A promisethat no learner, no idea, and no dream will be left behind.
Director, NCIDE
Centre for Innovation in Distance Education (NCIDE)
Zakir Hussain Bhawan, Block-G
Indira Gandhi National Open University,
Maidan Garhi, New Delhi- 110068
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