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30 June 2019

e-Acharya: A gateway to all learners




e-Acharya is an integrated e-content portal developed under National Mission for Education through ICT (NME-ICT). The portal provides facility to search and browse the learners all learning materials includes audio, video, textual materials, etc. through a single interface. The portal cover quality learning resources from top institutions in the country in eight subject categories viz Agriculture Science, Biological Science, Chemical Science, Physical Science, Medical and Health Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Social Sciences, and Arts and Humanities.

You can start your search from the home page using free text search and exact search options. For example search using the keyword 'Nano Science' a total of 1118 records will be displayed, 100 on each page. Each record will contain the title, project name, course,  subject, contributor, institution, key word and the language in which the record is available. On the right side of the record there is option to refine your search. You can  narrow your search by content type, target users, by subjects, by institute and by project name. Each refine term shows how many item included in the term. Take the example of the 'Nano Science' refine by institute - IISc Bangalore, eighteen items contributed by IISc on the topic will get. To select the item click on the title and open it. You can browse by other access points from the record window.

Anyone can register to the portal for free by adding  name, email id and category in which belong. It will help to create a profile and manage the portal in the personalised way. You can select the subject, search on the subject, you can store e-text and videos; You can manage number of collections in your profile, number of visits on the websites, last login time, and login count. You can contribute open access content and any project with special collection. 

Link to portal:  http://eacharya.inflibnet.ac.in 

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