Intervention of Smart Ecosystem in Indian Higher Education System: Inclusiveness, Quality and Accountability

In the knowledge age, the human society largely depends on both inclusive growth and superior quality of higher education system. The world is transforming very fast and it tends to celebrate the fourth industrial revolution that extends from the information processing and automation to the extent of replication of human intelligence. The emerging protocol of artificial intelligence, RFID, cloud computing, block chain and machine learning are the gamut of resources which essentially would embody the teaching–learning process more effective and result-oriented. In India, the use of e-resources like MOOC, e-learning, Swyam have been experimented and they enjoy popularity and success among the users. However, the higher education system of the country is severely compromised by regular flow of information and databases. It is affecting the quality of teaching–learning process and research. It is high time to have a centralized database reservoir which would contribute to every learning organization, irrespective of government, private or NGO. The database would be collected and preserved by a national e-resource portal which could be accessed by any individual or institution with or without any processing fees; otherwise the direction and continuum of academia and research would have to be severely affected. The present study has attempted to showcase how the various e-resources are integrated into Indian education system. The paper would also approach and present a prototype model on how a comprehensive e-resource portal can be developed and optimized to ensure collection, preservation and access of data set.