NEW DELHI: The human resource development (HRD) ministry has asked top higher educational institutions, including IITs, to create e-learning modules for self-use and open source courses for the larger education eco-system amid the disruption caused by the covid-19 outbreak.
The ministry has asked them to adopt credit transfer to bring cohesion among institutions and make online and offline education seamless during this crisis.
The ministry has also advised them to prepare facilities for the covid-19 situation. At least two central universities--Aligarh Muslim University and Benaras Hindus University--are readying quarantine facilities in case the local administration needs them.