Teaching and Research

NPTEL provides E-learning through online web and video courses in engineering, science and humanities streams.

A wiki is a web application which allows people to add, modify or delete content in collaboration with others.

Cloud computing is a type of computing that relies on sharing computing resources rather than having local servers or personal devices to handle applications.

In computing, a uniform resource identifier (URI) is a string of characters used to identify the name of a web resource.

Enhanced publications are a form of electronic publishing for the dissemination and sharing of research outcomes, whose first formal definition can be traced back to 2009. As many forms of digital publications, they typically feature a unique identifier (possibly a persistent identifier) and descriptive metadata information.

A think tank (or policy institute, research institute, etc.) is an organisation that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology and culture.

The term cognition is used in several loosely related ways to refer to a faculty for the human-like processing of information, applying knowledge and changing preferences.

Apache Tomcat (or simply Tomcat, formerly also Jakarta Tomcat) is an open source web server and servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF).

A virtual machine is a software based, fictive computer. Virtual machines may be based on specifications of a hypothetical computer or emulate the computer architecture and functions of a real world computer.

Focus is a grammatical category that determines which part of the sentence contributes new, non-derivable or contrastive information. Focus is related to information structure.

Function words (or grammatical words or synsemantic words or structure-class words) are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.

CEC has established and is running an exclusive 24 X 7 CEC-UGC Higher Education Satellite Channel of MHRD called Vyas channel. The 24 X 7 transmission is based on educational content produced on various undergraduate subjects to supplement the classroom teaching.

Oculesics, a subcategory of kinesics, is the study of eye movement, eye behaviour, gaze and eye-related non-verbal communication.

Intrapersonal communication is extremely private and restricted to ourselves. It includes the silent conversations we have with ourselves, wherein we juggle roles between the sender and receiver who are processing our thoughts and actions. This process of communication, when analysed, can either be conveyed verbally to someone or stay confined as thoughts.

Downward communication approach is used by the top level management to communicate to the lower levels. This is used to implement policies, guidelines, etc. In this type of organisational communication, distortion of the actual information occurs. This could be made effective by feedbacks.

Cognitive science is the interdisciplinary scientific study of the mind and its processes.

Eloquence (from Latin eloquentia) is fluent, forcible, elegant or persuasive speaking. It is primarily the power of expressing strong emotions in striking and appropriate language, thereby producing conviction or persuasion. The term is also used for writing in a fluent style.

Human communication, or anthroposemiotics, is the field dedicated to understanding how people communicate.

Epistemology is the branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope of knowledge and is also referred to as theory of knowledge.

Promoting and coordinating university education is one of the mandate of UGC.