On 03/03/2014 05:16 PM, varadarajan narayanan wrote:
Hi !
Before you make an issue of this , please check if they have the
platform for SSO like OpenID and anyone can join with an e-mail ID
which is SSO compliant .
The link given opens a page requiring Gmail login. there is no question
of any other email id working.
It may be gmail is one of the players. Also instead of simply raising
slogans against gmail,
it is quite legitimate to raise a protest against something we consider
wrong (without necessarily offering solutions as well), don't be patronising
see how you can provide an alternative and give some constructive
suggestions.
Can you give us some points in a para or two, which we can put in the
letter to MHRD on technically what they could do.
Are you willing to pitch in and help them if they need help in SSO ?
So the first step may be asking them what is the road map and if the
follow standards for OpenID . There are many open source platforms for
openID.
Cheers
Rad
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 6:18 AM, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]> <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Mon, Mar 3, 2014 at 4:40 PM, Nagarjuna G
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Monday, March 03, 2014 03:17:36 PM Guru गुरु wrote:
> NPTEL have come out with a course on Programming, Data
Structures and
> Algorithms
<https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/programming101> which is
> laudable... it is perhaps the first MOOC offering from MHRD.
> However to
> Sign Up
<https://onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/programming101/register>
>
> A gmail account seems to be compulsory. Not clear why some
one who wants
> to study a course from MHRD, Government of India MUST have a
GMAIL id?
> (I think not long ago, Google's offer to Election Commission
to 'manage
> the voter information' was rejected but only after some
protests from
> political parties).
>
> Does anyone have more info on this matter?
>
When I saw the ad in the paper the other day, I found the
footer of the ad has google as one of the partner. I am sure
they are using google apps for this mooc. therefore, without
gmail id the students cannot register.
Also if you see the header of the ad, all the iits have been
listed.
What a share? Even wth all the iits of India put together they
cannot make a mooc platform that can free the Indian students
the dependence from Google.
I think we should send a representation immediately. Immediate
reactions sometimes work. Let us do a campaign!
What do others think about this?
Yes we should give a representation
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