LEJ4Learning

Latif Ebrahim Jamal National Science Information Center (International Center for Chemical and Biological Sciences, University of Karachi) is serving as a hub of information dissemination and propagation of knowledge in frontier sciences in Pakistan, equipped with cutting edge information and communication technologies and with full access to world’s largest library resources. The LEJ Center at the ICCBS has been serving as the focal center of the Virtual Education Project Pakistan (VEPP) that is led and supervised by Professor Atta-ur-Rahman FRS (Patron-in-Chief), in association with Prof. M. Iqbal Choudhary, Director ICCBS. The vision of the program is to provide an interface for the researchers and reputed institutions from around the world to collaborate, share and enhance their knowledge with deployed on a world-class ICT infrastructure. The LEJ National Science Information Center (ICCBS) at University of Karachi has launched a new program, named “LEJ Knowledge Hub” for integrated and open learning. This is an integrated MOOC approach. The unique feature of this approach is to integrate thousands of video lectures of full courses from top Universities around the world (MIT, Udacity, Stanford Engineering Everywhere, Open Yale Courses, NPTEL, Khan Academy and Virtual University of Pakistan) at different levels, i.e. school, undergraduate and graduate in various fields. Anyone can get free and ready access to the required fields of study and no need to go to different MOOCs to have access in search of the desired material. The rights for free broadcasting and non-commercial dissemination have also been obtained. The compilation and integration of lej4learning is directly supervised by most celebrated scientist of Pakistan, Prof. Dr. Atta–ur-Rahman FRS as a monumental service to the nation and world at large.