The RRC aims to be a resource base and platform for facilitating and augmenting networking amongst teacher practitioners and between them and the academic community through face to face and the electronic mode. As an important component of this, the web-portal, eledu.net is expected to facilitate the flow of information within the USRN and enable access to USRN activities by interested individuals and groups.
Eledu.net aims to enable an off-line community of elementary school practitioners already established as part of programmes such as the BElEd and proposed to be further augmented through the projects of USRN to also come on-line, thereby encouraging teacher practitioners to develop a common vocabulary that can foster exchange of ideas, subject-content, pedagogic approaches and children’s learning processes.
Eledu.net also aims to provide an open forum for exchange of ideas that have emerged under USRN and to make available diverse interactive spaces to encourage dialogue amongst the elementary education community.
The collaborative projects under the USRN are in the process of facilitating a community of teachers and teacher-trainees across schools and teacher education institutes to evolve. Hence, the dialogue that emerges between them on several aspects of their work can be put into public space for wider dissemination, sharing and discussion. The RRC will enable the flow of reports and documentation from individual projects within the USRN by making them accessible through eledu.net
eledu.net is geared to provide

• Library resource such as readings on elementary education, including books, research papers, journal articles, research study reports, policy documents and commission reports. A panel of academics from across different disciplines will ensure that the content is authentic, relevant and up-to-date. Efforts are being made to make the readings available in Hindi as well.
• platform for researchers to share their work with academics and practitioners in elementary education. It will also invite teacher educators and student-teachers to share materials generated during pre-service training, such as reports of projects undertaken by student-teachers during pre-service training.
• Discussion groups for knowledge sharing and knowledge generation on key issues and concerns between the various stakeholders in elementary education, teachers, student-teachers, teacher educators and other academics.
• A separate space within and across groups ofpractitioners and academia to seek answers to specific queries and exchange views on a diverse set of issues and concerns such as: a particular concept; a reading; a pedagogic approach, a classroom concern with regard to the textbook, children’s errors or issues of discipline and peer interaction.
• A calendar of forthcoming events, including film screenings, public lectures and workshops organized by the RRC; meetings, sharing sessions, workshops etc organized by each of the partner organizations.
• E-mail accountsfor member users to facilitate interaction. This facility can be extended to the larger community as the network widens and demands increase.

Technology
The site is built using Drupal which is one of the popular Open Source Content Management Systems. For more information on Drupal please visit http://drupal.org.
Hindi transliteration capabilities on the site is enabled by a contributed module called UniSaraswati Devnagari Transliterator in the Drupal Community. http://drupal.org/project/unisaraswati.