DIGITAL INITIATIVES
Technology in Education: A Future Classroom
Digital education and the future of learning
DIGITAL INITIATIVE: A NEED OF HOUR
e-PG Pathshala is an initiative of the MHRD under its National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) being executed by the UGC. The content and its quality being the key component of education
system, high quality, curriculum-based, interactive e-content in 70 subjects across all disciplines of social sciences, arts, fine arts and humanities, natural & mathematical sciences.
SWAYAM is a programme initiated by Government of India and designed to achieve the three cardinal principles of Education Policy viz., access, equity and quality. The objective of this effort is to take the best teaching learning resources to all, including the most disadvantaged. SWAYAM seeks to bridge the digital divide for students who have hitherto remained untouched by the digital revolution and have not been able to join the mainstream of the knowledge economy.
The SWAYAM PRABHA is a group of 32 DTH channels devoted to telecasting of high-quality educational programmes on 24X7 basis using the GSAT-15 satellite. Every day, there will be new content for at least (4) hours which would be repeated 5 more times in a day, allowing the students to choose the time of their convenience. The channels are uplinked from BISAG, Gandhinagar. The contents are provided by NPTEL, IITs, UGC, CEC, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS. The INFLIBNET Centre maintains the web portal.
The DTH Channels shall cover the following:
a).Higher Education: Curriculum-based course contents at post-graduate and under-graduate level covering diverse disciplines such as arts, science, commerce, performing arts, social sciences and humanities, engineering, technology, law, medicine, agriculture, etc. All courses would be certification-ready in their detailed offering through SWAYAM, the platform being developed for offering MOOCs courses.
b).School education (9-12 levels): modules for teacher’s training as well as teaching and learning aids for children of India to help them understand the subjects better and also help them in preparing for competitive examinations for admissions to professional degree programmes.
c).Curriculum-based courses that can meet the needs of life-long learners of Indian citizens in India and abroad.
d).Assist students (class 11th & 12th) prepare for competitive exams.
NISHTHA : National Initiative for School Heads’ and Teachers’ Holistic Advancement
NISHTHA is a capacity building programme for “Improving Quality of School Education through Integrated Teacher Training”. It aims to build competencies among all the teachers and school principals at the elementary stage. The functionaries (at the state, district, block, cluster level) shall be trained in an integrated manner on learning outcomes, school based assessment, learner – centred pedagogy, new initiatives in education, addressing diverse needs of children through multiple pedagogies, etc. This will be organized by constituting National Resource Groups (NRGs) and State Resource Groups (SRGs) at the National and the State level who will be training 42 lakhs teachers subsequently. A robust portal/Management Information System (MIS) for delivery of the training, monitoring and support mechanism will also be infused with this capacity building initiative.
The main expected outcomes from NISHTHA are:
Improvement in learning outcomes of the students.
Creation of an enabling and enriching inclusive classroom environment
Teachers become alert and responsive to the social, emotional and psychological needs of students as first level counselors.
Teachers are trained to use Art as pedagogy leading to increased creativity and innovation among students.
Teachers are trained to develop and strengthen personal-social qualities of students for their holistic development.
Creation of healthy and safe school environment.
Integration of ICT in teaching learning and assessment.
Developing stress free School Based Assessment focused on development of learning competencies.
Teachers adopt Activity Based Learning and move away from rote learning to competency based learning.
Teachers and School heads become aware of new initiatives in school education.
Transformation of the Heads of Schools into providing academic and administrative leadership for the schools for fostering new initiatives
DIKSHA is a unique initiative which leverages existing highly scalable and flexible digital infrastructures, while keeping teachers at the center. It is built considering the whole teacher’s life cycle – from the time student teachers enroll in Teacher Education Institutes (TEIs) to after they retire as teachers.
#In-class resources
#Teacher training content
#Assessment aids
#Teacher profile
#News and announcement
#Teacher community
These features have emerged from consultations with multiple state governments, NGOs and more than 30 public and private organisations, who have collaborated in contributing to DIKSHA.
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