Schools to get digital classrooms this year
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:21.02.2019
Operation Digital Board (ODB) would be implemented across 2 lakh classrooms in higher education institutions at a cost of ₹2,000 crore.
The government, in collaboration with the states and UTs, is also planning to implement the scheme across 1.5 lakh secondary and senior secondary government and government-aided schools over a period of three years, according to Union minister for human resource development Prakash Javadekar.
Announcing the scheme on Wednesday, provision for which was made in the Union Budget in 2018, Javadekar said that digital classrooms will make learning as well as teaching interactive and popularize ‘flipped learning’ as a pedagogical approach.
The process will begin from the 2019-20 session. “It will also help in provisioning of personalized adaptive learning as well as intelligent tutoring by exploiting emerging technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and data analytics. An expert committee has worked out optimum configuration of the digital classrooms under ODB,” Javadekar added.
The Union minister said the biggest challenge facing education sector in the country is maintaining acceptable quality standards across the country.
Javadekar said that although we have good number of premier institutions, which compete with the best in the world, a large number of higher education institutions and schools need improvements in quality teaching-learning, as the students coming out of these institutions find themselves unsuitable for the requirements of society and market.
UGC will be the implementing agency for ODB in HEIs. UGC in its commission meeting held on January 29, 2019, has passed a resolution for extending digital education to every classroom in the country by 2022.
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
New Delhi:21.02.2019
Operation Digital Board (ODB) would be implemented across 2 lakh classrooms in higher education institutions at a cost of ₹2,000 crore.
The government, in collaboration with the states and UTs, is also planning to implement the scheme across 1.5 lakh secondary and senior secondary government and government-aided schools over a period of three years, according to Union minister for human resource development Prakash Javadekar.
Announcing the scheme on Wednesday, provision for which was made in the Union Budget in 2018, Javadekar said that digital classrooms will make learning as well as teaching interactive and popularize ‘flipped learning’ as a pedagogical approach.
The process will begin from the 2019-20 session. “It will also help in provisioning of personalized adaptive learning as well as intelligent tutoring by exploiting emerging technologies like machine learning, artificial intelligence and data analytics. An expert committee has worked out optimum configuration of the digital classrooms under ODB,” Javadekar added.
The Union minister said the biggest challenge facing education sector in the country is maintaining acceptable quality standards across the country.
Javadekar said that although we have good number of premier institutions, which compete with the best in the world, a large number of higher education institutions and schools need improvements in quality teaching-learning, as the students coming out of these institutions find themselves unsuitable for the requirements of society and market.
UGC will be the implementing agency for ODB in HEIs. UGC in its commission meeting held on January 29, 2019, has passed a resolution for extending digital education to every classroom in the country by 2022.
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