Saturday, March 16, 2019

MHRD to work with Af govt on several IIT-enabled digital education initiatives

Ram.Sundaram@timesgroup.com

Chennai:16.03.2019

The ministry of human resource development (MHRD) is all set to work with the Afghanistan government on digital education initiatives. This includes many prominent programs developed by Indian Institutes of Technology.

A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed at IIT Madras in connection with this on Friday. This MoU will facilitate use of massive open online courses (MOOCs) available on SWAYAM platform by students and faculties of educational institutions in Afghanistan.

Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM), developed by Government of India, was launched in 2017.

According to an official release, Afghan students and teachers will be trained for using this platform so that they can learn latest technology courses and upskill them in their areas of interest.

Apart from this, existing courses developed by Afghan institutions will be uploaded on the said platform, and ministry of higher education, Afghanistan, will be assisted to develop their own MOOC platform.

For full report, www.toi.in

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