?ICTpost Education Bureau e-Content is the core of any single or multi-media application, whether commercial or not. Practically almost any website, CD, video, or mobile application is built to carry the content to the user or to help the user create his/her own content. E-content today is mostly viewed as a way to preserve and […]
ICTpost Education Bureau The Economist, a well known journal in global circulation, once said that Cloud computing is something that will get geeks excited. According to the journal, cloud computing will definitely affect the lives of everyone. Cloud computing and education sounds ambiguous on the face of it. Naturally, it’s because, very few individuals, publishers […]
ICTpost Education Bureau A masterful instructor is not only a connoisseur of different teaching methods, but also an expert at knowing when to use appropriate teaching strategies for evidence-based achievement of desired learning outcomes. In Education, multimedia is used to produce computer-based training courses (popularly called CBTs) and reference books like encyclopedia and almanacs. A […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Expressing concern that no Indian university featured among the top 200 global institutions, President Pranab Mukherjee has urged the country’s premier educational institutes to step up efforts to join the league of the best. “I must convey my sense of dismay on seeing a recent report that not a single Indian university, […]
ICTpost Education Bureau The tablet is a great tool for education in Indian villages. There is no doubt that teaching our children to operate in a digital world is a good thing. Education that utilizes digital devices is a great way to acclimate children to their future lives, cultures, careers and workplaces. Suddenly, the tablet […]
ICTpost Education Bureau What we are seeing in 2016 and 2017 is a transition to an educational system no longer dominated by traditional education and one or two alternative models. Educational technology and new educational courses and programs are interacting to create new language and models for education. Online learning appears to be a classic […]
ICTpost Governance Bureau Marginalized communities are communities in underserved areas, both urban and rural, that include the following target groups, among others: Women, Persons with Disabilities, Unemployed, Poor, Youth, Elderly, Immigrants and Micro-enterprises. Marginalization can be defined as not belonging to the mainstream culture, and thus lacking the social capital to partake from the benefits […]
PTI? NEW DELHI: Investing in education of girls, especially the most marginalized, is required to make progress on most social indicators in India, according to UNICEF. To mark the International Day of the Girl Child, UNICEF organized a meeting with top Urdu editors in the capital. Speaking at the event, Urmila Sarkar, chief of education […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Private education is big business in India. KPMG pegs the industry at nearly $50 billion and projects it to reach $115 billion by 2018. But growth rates are not uniform across the primary, secondary and tertiary education sectors. The allure of so-called B-schools outside the top tier is fading as the economy […]
Ganesh Subramanian, Director EZ Vidya Private Ltd Traditional classrooms in schools need to be transformed into ?Thinkrooms? with the student profile changing rapidly and the digital natives well-versed in using the gadgets with ease. Such an effort would help in building a ?Meta Thinking? student community for a strong and vibrant India of the future. […]
