Dr. Shakila Shamsu, Former OSD (NEP), Ministery of Higher Education, Gov. of India Some Facts: South Asia (SA)has one fifths of the world population.Has the largest number of people living below poverty line Economic and social development cannot be achieved without optimizing human resources for which education is the critical factor. Illiteracy is one of […]
Dr. Shakila Shamsu, Former OSD (NEP), Dept. of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Gov. of India Prof. Sudharshan Seneviratne, Former High Commissioner of Sri Lanka Shri Wajahat Habibulla, Former Chief Information Commissioner of India
The Economist Many colleges and universities were started in India for removing regional imbalances and for supporting education of weaker and disadvantaged classes, particularly of women. These institutions and other developmental programs for weaker classes are still facing resource constraints, which are further aggravated by ignorance, poverty and disadvantages of the people they serve. This […]
ICTpost News Network About 20% of rural children have no textbooks at home, according to the Annual State of Education Report (ASER) survey conducted in September, the sixth month of school closures due to COVID-19 across the country. In Andhra Pradesh, less than 35% of children had textbooks, and only 60% had textbooks in Rajasthan. […]
By Gartner 1. Adaptive Learning Adaptive learning is a concept that traces its roots back to at least the 1950s, but the ability to capture learner data through online learning has provided a breakthrough. True adaptive learning is a type of crowdsourcing and big data collection. The real value of adaptive learning lies in the […]
By Dr. Sam Pitroda Education is empowering and redefining. For hundreds of millions of the young in India, education is also about discipline, development, curiosity, creativity and a path to breaking the cycle of ignorance and poverty leading to employment and prosperity. I know this because as a poor kid from a tribal village in […]
ICTpost Education Bureau Web 2.0 websites and educational apps are good tools in education. The problem is that they all fall short when it comes to talking about technology skills. Identifying and teaching transferable technology skills are crucial for students to not only be college and career ready, but also to prepare them to lead […]
ICTpost Education Bureau India has one of the largest education systems in the world with a network of more than 1 million schools and 18,000 higher education institutions. More than half of the country’s 1.2 billion population falls in the target market for education and related services.In India, e-learning courses could be made more popular […]
Professor N.V.VargheseDirector, Centre for Policy Research in Higher Education
ICTpost Education Bureau Lots of countries around the world have been, and are, engaged in efforts to connect all of their schools to the Internet and for those schools that are already connected, to connect them faster. No other technology has grown as rapidly throughout history. By 2021, 4 billion people will be connected to […]
