On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 2:12 pm Guru <[email protected]> wrote: Dear friends
ITfC has been working with Government High School teachers in Karnataka over last five years on ICT integration into education for their professional development, through the 'subject teacher forum' program. The program platform is a custom distribution of GNU/Linux. I recently came across a study of viewership statistics, from the USA, on online courses, which covered private initiatives such as Khan Academy as well as Coursera, and major universities such as MIT etc, all offering free access. It appears the most consistent beneficiaries are in fact school teachers, although they are all eligible for and receive many hours of paid refresher training per annum at public cost. The article commented that the value proposition in such non-denominational courseware turns out to be far higher than the material developed specifically for that audience. This is not meant to be a comment about the actual content of this particular initiative or the audience. However, it does imply that the 'form' in which information is presented, when the recipients are in fact professionals in this sector, is at least as important as the content. I hope this is useful. Vickram This year we will have workshops for Hindi language teachers. Our team had some doubts on the keyboard layout for the IBUS application, if any of you can help us, pls let me know off-list thanks Guru -- Gurumurthy Kasinathan Director, IT for Change In Special Consultative Status with the United Nations ECOSOC www.ITforChange.Net| Cell:91 9845437730 | Tel:91 80 26654134, 26536890 My search engine is https://duckduckgo.com. Make it yours. _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
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