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Making Technology Accessible to All

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Sandeep Arya “There is a lot of scope for a tablet to show its importance in the education,” says Sandeep Arya, MD, Amtrak Info System & Amtrak Group.

He is a seasoned veteran with an experience of over two decades in the IT sector. He also presided as Chairman at Presto Infosolutions (P) Ltd and Data Gold Softwares (P) Ltd. He is on the Executive Committee of The Association of British Scholars and an active member of the European Business Group, the British Business group, FICCI, ASSOCHAM and CII. Recently, he has also been appointed as the General Secretary of the Telecom Industries Services Association (TISA). In conversation with Pragya Gupta, ENN

 

Please share the genesis of Amtrak Info Systems.
Amtrak Technologies Ltd is a customised solutions provider company incorporated in 1991 that specialises in IT, Audio-Visual, Electronics and Communications solutions. Amtrak has recently entered into the segment of producing user-friendly technology products, with its newly presented ‘My Buddy’. Started in the year 2012, Amtrak Infosystems believes in bringing about a change in the age of technology by introducing that was never seen before. Amtrak Info System aims at bringing more comprehensible products and support services to its customers with its presence growing pan-India.
Our aim is to make our path-breaking technological solutions accessible to maximum users across India by tapping on its business network in the market. Our designing team is situated in Singapore while two manufacturing units are located in China.
Our business model targets every medium that can sell ranging from the traditional B2B, Channel medium to reach out to customers and Online Selling. The underlying principle is to produce innovative product line-ups that benefit customers as per their requirements. The company’s core strength lies in designing its products in-house with the utmost creativity. It emphasizes on manufacturing hi-tech products at an affordable range.

How do you see the role of ICT in Education?
ICT definitely sees a clear path in the education segment. India is highly receptive to technology at every industry, and when technology innovations are aimed at providing ease, there is pure success to it. ICT has already begun in spreading its wings in the education segment by introducing some of the most innovative ideas for bringing education closer to learners. With the already emerging ideas of ICT in Education, such as, smart teaching aids, virtual class room and classboard, there can be seen immense scope for many more such IT innovations to be introduced.

How do you see the importance of tablets in education?
A tablet must not be just seen advancement to a laptop or desktop, but there’s a lot more to it. With its quality of being light-weight and ‘on the go’, a tablet can be your book, your sketch book, your blackboard, and even your classroom. There is a lot of scope for a tablet to show its importance in the education sector.

How does your solution integrate with today’s classrooms?
We are yet to define a package of solutions for the education segment, but we aim at bringing a complete innovation when we present our education tablets. This will be a true benefit for the students where the student will actually feel the importance of its My Buddy as much as his or her books.

ICT Encourages Out of Box Thinking

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Dr Lilly George
Managing Director Name: Dr Lilly George
Website: www.shalomhills.com
Number of Students: 2000 plus
Number of faculty and staff: 200 plus

Dl3Shalomhills International School, Gurgaon

ICT in the classroom

The school is using interactive whiteboards, projectors, and virtual labs in all the classrooms. The school is using solutions from Edurite and ThinkLab.

Objective of deployment

We believe in excellence in education through constant evolution and continuous innovations in the teaching-learning process. World is changing and evolving fast; the revolutionary changes in ICT sector in the 21st century have been unprecedented. We at Shalom Hills believe in keeping pace with the needs of modern society and its changing face. The main aim of deploying ICT is to empower children and teachers to match up to the demands of modern society. Through technology supported classrooms, young scholars are introduced to a realm of opportunities wherein they can explore and study. We believe in moving from traditional chalk and talk methods to breakthrough methods, which will give the winning edge to both our children and teachers. Further it saves time as technology aided classrooms give quick solutions, simulated lectures, question banks on variety of topics. All our children and teachers are tech-savvy and comfortable in meeting the challenges of outside world. Through latest technology tools and gadgets, children can create  different robots and study important concepts of Science, Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Benefits of these deployments

Implementation has led to pronounced and heightened academic standards and has brought about 15-20 percent enhancement in the performance of students.
Weak and remedial students have also been benefitted from the implementation.
Teaching process and methodologies  have become multi-sensory and more effective, leading to high academic standards in every grade.

Evaluation of effect

Periodic evaluation of effect is done through class tests, bridge course, refresher courses, assessments, live projects, experiments, etc. Through feedback from students, parents and teachers we come to know how these ICT tools are helping in the teaching learning process. Whenever possible, we also conduct refreshment course to empower teachers with technical know how and equip them with confidence to use ICT tools effectively. One such refresher training programme was organised with ThinkLabs on 2nd of March 2013. Further the children have applied all the knowledge gained through use of ICT tools in designing website of international level.
Students’ feedback: Greater involvement and participation in the  learning process have been noticed. We  have seen   etter focus and almost zero  distractions; independent   earning; multi-sensory, and visually appealing  lessons/content. It also encouraged development  of ‘out-of-the-box’ thinking  and free and critical thinking.
Teachers’ feedback: Regular teacher enrichment seminars and workshops  are conducted to train them in  using all the latest tools of   echnology.  Linguistics/language sessions improve  their communicative competencies.
Three-day exclusive training programme was organised for all the teachers by Edurite service provider.

What’s Next

ICT proficiency will go to an advanced stage as children have learnt how to deploy tools like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Dreamweaver, Adobe Image Ready, Jquery. They are able to use them for their classroom work and various cyber competitions.
In the coming year(s), it will serve as a platform to springboard students to website designing competitions and international avenues.

Impact of Technology on Teaching and Learning

? Higher quality lessons prepared through greater collaboration between teachers in planning and preparing resources
? Tailor made teaching, customised to students’ varied learning specifications and individual differences
? Improved technology enabled tracking of students’ performance, participation and progress
? Upswing in reading skills, group work and better comprehension of content
? Development of writing skills, improvement in the matrix of spelling, grammar as well as fluency in English
? Development of proactive, independent and active learning
? Building of HOTS – Higher Order Thinking Skills
? Increase in students’ levels of motivation, sense of self-confidence and self-sufficiency
? Student centric and more stimulating learning teaching process
? In Computer Lab, the students learn to use the latest tools of technology and newest software programmes
? Erratic pronunciation is rectified and communicative competencies improved in the school’s Language Lab, which has special module wherein students can listen to an expert voice and record their own voice.
? In-depth learning of concepts in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) in Robotics Lab
? Collaborative and broad based learning as students/teachers get opportunities to collaborate on assignments with people outside or inside school at city, national or international level
? Enhancement of technological literacy of the students; preparing them for a global careers
? Catering to Multiple intelligences of the students

Buying Online Helps

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Manoj ChandraMetros continue to be a potential market in eCommerce, but the real growth will come from small cities, says Manoj Chandra, Founder & CEO, AllSchoolStuff.com, in conversation with Pragya Gupta, ENN

Please tell us about the growth pattern of eCommerce in India.
The Business-to-Consumer (B2C) business through eCommerce is growing immensly due to the penetration of the Internet. Earlier, people used to search the Internet for information, and now, they browse for products and services. They transact when they find value in what is being offered in terms of price, choice, convenience and service. I believe eCommerce will soon penetrate into every part of the country. This is because our country has a large geography and people in small towns do not have access to a lot of good products and services. These customers are amongst the first people to browse the web for the products they require. In fact, 80 percent of our customer base is from tier one and two cities. Metros continue to be a potential market, but the real growth will come from small cities.
The market potential is two-billion dollar but there are a very few players in this space.

How did the idea of launching an eCommerce portal exclusively for education come to your mind?
I have worked with the shoe company – Bata that used to be the predominant player in the shoe market. We realised that parents find it a challenge to get the right pair of shoes at the right time for their kids. Therefore, we started selling school shoes online which turned out to be a great success. This triggered the thought in my mind that there exists a possibility of parents wanting to buy things for their kids online. Today, everything you need is sold by different vendors. That was where we thought we should aggregate the things needed by parents at one place to give them convenience. That is how Allshcoolstuff born in September 2011.

What strategies drive the portal?
We began very small with some books and stationery items. Primarily, our outreach has been through social media and emails. Now we have half a million fans on Facebook. From `50,000 in the first month, our sales have grown to rupee one crore in just twelve months.

Please throw light on your approach to your consumers.
We have a two-pronged outreach. One is B2C through our online retail store, where we offer around 25,000 categories of products.
At the B2B level, a lot of small schools buy from us online. We work directly with large organised school chains also.We also work with school chains and help them in outsourcing their requirement in setting up their schools and student-specific needs.
We are the only organised player in the market, both as a retailer and outsource supplier. We are also penetrating into retail from school supply segment and participating in various forums to reach out to schools and educational institutions.

What kind of growth do you foresee for the company?
Considering the rapid pace at which we are growing, we hope to become a Rs 100-crore-business in the next couple of years. We would also like to achieve a scale of operation to make a difference.

Launch of NIELIT Web Portal

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L to R: Dr Rajendra Kumar, Joint Secretary, Department of Electronics & Information Technology; Rajiv Gauba, Additional Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY); Kapil Sibal, Minister of Communications and Information Technology; Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma, Managing Director, National Institute of Electronics and Information Technology (NIELIT), J Satyanarayana, Secretary, Dept of Electronics & Information Technology.

Kapil Sibal, the Union Minister for Communications and Information  Technology, launched the new website of National Institute of Electronics & Information Technology (NIELIT) at a glittering event held on March 25, 2013 at the e-Governance Hall of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) at Electronics Niketan, New Delhi.
The web portal located at www.nielit.in is colourful and pleasing to the eye, besides being GIGW (Guidelines for Indian Government Website) compliant. It boasts of several new features for supplementing the CSC (Common Service Centre) scheme; NIELIT accredited institutes have been mandated to provide G2C services to the citizens. With NIELIT accredited institutes also performing the task of CSC kiosks, there will be a vast improvement in the delivery of such services in the States.
NIELIT students will benefit as the new web portal is designed to provide placement related facilities. It provides free online assessment test on employability and soft skills, in association with Wheebox

 

Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma Dr Ashwini Kumar Sharma,
Managing Director, NIELIT
“NIELIT has constantly endeavoured to upgrade existing technologies and has considered it appropriate to invigorate its web presence by way of a new web portal. The new website launched by NIELIT is dynamic, interactive and user friendly. It is designed to provide a multitude of online services. As the website is integrated with the payment gateway, NIELIT students can now register online and also make payments online.”

Making Learning Sustainable

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Jaya Bhardwaj
Principal: Jaya Bhardwaj
Website: www.hansrajschool.org
Number of Students: 1581
Number of faculty and staff: 71

DL2ICT Tools in the school

To make students understand the content in an interactive and innovative method, the school has deployed 30 Interactive Whiteboards, 34 projectors, and English labs.
The school is using smart classroom solutions from Class Teacher. The school have smart class where children weary from bookish knowledge, get an insight into the world of information beyond textual learning. Education is not only about books, but It is also about asking questions all the time. Integrated into the curriculum, the smart class has been introduced in the school to make learning sustainable.

Engaged students

With interactive tools in classrooms, students remain active throughout the day and ready to learn new things. The implementation is also leading to the higher academic standards. It has further increased the interest of students by making subjects much more interesting.

Teachers’ training

For teachers’ capacity building and experience, the school has conducted three-day teachers’ training programme. “We also keep updating our teachers with new technologies and innovations whenever, they are installed in school. We have received positive response from teachers and students,” says Jaya Bhardwaj.

Experience

These tools are easy to handle, user friendly, have a backup facility, Software and are evaluation oriented. However, the school looks forward to more inbuilt content from solution providers.

ICT Allows Educator to Pursue Reactive Teaching – Delhi Public School, Sonepat

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Principal: Ranjoo Mann
Number of Students: 1600
Number of Faculty and Staff: 110


The school is using ICT solutions from E beam. The overall objective of deploying the solutions was to initiate a more technological and interactive approach to teaching. It allows the educator to pursue reactive teaching. It makes the visuals more effective means of retention than the methods deployed before. The main factors for a successful implementation of these tools is the availability of basic technology, which allows such an access. Apart from material factors, it also requires the basic know how on the operational level to ensure wider usage of this tool as an important resource provider.

Benefits of these Deployments

Educators are able to take reference and remark on all issues that may crop up in class.
This technology is overall very cost effective, easy to use, install, maintain,integrate and deploy. It allows an interdisciplinary approach for educators and students to explore their subject.
With a more interactive and interdisciplinary model in place, levels of academic involvement is much higher, and superior. With the usage of internet in class, deeper research method is instilled in students, and visual teaching makes the experience richer.

Evaluation of effect

The evaluation of teaching in class is done to standardised processes in the school. The clearest way of evaluating this tool is noticed when the involvement of students in initiating discussion is seen.

Enhanced teaching and learning process

Teaching and learning as a processes have now a higher level of inter dependence, wherein, an educator is able to initiate discussion among students through a visual medium.
Students have been engaging in self learning through discussion and exploration. The connection between concepts and visualising them has greatly increased the efficiency of the learning process, deeming the work of educators much smoother, than just relying on bookish knowledge. The most important aspect of this learning method is the filtration and wiser selection of all available resources that students employ when they are engaged in this teaching module.

Teachers’ training

 The training of teachers in using this tool did not take much time due to the nature of this software. It is easy to use, install, deploy, integrate and upgrade. As it is a highly intuitive tool, educators find the usage of this tool much easier and rewarding than other methods. Once trained the educators deployed these methods in their respective classrooms and get a better response as they are now able to retain the attention of students, through logical visual communication.
Students’ Feedback: The E beam teaching method used in class is a fun way to learn as an additional help. It facilitate deeper and relevant stories and anecdotes related to the subjects. It helps students understand concepts faster and put subjects in perspective. Students are also able to keep up with international standards of learning.
Teachers’ Feedback: This teaching module has allowed to unburden the greater load of research required for each subject. As it allows educators to access resources from other schools. It help teacher to stay updated with the general teaching trend, and allows a more homogeneous growth. It helps teachers retain attention of the students for a considerably longer period of time.

Digital Classrooms The Linchpin of Education

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Technology is becoming an inseparable part of education. We are now standing at the cusp of a technological revolution in pedagogy. Technology is also serving as a means of boosting a school’s visibility and prestige. It can lead to student recruitment and retention. The modern digital classroom comprises of a range of innovative tools for making education more interactive and engaging. Technology led innovation is leading in education space.

Several studies highlight the impact that technology has made in making the classroom more engaging for students. Tablets have a promising future in education: they are seen as a tool to address the lack of teachers and rising student dropout ratio while enhancing the reach of education crossing geographical barrier. The development in ICT tools in education is also ensuring the delivery of rich educational content to the students.

Digital ClassroomThere are also new challenges that technology brings in its wake. Schools and higher education institutions have to deal with issues in universalisation of education, student retention, student engagement, assessment and evaluation, etc.

However, despite all the challenges, the ICTs are becoming much more acceptable in the education community. Lack of Information, training, initial inertia scuppered the adoption of these tools. With effective training at the initial stage, technology introduction will help in closing the gap of the available facility and its usage.

The market size of digital classroom is likely to touch almost one lakh classrooms soon with a high growth rate. This trend is expected to continue for the next coming years. Classroom films, programmed learning devices, computer-assisted instruction and, more recently, interactive technology have been adopted and integrated into the curriculum with varying degrees of success depending on the effectiveness and involvement of people implementing the change.

The issue of digitalLEARNING seeks to highlight interactive whiteboards, interactive projectors, tablets, and other audiovisual aids that are being extensively used in the modern classrooms for enriching teaching-learning experience. We have interacted with a range of stakeholders to get their views on the innovations happening in the education space…

Launch of Electronic Payment & Application System of Scholarships (e-Pass)

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The Union Minister for Communications and Information Technology, Kapil Sibal, also launched the e-Pass application (Electronic payment and application system for scholarships) for Himachal Pradesh and Tripura on March 25, 2013 at the e-Governance Hall of Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) at Electronics Niketan, New Delhi.
e-Pass, developed by Centre for Good Governance, Government of Andhra Pradesh, is an end to end solution right from registration of application by the student to the transfer of money to the bank accounts of colleges and students. It has been has been operational in Andhra Pradesh since November 2009.
The Rapid Replication Roll-out Initiative comprises of selection of some of the successful applications of one State and replicating them in other States that are willing to adopt them with customisation as per the Seeker States requirements.

 Technology Used : 

Attribute Details
Software e-Pass
Platform Java Struts 1.2, Tomcat
Database Postgres SQL
Environment Linux
Hosted at Centre for Good Governance, Government of Andhra Pradesh

 

Rajiv Gauba Rajiv Gauba,
Additional Secretary, Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & IT, Government of India
“The e-Pass application is being replicated in Himachal Pradesh and Tripura under the pilot implementation of Rapid Replication Roll-out Initiative. Such replication will lead to significant savings in terms of time, efforts and costs. We have been talking about not reinventing the wheel every time an e-Governance initiative needs to be launched. The replication of e-Pass application in Himachal Pradesh and Tripura is a step in this direction.”

Launch of National Internet Registry (NIR)

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On 7th March 2013, at 10.30 AM, Kapil Sibal, Minister for Communications and Information Technology, launched the portal of National Internet Registry (NIR) at a glittering ceremony held at Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi. Speaking on the occasion Sibal said that launching of NIR will ease the allocation of IP addresses within the country.

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Dr Govind, Senior Director, Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Ministry of Communications & IT, and CEO, National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI)

“NIR will facilitate the allocation of IP resources to large number of small and medium companies within the country. The services can be charged in local currency to avoid exchange losses. It will also facilitate local training and development, thereby providing local language support to the entities in India”

NIXI was recognized by Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) in March 2012 to become the NIR for the country after successful demo of the indigenous software and systems developed for the allocation and management of Internet resources. National Internet Registry (NIR) coordinates the allocation of Internet Protocol address with other Internet resource management function at a national level in the country.
APNIC is a regional Internet registry which coordinates the Internet Protocol address allocations and other Internet resource management is the Asia-Pacific region. NIR functions under the overall umbrella of Regional Internet Registry (RIR) which is Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) based in Brisbane, Australia.
The NIR has been named as Indian Registry for Internet Names and Numbers (IRINN). Collective efforts of NIXI and ISPAI have led to the formation of IRINN in the country. It is a major milestone towards setting up of Critical Internet Resource management function in the country. Setting up of NIR under NIXI will not only reduce cost in procuring IP address but will also facilitate faster access to information for cyber crime investigators and Government authorities.
Creation of NIR will help promote activities related to research, education and training covering the areas of Internet Resources and its proliferation.

Established in 2003, the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI) is the neutral meeting point of the ISPs in India. Its main purpose is to facilitate exchange of domestic Internet traffic between the peering ISP members. This enables more efficient use of international bandwidth, saving foreign exchange. It also improves the Quality of Services for the customers of member ISPs, by avoiding multiple international hops and thus reducing latency. Department of Electronics & Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India, has endorsed the operations of National Internet Registry (NIR) to National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI). IRINN is a division functioning under NIXI and provides allocation and registration services of Internet Protocol addresses (IPv4 & IPv6) and Autonomous System numbers to its Affiliates .It is a not-for-profit, Affiliates based entity, with the primary goal of allocation of Internet resources to its Affiliates.

IMT Ghaziabad and Hyderabad Convocation 2013

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IMT Ghaziabad and HyderabadIndia has the largest aspirational society on this planet and this is a manifestation of the courage, knowledge and enthusiasm of its youth and the enterprise of its business leaders. Young generation will be an integral part of this aspirational society and will be engaged in generating economic wealth and creating social harmony to build an India of the 21st Century,” said Kamal Nath, President, IMT
“Management education has a unique opportunity to address global socio economic issue, by developing a generation of responsive citizens who are driven not by profit motive alone rather have a long term vision based on the philosophy of inclusive growth. At IMT, the universe of management education is centred on the basic tenets of awareness of self, society and Action Oriented learning.” said Adi Godrej, Chairman, Godrej Group.
According to Dr Bibek Banerjee, Director, IMT Ghaziabad, “In the last decade, we have witnessed the power of technology-enabled social networking manifested as mass dissent. The churning in the environment is palpable, and the challenges, both economic and social are expected to remain for some time to come. While this churn is frighteningly many, IMT Ghaziabad has attempted to respond to it proactively—by changing content, structure and delivery of curriculum of their PGDM programs, redesigning executive education and reframing resources toward doctoral programs.” The convocation would witness experts deliberating on the crucial issue, discussing ways to focus on emergent changes, and find synergies.
Dr V Panduranga Rao, Director, IMT Hyderabad says, “This convocation is very special for IMT Hyderabad, because students of its first batch are graduating today. It gives us great pleasure to see our students stepping out into the business world. We have always attempted to them from knowing mode to a doing mode and in turn to innovate for better lives, organizations and a better world. I am sure they will not only lead the business landscape, but they will also transform livelihoods and add value to human existence. I wish all success to this pioneering batch of IMT Hyderabad.”
The total number of students who have got the degree are 588 and 94 from Ghaziabad and Hyderabad campus respectively.
As Asia continues to propel the world economic growth, India has a huge role to play. While there will be a plethora of opportunities for talented young people, new challenges and responsibilities will become relevant. Business strategies during uncertainties, effectively harnessing technology, constructively employing social media, environment and social consciousness are some issue that CEOs all around the world are grappling with today. India’s role as a constructive player in the evolving global order will depend on how we shoulder the responsibilities of addressing these and new concerns that crop up. IMT Ghaziabad and Hyderabad is heading towards making valuable contributions to India business and industry.

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