In a first of its kind school exchange program between Pakistan and India, The Millennium School (TMS) Noida played host to a delegation of school children from across the border. Indo-Pak Peace Project through Education is an initiative by The Millennium School to nurture relationships between the younger generations in both countries through educational exchange. Present at the occasion were Baela Raza Jamil, Trustee of the Sanjan Nagar Public Education Trust and Faiza Shahrukh, Principal of Sanjan Nagar School, Lahore, a renowned school in Pakistan, along with Rita Kaul, Principal, The Millennium School, Noida.
The Millennium School, Noida has undertaken a path breaking initiative by extending a hand of friendship and collaborative learning with delegates from Sanjan Nagar School, Lahore. The school will host the delegation for three days extending the renowned Indian hospitality while exposing them to the spectacular Indian culture. The three day journey started on a euphoric note with a fine display of 'Umeed', a cultural event incorporating hope for Indo- Pakistan friendship with music, dance, drama and a lively interaction. The highlight of the event was the skit 'Tootengee Sarhade” motivating the youth to shun prejudices and stride together towards a great future. All present luminaries from field of education inspired the audience to shed their inhibitions and progress towards a harmonious and peaceful coexistence.
A range of constructive activities have been scheduled for the visiting school children from Pakistan at TMS Noida to promote peace and understanding between the two countries. Stalwarts like Prof. Krishna Kumar, Former Director, NCERT, Professor Anil Sethi, Head, History Department, NCERT and representatives from the reputed NGO Pravah would be enlightening the Millennium school students and the Pakistani delegation on learning from conflicts, role of the identity in the human existence and the relationship of self and conflict. An Iftaar Party is being hosted by The Millennium School for the visiting delegation from Pakistan in the evening.
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The education sector is witnessing tumultuous changes. One aspect is the humungous growth in the number of institutions. The 11th Plan Initiatives quoted in the Union Budget for India 2010 envisage 10 more NITs, 20 new IIITs, 2 new SPAs, 5 new IISERs, 7 new IIMs, 8 new IITs and 16 new central universities. These government-led initiatives are but the tip of the iceberg, with private institutions mushrooming by the day. Increasing competition among institutions is a natural fall out of such explosive growth in numbers.
Lt Gen Bhopinder Singh was accorded the prestigious eINDIA2010 Leadership Award for bringing ICT to remote and difficult terrains like Andaman and Nicobar Islands and connecting distant communities through effective use of IT.
ICT enabled school
Destination Success is a holistic educational solution with digital content, print and digital activities, lesson plans, interactivities to evaluate student learning, professional development services, IT executive for technical maintenance and teacher support. This is one of the largest eLearning implementations in the region covering more than 7000 students, 220 classrooms with Interactive Boards, complete connectivity in school, Wi-Fi campus, more than 100 hours of IT training for over 600 teachers, and digital interactive content deployed in the school in association with S. Chand Harcourt.
MKCL Digital School Programme
Digital School is a program that empowers school children to capture various learning experiences in a technology enabled and teacher facilitated environment by means of different activities and interactivities complementing school curricula. The target group includes school children, reaching out to 14 districts of Maharashtra and number of schools where the program has been implemented is 397 schools. The project ensures the deployment of eLearning platform inside school for school children to offer co-curricular and extracurricular multimedia based interactive learning content.
The Project is being jointly executed by the UGC- INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium. In the project IIT Delhi provides for cross-subscription to e- resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical institutions; and access to selected e-resources to colleges. The authorised users from colleges can now access e- resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher’s website once they are duly authenticated as authorised users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.
The Project is being jointly executed by the UGC- INFONET Digital Library Consortium, INFLIBNET Centre and the INDEST-AICTE Consortium. In the project IIT Delhi provides for cross-subscription to e- resources subscribed by the two Consortia, i.e. subscription to INDEST-AICTE resources for universities and UGCINFONET resources for technical institutions; and access to selected e-resources to colleges. The authorised users from colleges can now access e- resources and download articles required by them directly from the publisher’s website once they are duly authenticated as authorised users through servers deployed at the INFLIBNET Centre.
The project was started with an aim to evaluate the teaching-learning process, wherein the primary stakeholders are the teachers and students, and for the management and administration of the institute, wherein the primary stakeholders are the administrators and staff members. The Learning Management System (LMS) part of the project brings in “Blended Learning” paradigm into the curriculum. Using the Institute Management System (IMS), the administrative staff, increases the efficiency of the workflow and makes it more responsive towards the other stakeholders of the system. The program is an attempt in creation of a single platform
The Institute for Electronic Governance (IEG) is a state level non-profit society established by Government of Andhra Pradesh, to offer solutions in the discourse of quality human resources by bringing synergy among the institutions of the government, industry and academia. IEG has started its training programe by establishing Jawahar Knowledge Centers, in order to bridge the gap between industry and academia and thus improve the rate of employment. At present IEG is training nearly 100,000 students. IEG has also started a separate program called Special Training Program (STP) to ensure that all the socially challenged sections of the society have equal opportunities for employment.
Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (India) [(AKRSP (I) ] has partnered with Microsoft for an information technology project. “Computerji Jode Duniya se”. This initiative of AKRSP (India) focuses on enhancing livelihoods in remote rural areas of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh & Bihar by using information technology as a tool. The AKRSP (I) is active in six districts of Gujarat and three districts of Madhya Pradesh. In 2007, AKRSP(I) initiated its work in Samastipur & Muzaffarpur districts of Bihar. The Computerji project was initiated to address all gaps in IT training and skill development. Computerji centres are located in areas with tribal and marginalized population.
Punjab Technical University, (PTU) started its Distance Education Programme (DEP) in 2001. In DEP, PTU offers undergraduate and post graduate Diploma and Degree programmes in the field of IT and management, hotel management, airlines and tourism, paramedical and allied technologies, fashion, interior, jewellery and textile designing, fire, safety and hazards management, mass communication and journalism and multi-media technologies. In PTUDEP, there is a unique model of PPP. The administrative, conduct & secrecy powers rest with the University wherein the University designs courses, syllabi & curriculum, prepares learning material, establishes learning centers, conducts & evaluates examinations, provide certification and maintain quality.
The Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) through the School of Distance Education (SDE) boasts of state-of-the-art telecommunication capabilities and innovative educational approach to enhance the educational architecture and learning environment in Malaysia. The dawning of the age of the Internet saw SDE produce a home-grown learning management system in 2003 with full migration to Moodle in 2005. In the 2007-08 acedemic session, SDE piloted the use of the hand phone in distance teaching via the use of SMS in a second year Physics optics course with the code JIF212. The chosen topic of ‘dispersion’ was redesigned in a SMS fashion such that the students could receive short messages based on the topic.
DSpace (online repository) and Moodle (online digital learning portal) was implemented in the college by the in-house IT team. The project was implemented using FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) and was started with the intention of sharing the resources online. Teaching notes, slides (PPTs), lab manuals, assignments etc can be shared in DSpace. Assignments and online examinations are given using Moodle so that the students have an option of submitting their answers online. The tools automate the valuation process and the results can be declared immediately after the examination. The target group are students and teachers who would use these tools for effective teaching – learning processes.
Educomp has ushered a whole new teaching-learning paradigm in schools across India by developing quality courseware and multimedia in regional languages, and providing quality training to teachers, developing training modules to contain 21st century learning skills, project based learning, on making lesson plans and unit plans, and continuous evaluation. It has introduced local language empowering MagiKeys Software to enable ‘Online’ or ‘Offline’ learning in different languages. Special local language multimedia training aids and courseware have also been developed to enable speedy and intuitive adoption by both students and teachers.
