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Use of Technology in Teaching-Learning

Teach Next

Organisation: Orchids The International school Hyderabad
Implementing Agency: Teach Next
Website: www.orchidsinternationalschool.com
Objective: To make the students learn subject content in a very interactive and play way method.
Description: Teach Next is an excellent smart board system.
It It is very interactive, with lot of innovative ideas put in, lot of exercises provided, making it very interesting and inspiring even for the dull students to focus and understand the subject.
Achievements
• Shown a tremendous improvement, even among underperforming students
• Students have become more open to learning
• Students show more interaction in learning any concepts
• Student and teachers both are happy with digital boards
• Teachers are able to upload their own extra reference subject matter

DPS Ahmedabad

Organisation: Delhi Public School East, Ahmedabad
Implementing Agencies: Pearsons Education services pvt Ltd
Website: www.dpseast.calorx.org
Objective: The software is implemented at Delhi Public School, East Ahmedabad, to make learning interesting and more effective.
Description: In the age of digitalisation,the importance of technology cannot be undermined. The use of technology in the classrooms is in the form of digital learning, language lab, and audio visual plans with the use of smart boards. The school encourages the use of e-books, multimedia software, educational software,digital portfolios, learning games and
real-time feedback on performance of students and teachers.
Achievements
• Grade improvement, enhancement of thinking, logical skills, and problem solving skills
• Preparation for competitive exams and research based projects
• Bagged International School Award Accreditation (British Council) 2013-2015
• Ranked first in East Delhi Zonals for Sports
• Highest scorer in class XII CBSE Results in East Delhi 2012-2013 

Interactive ICT Teaching for Informative Learning 

Organisation: DAV Public School Chandrasekharpur,Odisha
Website: www.davcsp.org
Objective: To empower students by providing information, exam dates, syllabus,time-table, e-study materials, mock questions and doubt clearing through school website and other social media like facebook/orkut.
Description: The school has tried to incorporate and make the best of ICT techniques available to students for better and interactive learning process.classrooms, libraries, exam halls, auditorium and offices have been adapted for
ICT learning.
Achievements
Teaching-learning process became interactive,interesting and vibrant
Go Green Environment with limited paper works
Better parental involvement was observed
Effective communication within limited time
Teachers became computer-savvy using IT in teaching-learning process

Magical e-Pen
Organisation: Tripada Education Trust
Website: www.tripada.com
Objective: The technology has been developed to elevate the learning experience of students by focusing on the enormous benefits of listening.
Description: The Magical ePen brings sound to paper. When the pen touches a penenbled poster or a book, it speaks. The pen detects sound spots on any page in a book or on any graphics on the poster and plays narrations, questions, answers, quizzes, music or sound effects – whatever audio has been pre-programmed into the paper.
Achievements
• The solution has implemented in standard first, second and Pre school
• The school takes the pride of being first school focusing on the learning styles
• It is the only school to have it implemented in classroom teaching
• It has French and phonetics so as to help the child learn correct pronounication
• It is the only e-Pen, which can download about 100 such books in it to help with content upgrades

Creya Learning, KIIT-IAPT Anveshika Centre & DST Sponsored Inspire Programme

Organisation: KiiT International School International School
Website: www.kiitis.ac.in ; www.creyalearning.com
Implementing Agency: Creya Learning
Objective: To implement 21st century way teaching-learning enabling the whole school transformation, to provide a comprehensive interdisciplinary program, powerful project based curriculum-driven approach.
Description: Creya equips children with skills, competencies and the attitude for success. With global academic research,Creya helps children acquire analytical and problem solving, collaborative and communication skills.
Achievements
• It is beyond rote-learning and helps children acquire analytical skills
• It helped children to work in free environment and gave opportunity to express individual skills
• Combined with parental involvement it provides holistic education to children

 

Message

Kiran Kumar Reddy, 
Chief Minister, Andhra Pradesh

Andhra Pradesh is in the forefront in use of Information Technology for improving governance in India. Application of IT in major citizen welfare programmes like Aarogyasri and NREGS has enabled total transparency and accountability in their implementation.

Our unique G2C and G2B service delivery platform “Mee Seva”,is serving as a one stop solution for delivering services anywhere, any time. Mee Seva currently offers 153 citizen centric services through more than 6800 CSCs spread across the state. Mee Seva currently offers services pertaining to 11 departments i.e. Revenue, Registration, Municipalities, Power Distribution, Civil Supplies, Police, UIDAI, Transport, Education, Industries & Commerce and IT&C Departments. Additional 154 services pertaining to 10 departments are being developed and would be offered through Mee Seva in the next 4-5 months. Mee Seva has already completed more than 2 crore transactions since inception.
It gives me immense pleasure to share that the Government of Andhra Pradesh is the partner state for the ninth edition of eINDIA 2013, India’s premier ICT event which is being jointly organised by Elets Technomedia Pvt Ltd along with other partners at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, between 23rd– 24th July, 2013.
I welcome all the delegates, thought leaders and change agents participating in the event. I look forward to their participation in what promises to be an immensely enriching event.

Creating New Horizon for Technical Education

The United Group, founded by Late Shiv Ram Das Gulati in 195,emerged from a transport business to become a giant in the fields of education, services, transportation and journalism

The United Group of Institutions (UGI) made a mammoth leap in the education arena in the mid-80s by being the pioneers in computer education. This further led to the establishment of United Institute of Management and United College of Engineering and Research in Allahabad & Greater Noida. With nine well-established institutes catering to over 8,000 students and more than 500 faculty members the Group is poised to create a new horizon by providing the best technical education.
It offers NBA accredited courses, quality recognised by the World Bank and boasts of 5,200+ alumni base. Our placement scenario is booming with 4,700+ jobs already offered and state-of-the-art facilities provided to faculty and students alike. All the academic establishments are affiliated to the Uttar Pradesh Technical University (Mahamaya Technical University, Noida and Gautam Budha Technical University, Lucknow) and are approved by All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), Ministry of Human Resources Development, Government of India, New Delhi.
UGI has state-of-the-art classrooms specially designed and equipped with latest audio-visual aids and wireless connectivity to enhance learning activities. It has huge seminar hall and auditorium to conduct seminars, workshops, guest lectures, and other events. The library has an enviable collection of more than two lakh volumes of nationally and internationally acclaimed books in addition to periodicals, articles, journals, etc.
Accredited by TCS and having academic alliance with EMC2, UGI provides a kind of education that equips students to take up challenging leadership roles in business and society.

Our Achievements:

  • United College of Engineering & Research Ranked 145 all over India
  • Asia’s Best B-School Award, Suntec Singapore – CMO Asia
  • Business Sphere Award for Excellence in Education.
  • Best Intellectual capital in U.P. – Business World
  • Shiksha Bharti Puraskar– All India Achiever’s foundation
  • Indian Leadership Award for Academic Excellence
  • Outstanding placement efforts for the year 2012 Award by HT-Shine
  • Asia Pacific Excellence Award- Indo-Nepal Economic Development
    Conference
  • Edupreneurs Awards 2013 by Prof S K Kak, Vice Chancellor, Mahamaya
    Technical University, Noida
  • Selected as E-Governance Campus for Greater Noida by Ministry of
    Communications & Information Technology and The United Nations (UN).

UGI works hard to up employability skills and enhance overall grooming of students through industry interface, corporate lectures, case studies, problem solving exercises, etc. Special care is given to the courses like MBA & PGDM which demand industrial trainings and visits. UGI provides ample industrial visits very frequently in to corporate leaders, like; NTPC, Mother Dairy, Denso, NPCIL, Caparo India, Cipla, New Holland, JBM, Moserbaer, LG, etc. The collaboration with Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Thailand and University of Missouri, Columbia has opened the doors to new academic programs for UGI’s bright souls. This association is done for yearly summer training, faculty development and student exchange programs.
UNITIAN’s endeavour for perfection does not end at the completion of the course. It is ensured that every student is well settled once he or she is out of the institute. Hence, training and placement process is given paramount importance in UGI, as Corporate Relation Centre believes that beyond the scholastic achievement, other auxiliary skills, diction, vocabulary and aptitude are the ingredients for successful placements.
The Alumni Association of United Group of Institutions is officially formed to foster a lifelong intellectual connection between UGI and its alumni and to club together all the alumni of UGI on a single floor to guide their juniors on career matters. Our top campus recruiters are include bigwigs including LG, Samsung, HP, IBM India, Takahata Precision, HDFC, ACME Tele Power Ltd., Satyam, TCS, IMStylish, Policy Bazaar, Aircel, and many more. A large number of our students have been placed abroad as well.

Quality of Education can be Improved through Collective Arrangement

Kuncheria P Issac,
Member Secretary,
the All-India Council for Technical Education (AICTE),
shares his views on role of ICT in education and improving quality in technical education,in conversation with Rozelle Laha, ENN

You have been a pioneer in introducing ICT in imparting education through smart classrooms, digital library, course management systems, etc across educational institutions. What is the relevance of ICT-based learning and what are its future prospects?
If you look at the ancient system of education in India, the number of students was less and interacting with each one of them was easy. Today, we have a much larger population to be educated in the same classroom. We therefore, cannot afford to opt for the Gurukula system of education, wherein the Shishya (student) resided at Guru’s place and there was a regular one-to-one interaction.
Today one teacher needs to give equal attention to a large number of students. Only ICT can be an effective enabling mechanism to depict a similar kind of system, though, even with that, the ratio of the teacher-student interaction will not be one-to-one.
Almost 90% people are receptive to any kind of change. Institutes have responded well to the technological advancements. In today’s society one has to accept the importance of technology and social media.

Share your views on the role of industry training in teachinglearning process?
Industry oriented students is a need of the day, but it is not feasible that all students physically visit the industry to get trained. So, experts from the industry need to be brought into the classroom to telecast on how industry works, manufacturing happen in factories at least once in six months.

Please throw some light on AICTE’s initiatives in improving the quality of faculty?
AICTE has been constantly making efforts to ensure that quality faculty is recruited across educational institutions. We would soon be able to stabilise the demand supply gap of the number of quality faculty.
All faculties in technical institutions should beengaged in research activities. AICTE too funds research activities and believe that it would help boost the ambience of research activities.

Most students opt for MBA after doing B Tech. Can B Tech courses be made more self sufficient in terms of soft-skills development, so as to enable students to get employed right after completing B Tech?
Soft skills development can neither be imparted in an engineering college or in a business school. This needs to be inculcated among students right at the school level. Moreover, soft-skills cannot be implemented in classrooms. It is a self-development. Scheduling one seminar every semester, one power point presentation periodically, giving assignments that demand a student to refer to library books can add value to a B Tech course.

How can the quality of technical education in the country be improved?
The quality of education can improve only through collective arrangement. Institutes of National Importance can help the other technical institutions to come at par with them through faculty exchange and guest lectures. Instead of increasing the number of courses and institutions, focus needs to be laid on improvement of the quality of the existing institutions and the courses to an optimum level. We have an advantage of large population. If we are able to train all the 500 million youth in the country rightly, they can serve as a sturdy backbone for the service sector of the country

Promises to Keep

Dr Ravi Gupta
Editor-in-Chief
Ravi.Gupta@elets.in

The Human Resource Development Minister, Dr M M Pallam Raju, has recently stated that India is to achieve 80 percent literacy rate by 2015. The current literacy rate of India is 73 percent as per the Census 2011. The Minister mentioned that more than 20 crore people have become literate since the last Census of 2001, out of which more than half of them are females. To achieve the goal of 80 percent literacy by 2015, the HRD Ministry is restructuring the entire adult education system in the country with a paradigm shift to lifelong education.

Dr Raju also announced that an appropriate administrative and legislative process shall be initiated to integrate formal, non-formal and informal learning and to recognise forms of education other than formal. He clarified that recognition, validation and accreditation of learning, obtained through adult education, will be formalised by setting up equivalency framework.
Raising the literacy rate by seven percent in the next two years is a mammoth task and all stakeholders in the education sector need to work in tandem to meet this target. Schools play a big role in this as they lay the foundation for education. This issue of digitalLEARNING has a Special Focus on emerging school chains, whereby owners of leading school chains in India have shared their experiences – challenges faced and lessons learnt – in running school chains in India.
The August issue of digitalLEARNING is a special issue that has covered different innovative projects submitted under the 9th eINDIA Education Summit scheduled to be held on 23-24th July, at Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad. The issue features projects of innovation taken up in higher education and school education and acknowledges the various initiatives taken up by the government, educational institutions and the private sector for playing a stellar role in raising the standards and quality of education in the country.
I would also like to tell our readers that the August 2013 issue of digitalLEARNING will be launched by the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh at the prestigious eINDIA 2013 Summit, being organised on 23-24 July, 2013 in Hyderabad, in the presence of many key officials from the Centre and States who are playing a stellar role in implementation of new education initiatives in the Country. If you are there at the eINDIA2013 summit, then you might already have received your copy of digitalLEARNING.
We look forward to seeing you at eINDIA 2013. After all, it is very essential that all sections of society participate in the discussions on the ways by which the scope of education can be further improved in the country. While we have scored lot of successes in this area, there exists room for lot of new initiatives to be launched.

Cyberfort Technologies Offers Skill-based Employable Courses

Amit Kumar,
President, Cyberfort Technologies

Cyberfort Technologies is a Boutique Training and Consulting Firm specialising in Information Security and financial technology. Cyberfort technologies was inaugurated in World Education Summit held in Le-Meridian, New Delhi,2013 (www.cyberfort.org), in the presence of eminent laureates and educationist from across the world. CYBERFORT Technologies is ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 27001:2005 certified and is an accredited member of IADL, UK and US DLA. Cyberfort Technologies provides niche and hi-tech certification courseware globally via virtual and instructor – led teaching modules. Cyberfort Technologies has strategic alliances with Mahatma Gandhi University, India (UGCAICTE- DEC approved) and EC-Council (world’s largest certification body for Cyber security professionals) for imparting high quality graduate/postgraduate and professional certifications in Information and financial technology.
Information security is a stable and growing profession – Information security professionals are very stable in their employment; more than 80 percent had no change in employer or employment in the past year, and the number of professionals is projected to continuously grow more than 11 percent annually over the next five years.
Certification of knowledge drives salaries higher – the salary gap between certified cyber security professionals and non-certified professionals is widening. Information security professionals in US have average salaries of USD 80,000. In India, a beginner can expect a pay package of up to `6 lakh per annum. Professionals with higher academic qualifications and work experience can draw up to ` 30 lakhs. Salaries are at least 20-30 percent higher than for most other positions at the same level in other fields of IT. Typically, salaries get doubled within two years due to huge demand of skilled manpower in this sector.
Even with past annual growth in the double-digits, workforce shortage persists. The impact of shortage is the greatest on the existing workforce. India alone needs at least five lakh cyber security professionals by the year 2015.

Career in Algo-Trading
Algorithmic trading can be defined as placing a buy or sell order of a defined quantity into a quantitative model that automatically generates the timing of orders and the size of orders based on goals specified by the parameters and constraints of the algorithm. The rules built into the model attempt to determine the optimal time for an order to be placed that will cause the least amount of impact on the price of the financial instrument. Algo trading is a way to codify a trader’s execution strategy. Algo trading or computer-directed trading cuts down transaction costs and allows fund managers to take control of their own trading processes.
Algo trading is an automated facility where trading is carried out by computer driven algorithms designed by traders. Instead of the traders manually doing so, it is these algorithms that determine which orders – to buy or to sell – get booked. The high speed transactions can take as little as 18 microseconds – at which such trading takes place, gives it a competitive advantage over conventional manual trading. While a single trader can manually handle at best a portfolio of around `5 crore, an algo trader, working alone, can cope with `50 crore to `55 crore.
Algo trading started in India in 2005. But it was only in 2008, after the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) allowed Direct Market Access, or electronic interaction with the order books of exchanges, that this facility started gaining wide acceptance. Today, around 16 to 17 percent of trading on the Bombay Stock Exchange (BSE) and National Stock Exchange is algorithmic, with about 80 to 90 companies engaged in it. But many believe that in the next three to four years, the proportion could rise to 60 to 70 percent.

Content

• CYBERFORT TechnoLab’s programme textbooks and workbooks have been developed by experienced industry professionals to provide insight into the real-life ICT industry. Textbooks have been designed to provide theoretical and practical learning to the learner

• Each book starts by defining the learning objectives and providing sufficient reading material to ensure these objectives are met. Textbooks supplement the workbooks used by learners during classroom learning sessions

• Course material is simplified to ensure that learners with different learning capacities benefit equally from the content. Relevant examples help explain concepts in an easy-to-understand manner. Graphs, pictures and statistics are used extensively to illustrate the rationale for every concept explained

• The combination of instructor-led training + self-study courses and group exercises ensures that learners are elevated to a mindset of a professional

Courses at a glance

• MBA in Cyber Security
• MBA in Investment Banking
• BCA in Cyber Security
• BBA in Investment Banking
• Diploma in Cyber Security
• Diploma in Algo Trading
• Certificate in Cyber Security
• Certificate in Professional Trading

TechnoLab learning centers The Cyberfort TechnoLab learning centers across India are equipped with state-of-the-art technology to facilitate learning. Our industry experts use advanced learning tools to demonstrate real-time trends in advanced ICT to learners. Additionally, all learning centers are managed by dedicated managers who ensure that every need of the learner is met. They aim to create a collaborative learning environment that encourages knowledge creation and absorption. The learning centers provide the perfect blend of content and infrastructure thus enabling the learner to flourish.

Scope of the programme
A tremendous scope is available. Information security is one of the booming industries at the moment. Technologies offered at Cyberfort technologies are in high demand like Information Security & financial technology, Application Programming, Networking and Communication.
Our job-oriented diploma programs increase one’s chances in various domain specific areas, whereas the MBA program in cyber security and Investment Banking respectively gives an edge to enter directly in the mid level position of the industry domain.

Advantage of niche technology course
The entry-level salary is at least 20 percent higher as compared to other areas and the growth within the industry is much faster. Typically, the salary would get doubled within two years itself as there is a huge demand of skilled manpower in this sector.
Cyberfort technologies deliver innovative, leading-edge products, solutions, and services to customers worldwide. We are dedicated to advancing the discipline of cyber security through imagination, technical excellence, and unparalleled passion for our work.

Simplifying Teaching with Digital Content

EducoSoft delivers digital content for K-12 students, teachers and self-learners. Dr Manmohan Sharma, Professor Emeritus, Clark Atlanta University (US) and President Educo International, speaks on the need of teachers’ empowerment through digital content that can help teachers make class discussions dynamic and interactive, in conversation with Pragya Gupta, ENN

Please share the genesis of Educo International.
Educo International was founded in 1985 to provide quality education tools, products and services globally. We have the vision to provide quality education solutions accessible anytime, anywhere with or without the availability of Internet access. Now we are delivering solutions through several options for the institution to chose from, including: 1) through Internet; 2) Internet based Lab licenses; 3) without Internet, through Local Area Network, and 4) now through a simple Pen Drive. If any of the first three options are used then it comes with comprehensive Learning Management System (LMS) with all the instructional management tools.
I have been in Education for over 50 years, about 30 years in US, and have held several senior academic and administrative positions in different universities in the USA and India. For the last three decades, I have been focusing on improving the quality of math and Science education by introducing technology solutions in teaching and learning.

How do you empower teachers?
We call ourselves to be academic solution provider. Our focus is on empowering teachers in the classroom as everything revolves around them. There is a scarcity of teachers, not even to talk of good teachers. Whatever we have can be made efficient enough to deliver quality education exploiting the power of digital content.
This is where efficiently delivered digital teaching resources can help improve the situation. We have tried to capture good pedagogy through dynamic graphics, appropriate animations, step-bystep presentations to make class room interactive using heuristics. Our Digital Teaching notes and assessment are seamlessly integrated for each and every concept of the curriculum that teachers are expected to follow.

Do you favour smart classrooms that have entered Indian schools?
Yes, of course. That facilitates integration of teaching and learning through digital media. But its effective integration in actual teaching and learning is still to be seen. However, there are some institutions that can be considered as model for the smart room use and its complete integration in teaching and learning like the five schools in Delhi that I know; two schools of Tagore International group, two schools of Father Angeles, and Rukamni Devi Public school. Almost all teachers of these schools use smart class rooms very effectively.

How do you bring technology into the classroom?
Two things are necessary for the efficient use of technology by teachers in classrooms or for self professional development. It must be easy to use, and digital content must be very effective to make classrooms interactive. Access of digital content to teachers must be seamless, without depending on any downloads and external technology person’s help. Keeping all these consideration in mind, we are now offering our content in USB sticks that require no installations except the Pen drive itself. Powerful content, where teaching notes are presented with dynamic graphics and pedagogically sound animations, and are integrated with assessment for every concept, are likely to make class rooms interactive with good learning environment.

Please shed more light on your USB-based solution for learning.
Educo has launched a new concept of Pen Drive loaded with complete curriculum for teaching, learning, and assessment, all integrated and locked in this Pen Drive. Content is completely aligned with CBSC curriculum. Focus is on Mathematics, Sciences, and English Language Arts. For teachers, we are adding in one Pen Drive all that a teacher needs for the subject for all classes he/she teaches. For students, we are adding in one Pen Drive all the three subject matter; Math, Science, and English of his/ her class. It is being launched in four countries simultaneously: US, Jamaica, India, and Philippines.

Essay contest to mark 40 years of India-Korea ties

India.South Korea.9The first India-Korea friendship essay competition was declared open recently as part of the celebrations marking the 40 years of the establishment of diplomatic ties between New Delhi and Seoul. Over 1,000 schools from 50 cities across India are expected to participate in the national-level essay competition.

Students will be writing on “Korea India friendship – yesterday, today and tomorrow”.

Students between classes IX and XIIcan take part and send in their entries either by post or email to the Korean Cultural Centre. The entries would then be evaluated by experts.

The last day for sending in entries is August 31. The website www.koreaindiaessay.com was also launched for students to get more information.

Pearson, Village Capital partner to fund ‘Eduprenuers’

PearsonPearson has partnered with social investor Village Capital to support and fund education entrepreneurs in India who are focused on serving the bottom-of-the-pyramid market in the country. Select education start-ups will receive up to USD 75,000 (Rs 45 lakh) in funding and will be selected through peer review by fellow entrepreneurs.

Up to 16 start-up companies will participate in workshops this year in which they will be offered mentoring advice from other entrepreneurs, investors and professionals. Of these, top two ranking companies will receive up to USD 75,000 each drawn from USD 100,000 and USD 50,000 of capital committed by the Pearson Affordable Learning Fund and Village Capital, respectively. The start-ups can be in either tech or non-tech ventures.

India aims to achieve 80 percent literacy rate by 2015

int-literacy-dayIndia is to achieve 80 percent literacy rate in the next two years. This was stated by the HRD Minister Dr M M Pallam Raju while inaugurating an International Conference on Achieving Literacy for All. The literacy rate of India is 73 percent at present as per the 2011 Census. He said that more than 20 crore people have become literates since the last Census of 2001 out of which more than half of them are females.

To achieve the goal of 80 per cent literacy by 2015, the Dr Raju said that the HRD Ministry is restructuring the entire adult education system in the country with a paradigm shift to lifelong education. He announced that an appropriate administrative and if required legislative process will be initiated to integrate formal, non-formal and informal learning and to formally recognise forms of education other than formal. He clarified that recognition, validation and accreditation of learning obtained through adult education will be formalized by setting up equivalency framework.

Stressing on the fact that the Government is keen to continuously improve the quality of adult learning, he  added that a Core Curriculum Framework for adult education has been developed and is currently undergoing consultative process. The Framework will address total quality management in adult literacy. Full support will be given to adult education by providing adequate resources including funding, research complemented by knowledge management systems and through other innovative means including use of computer ICT as a medium of instruction, he added.

Speaking on the occasion, the UN Resident Coordinator Ms. Lise Grande complimented India for fighting illiteracy and making achievements in the field of education sector. However, she said that India should continue with its struggle against illiteracy. More than seventy crore people globally do not know reading, writing and arithmetic and most of them are in India, China, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

The three- day International Conference will focus on effective, innovative approaches to scale up literacy, reduce gender disparities and create a literate world. The Conference has been organized by National Literacy Mission Authority (NLMA), India along with UNESCO and UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL).

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