Use of ICT beneath a complete initiative referred to as PM eVIDYA by the Department of School schooling, Ministry of Education (MoE), significantly in the course of the COVID-19 pandemic wins UNESCO’s recognition. Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a constituent unit of National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) beneath Department of School Education and Literacy (DOSEL), MoE, Government of India has been awarded with the UNESCO’s King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa Prize for the Use of ICT in Education for the yr 2021.
This award “recognises innovative approaches in leveraging new technologies to expand educational and lifelong learning opportunities for all, in line with the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and its Goal four on Education. Established in 2005 with the support of the Kingdom of Bahrain, the Prize rewards individuals and organisations that are implementing outstanding projects and promoting the creative use of technologies to enhance learning, teaching and overall educational performance in the digital age. An international Jury selects two best projects annually. Each prize winner receives $25,000, a medal and a diploma during a ceremony at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris”, which this yr can be held on June 24, 2022.
The PM eVIDYA has been initiated as a part of Atma Nirbhar Bharat Abhiyaan by MoE on May 17, 2020, which unifies all efforts associated to digital, on-line, on-air schooling to allow multi-mode entry for imparting schooling by utilizing know-how to minimise studying losses.
With a mandate to deploy inexpensive know-how to boost the academic alternatives for all, to enhance the standard of schooling and to carry fairness into the academic system within the nation and holding in view the suggestions of NEP-2020, MoE by means of CIET, NCERT has been working in designing, creating and disseminating a lot of eBooks, eContent – audios, movies, interactives, augmented actuality contents, Indian Sign Language (ISL) movies, audiobooks, speaking books, amongst others; quite a lot of eCourses for college and trainer schooling; organising digital occasions like on-line quizzes primarily for college students and academics by means of leveraging on-line and offline, On-Air know-how One Class-One Channel, DIKSHA, ePathshala, NISHTHA, faculty MOOCs on SWAYAM, amongst others.
To additional the aims of NEP and Samagra Shiksha and handle the aforementioned pillars, PM eVidya- a complete initiative which unifies all efforts and supplies multi-mode entry to digital/on-line/on-air schooling was launched in May 2020.
The CIET was proactive in taking studying to the doorsteps of the kids by means of the intensive, resilient, moral, and coherent use of 12 PM eVidya DTH TV channels and practically 397 radio stations, together with neighborhood radio stations beneath PM eVidya program. These efforts have been particularly useful in pandemic conditions, when colleges have been closed, in reaching out to college students. These efforts helped in arresting the training hiatus to a big extent.
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