digitalLEARNINGMagazine by Elets
Editorial section
Recently we had the former HRD Minister, Kapil Sibal, who is the current Minister of Communications and Information Technology, saying “I want public services to be delivered through Aakash. I want Aakash to be a platform for 1.2 billion...
The changing delivery-mechanism of education in India makes us wonder how, with the advancements in ICT, education is taking a new shape. The increasing use of tablets in education, education through the cloud, content repositories and...
The Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2012, released recently in New Delhi, shows that while the nation has achieved a lot in the field of education, mainly due to the creation of new infrastructure and...
This is one prediction we can safely make: ICTs will continue to lead to dynamic changes in education in 2013. The educational institutions will aptly deploy more innovative ICTs because they provide students and teachers with...
Madhya Pradesh, the second largest Indian State, has always been a tourists’ delight for its pre-historic paintings, temples and forts. Of late, it has emerged as one of the educational hubs in the country and now boasts of...
The pace of implementing ICT in our institutions might not appear to be fast enough, but our educational landscape is prepared for a new daybreak of digital education. The stakeholders in education, from the government and from the...
Today everyone is talking about enhancing the scope of modern education through the use of ICT, but it is also true that ICT is by itself a quite recent phenomenon. Most of the landmark developments in...
Today, more than a decade into the 21st century, we live in world where there is unparalleled surge in the usage of ICT. However, despite all the technological advancements, we have not been able to end...
At the time when I sat down to pen this editorial, the World Education Summit (WES) was still few days away, but by the time the issue reaches your hands, the Summit, scheduled for July 23-24,...
Major breakthroughs usually happen when what is feasible suddenly meets what is a desperate necessity. We are talking about the Tablet PCs, which have taken the world of education by a storm within a relatively small...
Lack of clear-cut policies on technology in education often makes the domain incoherent. The projects that are successful seem to small bits of a complex jigsaw puzzle being identified. With the advent of educational technologies to...
Now we have definitely entered the era of technology-centric classrooms, where students use a variety of digital tools to gain knowledge. Schools and higher education institutes are opting for classrooms that are decked out with laptops, big interactive screens...