Zee News and PTI cover workshop at KKCOE
Zee News and PTI covered the workshop on OER and FOSS at Kapila Khandvala College , Juhu .
Mumbai: Over 80 city teachers were trained
in e-learning using Free and Open source software to cope with
the globalisation of education in the country.
A two-day University Grants Commission's seminar, held
in collaboration with Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
(HBCSE), CDAC and IIT-Bombay, trained over 80 teachers in
Information Centric Technology (ICT), Principal of
Kapila Khandvala College Vandana Maheshwari said.
|
|
|---|
The national institutions provided infrastructure and the resource persons included Sasikumar from CDAC, Jitendra Shah from VJTI, Mumbai, Nagarjuna from HBCSE and Kannan Moudgalya from IIT-Bombay. The seminar concluded yesterday.
This was he first in the series of e-learning workshops and several such training programmes will be held for teachers in the city during the year, she said.
The seminar's focus was on the use of Open Education Resources (OER) using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
The participating teachers said the most interesting feature of the national seminar-cum-workshop was the hands on experience provided on spoken tutorials using two softwares, Netlogo and Geogebra.
Maheshwari said the need to become ICT-savvy was visible in the overwhelming response to the seminar and the number of paper presentations made.
Open software was the most inexpensive way to create educational material for self-learning and can be used in the vernacular languages too, IIT's Kannan said.
PTI
