CUHP in collaboration with CIET, NCERT organised a two day workshop
Author(s): Arvind SharmaA two day workshop being organised by CUHP in collaboration with CIET, NCERT. Dharamshala, November 28, 2014: The Department of Teacher Education, School of Education, CUHP in collaboration with CIET, NCERT organised...
Dharamshala, November 28, 2014: The Department of Teacher Education, School of Education, CUHP in collaboration with CIET, NCERT organised a two day workshop National Repository of Educational Resources. The workshop is conducted with the objective of apprising research and post graduate students about access to open resources of knowledge.
Professor Amarender Behra, the expert from NCERT emphasised that Open Educational Resources (OER) have potential to increase the availability of content for use by teachers and students, and also for engaging them in a constructivist approach to learning. At school level, policies like National Policy of ICT in School Education-2012 and the ICT@ School Scheme-2004, the Government of India has encouraged collaborative creation and widespread dissemination of learning resources. It proposes setting up state and national level digital repositories which will host a variety of digital content appropriate to the needs of different levels of students and teachers.
Professor Y S Verma, Vice-chancellor CUHP inaugurating the workshop underlined the role of access to knowledge and its importance in open society. Dr Manoj Saxena Head and Dean School of Education CUHP while introducing the expert and workshop affirmed the belief that these endeavours in field of education will have long lasting influence on our understanding of knowledge. This workshop for two days has around forty participants who are teachers, students and researchers from various disciplines and the teachers from Central School for Tibetans, Dalhouse and Shimla.
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Date:
Friday, November 28, 2014