Science, math
videos for kids in nine languages, courtesy IIT-B
Mumbai : Twenty-six students of the Indian Institute of
Technology-Bombay (IIT-B) are creating educational audio-video content for
Class 6 to Class 10 students in nine languages for free.
Every week, the students of the IIT-B’s National Service Scheme (NSS) wing
upload around two educational videos, in Science and Maths, on their YouTube
channel – Open Learning Initiative (OLI). In August, the channel reached 1 lakh
subscribers.
The videos are developed, designed and recorded by the IIT-B
students in Marathi, Hindi, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, Odia, Tamil, Gujarati
and Bengali.
“Going forward, we plan to expand the videos to more classes and
subjects,” said Vaibhav Chandan, department head, educational outreach of NSS,
developing content for OLI.
He added that developing content for OLI is a three-pronged process. “The 15
first year volunteers of NSS create the content using textbooks. These are
reviewed by the nine volunteers from the second year and two volunteers from
the third-year. Then there is a final review conducted by the person uploading
the video,” he said.
The students were prompted to start the initiative in 2015 as
there is a crucial dearth of free, educational content in regional languages.
Source | Hindustan Times | 4th November 2019
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