The Massive Online Open
Courses (MOOC) created by 53 autonomous institutes of the country will prove to
be the game changer for the entire educational scenario, observed Deepak B
Pathak of IIT, Mumbai, a pioneer in the field of e-learning activities.
Inaugurating the A N Khosla
Centre for Technology Enabled Learning at the National Institute of Technology
of Rourkela here on Tuesday, Pathak emphasized on the expanding reach of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT). He felt that this would enable
the faculties to develop better pedagogical tools for imparting education.
The Principal Investigator
of the Teach 10000 Teacher (T10KT) of National Mission on Education through
Information and Communication Technology, Government of India, Pathak said,
“faculties must improve quality of teaching through technical support system”.
Besides, he felt, “there is
an urgent need for the teachers to reach the underprivileged of the society to
enhance their knowledge base and bring them to a level where they can compete
with others”.
“It is a request to all the
faculties to adopt technology in teaching and especially the greater advantages
of ICT”. He was of the opinion that teaching should not remain confined to
class room teachings only it should move beyond he campuses. Only then will,
“teaching reach millions at one point in time enabling many to learn”.
Director NIT Rourkela,
Sunil K Sadangi said the future of education is e-learning and no one can stop
this, so the faculties, mostly the younger lot, should learn the intricacies of
it”.
Several educationists,
directors of institutes and technical varsities participated in the workshop
that followed the inaugural function. Sarat Kumar Patra of NIT Rourkela made a
presentation on use of different pedagogical elements in the teaching learning
process.
The convener of the
workshop Suchismita Chinara, of Computer Science Engineering Dept, who will
incidentally
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