'Rollout of OLabs' - CBSE to help teachers to use digital labs for better teaching

MUMBAI: To encourage use of online lab resources in the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE)-affiliated schools, the board has asked its teachers to undergo training organized by the Online Labs (OLabs) for School Environment, an open source.

OLabs is a virtual online e-Learning initiative developed jointly by C-DAC, Mumbai and Amrita University, Kollam with funding support from the department of electronics and information technology, government of India.

In a circular issued on the CBSE website, the board said, "It provides students experience of virtual experiments that will stimulate their interest and learning by giving them the virtual experience of doing real lab work, by graphically resembling with laboratory equipment and simulating a virtual medium."

The content has been developed for classes IX and X in physics, biology, chemistry, mathematics and English and is aligned with the CBSE syllabus for classes IX and X. However, it is open for all students and schools as a free resource for all schools (teachers and students) in India and is accessible free of cost on the website. A DVD version is also available on demand.

Called 'Rollout of OLabs', it will train CBSE teachers to use and manage digital resources. "All schools affiliated to the Board are advised to encourage their teachers to attend the training programme on OLabs..." said the circular.

Source | Times of India| 8 April 2016

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