TISS launches online portal
for school education
Students will have free access to interactive modules for science, mathematics, communicative English
The connected learning initiative
(CLIx) of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) Mumbai has created an online
portal with the educational resources it has created over four years.
On Friday, the portal, CLIx Open
Educational Resources (OER), was launched with over 100 hours of digital
resources and interactive modules for science, mathematics and communicative
English for secondary school students.
The course material has been released under creative common licence that allows
anyone to use, remix, modify, and adapt and adopt the resources.
Over the course of four years, the modules, which have been designed in Hindi,
Telugu and English, have been implemented in 478 government schools in
Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana.
Padma M. Sarangapani, lead, TISS,
said the launch was a milestone in CLIx. “The State governments are eager to
implement the modules in other schools. Going forward we will be focussing on
producing interactive modules and teacher development.”
CLIx has been a four-year-long
action research project executed by TISS in collaboration with Massachusetts
Institute of Technology, and has been funded by Tata Trusts. The project aimed
to create a scalable and sustainable model of open education for high school students
and teachers.
It has since won the UNESCO-King
Hamad Prize in 2017 and the OER Collaboration Award 2019.
“A recent study we conducted
across all four States showed that girls and students from the marginalised
sections who have had access to the modules have seen significant learning
gains, when compared to students from schools who did not have CLIx,” Meera
Chandra, lead, CLIx research, said.
Prof. Sarangapani also said their
research shows the modules are truly effective only when they are used by
teachers in classrooms. “The interventions are not effective on their own. The
role of the teacher is critical while employing interactive educational
resources.”
Source |
The Hindu | 10th December 2019
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