Mou for e-learning
In an endeavour to empower teachers and enhance learning outcomes of students, Government of Kerala announced its partnership with Khan Academy India (KAI) recently. The highlights of the MoU:
5 year partnership covering 4,775 schools, 1 lakh teachers and 20 lakh students.
In the first year, the State will link the academy’s content to Samagra — its education portal, provide training to all teachers in the state, and begin a 20 school personalised learning pilot. Learnings from the first year will be applied to a Statewide rollout over the next 4 years.
The academy’s content, via website and apps helps students attain grade level mastery. Teachers can track progress, identify gaps and use data to help students.
Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education to empower teachers and students.
Guha as chair prof
Renowned historian and biographer, Dr Ramachandra Guha, will join Ahmedabad University as the Shrenik Lalbhai chair Professor of Humanities and Director of the Gandhi Winter School at the University’s School of Arts and Sciences. Dr Guha will help design a curriculum that lies at the intersection of history and other streams in the Humanities and explore how history can enrich diverse disciplines.
Dr Guha said, ‘I am delighted to join the faculty. Ahmedabad has a great tradition of public-spirited philanthropy in higher education; and the university is a notable renewal and extension of that tradition.”