Haryana State Council of Educational Research and Training has developed a new mobile application Meri e-Pustak and a test version of digi-lEP (learning Enhancement Program) teacher training online course.
launching the app and test version, Additional Chief Secretary School Education Department Dheera Khandelwal on Saturday said Meri e-Pustak was developed for showcasing and disseminating all educational e-resources including textbooks, audio, video, periodicals, and a variety of other print and non-print materials. In the new Meri e-Pustak text books and all learning Enhancement Program (lEP), books of classes 1 to 5 would now be available on mobile application.
She said lEP support material is also available through digi-lEP website and digi-lEP WhatsApp groups.
NCERT recognises ‘Meri e-Pustak’ of SCERT Haryana as first ever state at national level in developing it in-house (departmental resources and NCERT support only).
Students, teachers, educators and parents can access eBooks through multiple technology platform such as mobile phones and tablets (as epub) and from the web through laptops and desktops (as Flipbook). Meri e-Pustak also allows users to carry as many books as their device supports.
SCERT has plan to develop trainings on all subject content of lEP and primary textbook’s activity based learning approach in the form of online course, she added. It is pertinent to add here that National University of Educational Planning and Administration NUEPA has also directed all states to go online through its School leadership course.
Education Department is working on alternate solutions of trainings, in addition to existing face to face teachers training. SCERT is working on this project and developed an online course on lEP, named “Understanding lEP”.
This course is aimed to give orientation to block level mentoring and monitoring officers to have first hand awareness of program. This course comprises of text content, posters and audio/video content and also has assessment facility of participating teachers. During the running of course, participants performance can be tracked on real-time basis and a team of experts remain available for support and mentoring during course.
Khandelwal said SCERT Haryana, under Department of School Education is working hard to take various digital initiatives for teachers training under the Saksham Haryana Programme.