Online classes is work of a resilient community where schools, teachers and parents—are collaboratively coming together to keep the flame of learning:—burning, writes Autar Nehru The novel CoronaVirus or COVID-19 as specified by the World Health Organization (WHO) after becoming the most serious health security threat world over since its outbreak in December last year in the Chinese city of …
In a big development, government has come up with guidelines on this year’s academic calendar disrupted by Covid-19 pandemic. The alternative academic calendar AAA, https://ciet.nic.in/pages.php?id=aac, has been developed by the NCERT for all the classes from I-XII and subject areas. In order to engage students meaningfully during their stay at home due to COVID-19 through educational activities at home with …
Leading IITs i.e. IIT Bombay, IIT Delhi, IIT Guwahati, IIT Kanpur, IIT Kharagpur, IIT Madras and IIT Roorkee have decided to not participate in any of the Times Higher Education (THE) – World University Rankings this year (2020). These IITs will reconsider their decision next year if Times Higher Education is able to convince them about the parameters and transparency …
Ashoka University is starting a new online lecture series, Scientifically Speaking, on April 17, 2020 for high school students. The series is open for all. Through Scientifically Speaking, Ashoka University aims to connect high schools students and anyone who is keen to learn with interdisciplinary scientists exploring complex problems. The lecture content will decode the most sophisticated scientific questions of our time …
As per a post by Bani Dhawan, Head of Education – South Asia, and Satya Raghavan, Director, YouTube Partnerships – India, Google has taken various measures to support learning/teaching processes to support student and teacher communities in COVID 19 pandemic, which has necessitated temporary mass closures of schools, colleges and universities. To help parents, students, educators (or just the …
An international team led by an Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode student, Simran Soni, is pioneering a vital digital tool to fight the COVID-19 pandemic of misinformation. The website ‘COVID FYI’ (covidfyi.in) is a one-stop digital directory for all Covid19 related services and help released by official sources. The website aims to bring the right information from the right sources …
