With the objective of ensuring online well-being of students and preparing them for the future of work, the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), and Facebook are launching a comprehensive curriculum on Digital Safety & Online Well-being and Augmented Reality (AR). The modules are for secondary school students. The curriculum is now available on the CBSE website http://cbseacademic.nic.in/fb/FacebookForEducation.html. This partnership is led …

Edubull, online learning platform, announced the launch of B2B platform ‘e-Professor’ that shall enable educational institutions and individual teachers, to serve their students online. Amid Covid19 crisis, the technology aims to simplify and digitize learning. As the name suggests, the app facilitates both teachers and students with a platform where they can interact, however through digital medium for further learning.e-professor technology, …

To promote experiential learning pedagogy in schools, CBSE in association with Tata Trusts has developed an interactive online course on ‘Experiential Learning’ for teachers and school leaders. This course is available on MHRD’s Diksha platform. According to a letter sent to schools by CBSE, the training course aims to share multi-sensory pedagogical processes in the experiential learning, sensitize educators to …

Dr Shashi Tharoor, former union minister, renowned author and Member of Parliament representing the Thiruvananthapuram constituency, has joined Gurugram-based Masters’ Union School of Business (MUSB) as a Master. He will teach a foundation course at the Masters’ Union and while doing so will draw from his experience as an eminent thinker, writer, administrator and one of the most revered political …

Shreyansh Anchlia, a B. Tech student along with the ideation from faculty members Dr. Goldie Gabrani and Nishtha Phutela of BML Munjal University (BMU), Gurgaon, has developed a game called ‘Unlock Me’, to help spread awareness about COVID-19.   The game plays out as a simulation of real-life risks related to COVID-19, such as players getting infected by coming in …

Union skills minister,  Dr. Mahendra Nath Pandey, today said that skilling, up-skilling and re-skilling of the India’s workforce will play a crucial role in the success of the Government’s vision of Atmnirbhar Bharat and the recently launched Garib Kalyan Rozgar Abhiyaan.He said that if required the government would give permission to run PMKVY centres and ITIs (Industrial Training Institutes) in …