Solan-based, Shoolini University’s Centre for Distance and Online Education (SCDOE) has announced a strategic partnership with Common Service Centers (CSCs) to deliver its online and distance learning programmes to students in rural and remote areas across India. Common Service Centers (CSCs) are digital access points that deliver government and private sector services to citizens, particularly in rural and remote areas. The …

Birla Institute of Technology & Science (BITS) Pilani, an Institute of Eminence (IoE) hosted a convocation to commemorate the academic achievements of 7,839 working professionals. These professionals graduated in different MBA, M.Tech., M.Sc., and B.Tech. programmes from the institution’s Work Integrated Learning Programmes (WILP) division. While about 1,000 graduates attended the convocation in person, more than 6,800 graduates participated virtually with …

By Kadambari Rana Given the backdrop of our country’s demographics, which suffers from population explosion, large scale poverty and dismal accessibility to modes of communication, online education for school going children is ‘unworkable’. Virtual classroom is the new normal. Efforts of several schools and teachers who are working round the clock to provide some semblance of continuation of education to …

The current academic session marred and disrupted by covid19 pandemic is being run through online classes by schools as well as higher education institutions. The very presence of video conferencing platforms and apps like Google Classroom, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Webex  and others all have made this transition possible and as a stopgap measure opened the horizon and acceptance across the …

According to a leading expert in the field of cognitive neuroscience from Harvard, what matters in screen time is the content that is consumed and the context of it that affects one’s well-being. It is also imperative to make a distinction between productive and unproductive screen time. Screen time where an adult is on the other side engaging children in …

. One booklet titled ‘Cyber safety-A Handbook for Students of Secondary & Senior Secondary Schools’ id directed at secondary level students.  Second handbook is for school leaders titled, ‘In Pursuit of Excellence- A Handbook for Principals’. And, the third handbook is called ‘21st Century Skills: A Handbook’