A two-day ISTE workshop on “Aakash for Education” under the National Mission on Education through Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT) will be remotely held from IIT, Bombay during November 10 and 11 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. in Dr. V.A.Sastry Center for Innovation and Incubation, NIT, Warangal.
This workshop was aimed at training faculty of NIT, Warangal. Around 120 faculty of NIT, Warangal are participating in this workshop.
Under this workshop, IIT Bombay plans to deploy the Aakash tablets in selected remote centres in India, with two objectives. The first is to test and enhance the effectiveness of these tablets for use in class rooms.
The second is development of new educational applications and contents on Aakash, largely through final year Research and Development projects done by BE/ME students at these Institutes. NIT, Warangal is one out of 250 remote centre identified in this phase.
This workshop covers topics such as Aakash project overview, Aakash educational applications, Use of Aakash in Classroom, demonstration of clicker software, Education Day event highlights transmitted remotely from Vigyan Bhavan, New Delhi.
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