Jammu: Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, KK Sharma,
today launched Digital Infrastructure for Knowledge Sharing (DIKSHA) and
VidyaDaan portals-cum-App in Jammu and Kashmir.
Principal Secretary, School
Education Department, Dr. Asgar Samoon, also attended the event via video
conferencing from Srinagar.
Among others, Commissioner
Secretary Higher Education, Talat Parvez; Chairperson J&KBOSE, Prof Veena
Pandita; Director School Education Jammu, Dr. Anuradha Gupta; Director School
Education Kashmir, Younis Malik and Project Director Samagra Shiksha Dr. Arun
Manhas were also present.
Pertinently, DIKSHA portal
enables, accelerates and amplifies solutions in realm of teacher education. It
aids teachers to learn and train themselves and create training content,
in-class resources and connect with the larger teacher community.
Speaking on the occasion,
Advisor Sharma said that Department of School Education is taking several
innovative initiatives to improve the quality of teaching as well as learning
in J&K. He added that due to the spread of COVID-19, education of students
has suffered everywhere and traditional ways of teaching and learning are being
rapidly augmented with online methods. It is the right time and opportunity to
strengthen the e-learning content for school education on DIKSHA and leverage
its potential used by all students and teachers, he said.
He urged the educators and
learners to download such applications and make best use of it.
The Advisor reiterated that
this program is a call to individuals, organizations, schools (private and
Govt), and NGO’s across the JK to contribute e-learning resources in the
education domain to ensure that quality learning continues for learners across
the Union territory of J&K during this unprecedented situation attributed
to COVID-19 pandemic.
“VidyaDaan will be rolled out
in a phased manner in J&K, initially we invite all government school
teachers to contribute and subsequently it will be open to all private school
teachers, NGOs and independent content creation organizations as well,” he
added.
Principal Secretary, while
briefing about these apps, stated that DIKSHA platform offers e- learning
material relevant to the prescribed school curriculum. “Teachers will have
access to aids like lesson plans, worksheets and activities, to create
enjoyable classroom experiences. Students can have better understanding of
concepts, revise lessons and practice exercises,” he said.
Dr. Samoon added that
VidyaDaan programme brings together academicians and organizations to develop
and contribute fun and engaging e-learning content aligned to the curriculum.
Later, Dr. Arun Manhas,
informed that department aims to leverage DIKSHA, as a platform for teaching
community to create and exchange e-resources as a result to bring about
qualitative changes in teaching learning process. He added that a Resource
Group of 140 Subject Matter Experts, who are actively working on DIKSHA, has
been formed and they have been given training of digital content creation and
usage of DIKSHA portal. These resource person are creating digital content
which shall be uploaded on the portal and subsequently linked to JKBOSE
textbooks, he added.
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