Intel have joined hands for a national initiative for empowering
teachers to develop 21st century skills through professional
development programmes.
According to the MoU signed on May 5, these programmes will be
deployed at the IGNOU-Institute for Competency Advancement of teachers
(iCat) centres.
The pact was signed by U.S. Tolia, Registrar (Admin), IGNOU, and Anjan
Ghosh, Director, Corporate Affairs Group, Asia Pacific, Intel, in the
presence of Vice Chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai; Pro-VCs Dr.
Latha Pillai and Prof. K.R. Srivathsan; Ashutosh Chadha, Director -
Corporate Affairs Group, Intel South Asia; Dr. Anita Priyadarshini,
Project Director, Distance Education Programme - Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan
(DEP-SSA), among others.
"Such collaboration between IGNOU and Intel will lead to the creation
of new models of teaching and learning, and will help upgrade the
capabilities of current and future teachers. This pact is a part of
IGNOU's concept of societal responsibility to enlarge the knowledge
based egalitarian society, and in cooperation with Intel, we hope that
this will also help the national perspective of human resource
development to lead India into a knowledge economy," said Prof.
Pillai.
He also emphasized on the need to involve more universities,
especially in distance education mode, to tie up with teacher training
institutions.
"If we can network like this, then lots of synergies can be created
and we can trigger a movement in this country for advancement of
teacher education. Networking can trigger the movement in all the open
universities. In that case, we can also emulate the system followed by
the Chinese Open University, which has its own faculty for educating
teachers," he said.
"Students and teachers in this century must be prepared to think
critically, creatively, collaborate, communicate effectively, navigate
and learn successfully in an inter-connected, technological world.
Empowering professional teachers to innovate allows them to find new
ways to improve learning. This is a critical factor for achieving
education transformation to support the economic growth of India,"
said Chadha.
According to the MoU, "IGNOU will integrate relevant level curriculum
in the professional development programmes to be conducted at the iCAT
centres. It will identify the Key Resource Persons (KRPs) in each of
its iCAT centers who will be responsible for conducting regular
training programs through these centres. Intel will conduct
empowerment programmes for the KRPs identified by IGNOU, who will be
given intensive training by the Intel Senior trainers on the Intel
curricula. These KRPs will conduct further training programmes for the
participants in each of the iCAT centres," said the MoU.
The MoU identifies four sections under which the training will be
imparted. These courses can be offered as capsule or as continuous
enhancement programmes, viz. understanding productivity tools and 21st
century classroom approaches; understanding classroom technology
integration and student learning enhancement; understanding
enhancement of students' higher order thinking using online tools; and
in-depth understanding into project based approaches, assessment and
collaboration.
The projects created by teachers will be uploaded on the IGNOU/
Sakshat website. The collaboration offers an Intel Teach Programme for
in-service teachers for their professional development while
supporting 21st century skills.
It aims to build the capacities of the in-service [PRT (Primary); TGT
(Secondary) & PGT (Senior Secondary)] teachers at school level as well
as the teacher educators from colleges of education and student
teachers who are undergoing teacher training programmes.
The programme will help develop the technological skills of personnel
from university departments, resource institutions, NGOs and partner
institutions of IGNOU.
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