Mumbai: Over 80 city teachers were trained
in e-learning using Free and Open source software to cope with
the globalisation of education in the country.
A two-day University Grants Commission`s seminar, held
in collaboration with Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education
(HBCSE), CDAC and IIT-Bombay, trained over 80 teachers in
Information Communication Technology (ICT), Principal of
Kapila Khandvala College Vandana Maheshwari said.
The national institutions provided infrastructure and
the resource persons included Sasikumar from CDAC, Jitendra
Shah from VJTI, Mumbai, Nagarjuna from HBCSE and Kannan
Moudgalya from IIT-Bombay. The seminar concluded yesterday.
This was he first in the series of e-learning
workshops and several such training programmes will be held
for teachers in the city during the year, she said.
The seminar`s focus was on the use of Open Education
Resources (OER) using Free and Open Source Software (FOSS).
The participating teachers said the most interesting
feature of the national seminar-cum-workshop was the hands on
experience provided on spoken tutorials using two softwares,
Netlogo and Geogebra.
Maheshwari said the need to become ICT-savvy was
visible in the overwhelming response to the seminar and the
number of paper presentations made.
Open software was the most inexpensive way to create
educational material for self-learning and can be used in the
vernacular languages too, IIT`s Kannan said.
PTI
