Microsoft India and Institute of Lifelong Learning to join hands to teach students basics of computers
Microsoft India and Institute of Lifelong Learning to join hands to teach students basics of computers
Now every student will get a chance to be tech-savvy in Delhi University (DU). Thanks to the joint effort of
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The 40-hour training can be accessed from respective colleges and that too for free of cost |
Microsoft Corporation India and Institute of Lifelong Learning (ILLL), this may ssoon be a reality.
The two bodies have come together to start a programme on digital learning that will help students learn the basics of computers.
Scheduled to begin from the first week of March, the 40-hour training programme can be accessed from the students' respective colleges and that too for free of cost. For every college, two coordinators have been appointed to help with the digital literacy programme.
"Computers are a must in any stream. Students who come from smaller towns lack the knowledge of computers, and this proves to be their handicap when it comes to joining the professional world.
In order to facilitate students, we are developing the content in multi-media format that will have online quizzes, animations, virtual laboratories and audio-video clips. Some of the clips have already been uploaded,''
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In 2009, similar kind of training was given to 120 teachers by ILLL. DU has become India's first public funded Central University to be 100 per cent ICT savvy, having an e-learning portal of its own that shall host curriculum-based, custom developed e-lessons, e-quizzes, e-labs and also, e-lectures for collaborative learning. |
said Prof A K Bakshi, director, ILLL.
The programme is scheduled for one year. Once the students successfully complete their training after taking a test, Microsoft and ILLL will issueu00a0 certificates to them. The mode of instruction will be in Hindi as well as in English and the training can be taken online as well.
"If a student goes through the same training from some private institute, it will cost a bomb. Since it's a DU programme, it is for free of cost," added Bakshi.
"We are happy that DU is coming up with such a programme. This will help thousands of students from smaller cities and towns who have difficulty accessing computers," said Sandeep Kumar, student of Ramjas College.
