Once India’s biography comes to the fore of education, it comes by way of Khan Academy - Khan Academy, which Salman Khan founded in 2006, to show us the concept of Digital Education or Digital Education.
Bridging the gap between the achievement of underprivileged students and their peers from all different strata of society, who enjoy better social and financial conditions, the inability to access learning opportunities, is a complex and multidimensional problem, and the most important issue in the field of education.
In fact, India has great efforts in integrating education with ICT technologies, and its achievement of changing the form and methodology of receiving knowledge in all parts of the world, by shifting from formal school indoctrination to digital transformation and distance educational interaction, regardless of the type of education available to the student or curriculum That follows.
Beyond Khan Academy, here are three educational initiatives from India, no less important, and believe in making a difference in education through personalized learning adaptive to student skills, ensuring that they learn with understanding and away from indoctrination and memorization:
EkStep
EkStep is an Indian education initiative
EkStep Interactive came as a charitable effort from India, under the auspices of an institution of the same name; To build an open educational platform for a range of learning resources in reading, writing, numeracy and more.
To help tackle a number of challenges, by creating, publishing and sharing easy access to thousands of interactive education content for non-linear, agile and scalable solutions.
The initiative was founded by Nandan Nilekani, author of "Imagining India" and co-author of another book, "Rebooting India: Realizing a Billion Aspirations," and Foreign Policy magazine ranked him as one of the Top 100 Global Thinkers in 2010.
The platform is nothing but an interactive community, made up of a group of people who are passionate about education issues (students, parents, teachers, developers, writers, artists, painters, and many others) who contribute to reshaping access to education.
This content ranges from educational materials, explanatory videos, interactive content, stories, training worksheets, assessments, photos, audios, and other assets, created and shared by community members.
According to the World Bank, EkStep has created an open digital infrastructure that provides learning opportunities for 200 million children, as well as professional development opportunities for 12 million teachers and 4.5 million school principals.
Story Weaver
The platform is supported by Pratham Books publisher, which provides easy-to-use tools for creating, reading, translating, downloading, printing and sharing new children's stories, adaptation and translation, as it acts as a digital portal for children's delightful visual stories, licensed with an open Creative Commons license; To provide children with reading resources.
It allows teachers and writers to link readers, authors, painters and translators; To create and weave free stories for children all over the world in their mother tongue, with the aim of developing their reading skills and enjoying stories from all over the world in their dialect, using the attractive and impressive graphic design.
This is whether users are online or not, by providing a service that allows them to build their own story office without being connected to the Internet, using progressive network technologies so that the site can be used without an Internet connection.
Mind spark
It is an educational innovation that aims to help children improve their math skills
Online self-learning platform, coming from India; To help teachers and students study effectively and improve their math skills through questions, practice, games and reports, and it allows each student to follow a learning pathway that is accredited and tailored to their needs.
The Mind spark platform adapts to each student’s level of learning, gradually introducing students to a specific concept, and if it responds correctly, the following question is marginally difficult compared to the previous question, enabling the student to learn the concept in a comprehensive, subjective and gradual manner.
However, if the student's answer is incorrect, Mind spark provides a step-by-step explanation, then begins to ask questions again gradually, which encourages students to think and respond in every step.
Author: Rikimaru