Courses are being designed with a purpose of making learning easy for students and will include video tutorials as well
Very soon, school students will have to study around 20 per cent of their course syllabus online and take the tests also on the online platform.
The National Council for Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is developing a number of courses especially for school children from Class 1 to 12 under the Central government's digital India scheme and it will be made mandatory for students to complete a part of their school work online.
The credit score for the same will also be transferred to their annual assessment, a source in NCERT said.
The courses that are being designed with a purpose of making learning easy for students will include video tutorials as well. Experts in Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET), a nodal organisation of NCERT has been tasked with the responsibility of developing these courses.
"We will put up a series of courses for school students on various subjects from science to arts. The schools will have to first register with National Repository of Open Educational Resources (NROER) to access the courses and then they can recommend whatever course they want their students to study," a source in CIET said.
"The government is working on a policy by which, it will be made mandatory that 20 per cent of the course syllabus is completed online under the digital India scheme," the source added.
The source informed that the courses will be put up on the website by the end of the year, and they will be accessible to schools from the coming academic year, once the policy is finalised by the HRD Ministry.
The courses will be based on the parameters prescribed by NCERT, but with more practical information.
If there are more than one papers in a subject, one of them will be taught online. For example, in chemistry, if any class has to study Organic Chemistry, Physical Chemistry and Inorganic Chemistry, one of the papers will have to be completed online.
The platform will also be open to suggestions from public on the kind of courses that they want to be introduced on the platform. All these courses will be put up on the government of India websitenroer.gov.in.
NCERT is already running an online library in the form of e-pathshala, which has study material for both school and college students. However, it was not mandatory for children to take a part of their course online. Once it is made mandatory, it can pose challenges for schools located in remote areas where access to internet is a problem.
Under Digital India
Schools will have to register and pay a certain amount to access the courses through National Repository of Open Educational Resources, which a platform providing online study material to students. Subjects that require practical knowledge will have more number of courses on the platform.
Under the digital India scheme, various stakeholders have been tasked with developing courses for different sections of the society like school students, college students, school dropouts and those who want to pursue technical education. All these cousrses will be made accessible to them online through government's SWAYAM platform.
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