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Rajasthan Govt to let teachers collaborate in digital classrooms

The Government of Rajasthan’s education department will use Cisco’s Connected Learning solution to let its academia collaborate, create and share content across 12 State Institute for Education Management And Training (SIEMAT) centres in the state. These centres will be turned into digital classrooms by Cisco. Cisco and the Rajasthan Government will provide 50,000 hours of annual training through these classrooms. In June, the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) launched its e-learning content and digital classrooms and would include an interactive whiteboard, a digital podium, Android TV with a touchscreen and internet, document cameras to project live experiments and 3D diagrams. In August 2014, the Rajasthan Government’s Department of IT & Communication commissioned a project with Aksh Optifibre to open over 10,000 e-governance kiosks across rural and urban Rajasthan by 2016, as part of the e-Mitra project. MediaNama’s take: While digital collaboration and access to educational content is a step ahead, the government should formulate guidelines for what it plans to achieve and actually achieve it, either through defined processes or policies which ensure completion. Many a times, the government ends up spending money on initiatives which are forgotten about or end up biting dust. Implementation is key in digital where the landscape is ever changing and the changes are rapid. Other government education projects: - In July this year, the Government of India approved the SWAYAM Prabha project which aims to operate 32 DTH channels to provide educational content to teachers, students and other citizens. - In January this year,…

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