Gurugram-based Extraclass aims to motivate students by rewarding them on the basis of their efforts and not outcomes. It is a social online learning platform, launched in 2017 by three visionaries- Persainjit Singh, Prakash Gupta, ...
This teacher’s day, Eagle 2.0, a humanoid robot gave a lesson on thermal physics for eighth-graders, at Indus International School, Bangaluru, becoming India’s first-ever robot teacher. Eagle 2.0 works as a teacher assistant and is ...
Slug: Numerous accidents have been reported from all over India prompting several cities to ban such online games. In December 2018, Vellore Institute of Technology banned the online game PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds or PUBG on the ...
Going to school no longer means just picking up a bag full of books and riding a bus to the school building. Mobile technology has changed all of that. Thanks to mobile applications, online schooling ...
Adaptive learning is a computer-based system that gauges a student’s performance and accordingly alters the study material presented to the student in real time. Teachers can customise the responses of the system using the learning ...
The Divine Light Trust, a philanthropic organisation based in Mussoorie, has introduced an initiative for digital education called ‘Chetna’. Under this, the students will learn basics of spoken English and science through visual effects, sound, animation and ...
The government is looking at creating a content depository for teachers. The depository will help teachers to develop, curate and spread teaching material and, therefore, improve education quality. The government believes that a content depository ...
When we entered the new millennium over a decade ago, our obsession with big data began. Individuals and companies, alike, came to realise the importance of collecting, maintaining and analysing data sets. From waking up ...
Technology has touched all spheres of life, including education. The advent of technology in the classroom has opened new avenues for teachers to teach and students to learn. Now, teachers have varied technological resources at ...
In a first, HCL Technologies Ltd has decided to hire students straight out of high school and train them to be IT professionals. As part of a pilot programme started in Madurai, 100 students ...