ICT integrated Teacher Education Workshop Organized at DEP-SSA, IGNOU- March 11-15,2013

ICT integrated Teacher Education Workshop Organized at DEP-SSA, IGNOU

New Delhi/11/03/2013: World Open Education week, March 11-15, 2013 was marked by the opening of first ever “ICT Integrated Teacher Education” workshop by Director, CEMCA. Organized in partnership with DEP-SSA, IGNOU and ITforChange at IUC Multimedia Lab at IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi, the workshop focussed on the developing ICT skills amongst teacher educators of District Institute of Education & Training (DIET) from northern India.

While opening the workshop, Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, stressed on three aspects -- ICT integration, resource generation and participation in Community of Practice (CoP) as a combined strategy for developing a framework for continuous professional development of teacher educators. He also highlighted Commonwealth of Learning (COL)  support for creation of strong open educational resources platform, including the Open Resources for English Language Teaching.

Elementary Teacher Educators from representing Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Punjab and Haryana were welcomed by Prof. C.B. Sharma, DEP-SSA, IGNOU and his team by inviting them to become Master Trainers in the pursuit of creating a broad base of teachers integrating ICT at the district level.

Mr. Vikram Sahay, Joint Secretary, School Education, MHRD brought the reality of ICT while speaking to the participants from his office via Skype/phone. He appreciated the idea of ICT for teachers and echoed the aspirations of many by calling for creation of collaborative resources. 

A number of audio, visual and social softwares were demonstrated by the resource persons who also responded to fundamental questions in network usage and online searches. The participants practised and participated in the Teacher-Network forum actively. Participants’ work and views were uploaded to the web and shared throughout the workshop. Participants showcased learning from the workshop through group presentations. Altogether, seventeen participants from DIETs were initiated as Master Trainers in ICT integration through CEMCA Teacher-Network platform developed by ITforChange with the support of CEMCA. The workshop lab work was well supported by the technical team and facilitator team from IGNOU.

The closing was marked by Dr. Sanjaya Mishra, Director, CEMCA, taking stock of learning from the workshop and Prof. C.B. Sharma, Director, DEP-SSA distributed certificate to the participants in the presence of Ms. Neeru Mulhotra, Research Assistant, ITforChange; Ms. G. Mythili, Senior Analyst, STRIDE, IGNOU, Dr. Pankaj Khare, Registrar, IGNOU, Dr. R.C. Sharma, Deputy Director, IGNOU and Dr. Rekha Acharya, Programme Officer, DEP-SSA, IGNOU.