Capacity Building Programme for Teacher Educators of NIE-Maldives, to Develop Mobile Applications Relevant to the National Curriculum
New Delhi, February 08, 2016: Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA), New Delhi organised a Capacity Building Programme for Teacher Educators of NIE Maldives to Develop Mobile Applications Relevant to the National Curriculum from 31 Jan 2016 to 4 Feb 2016 in collaboration with National Institute of Education (NIE), Republic of Maldives. Twenty five teacher educators from different parts of Maldives attended the workshop. Ms. Rashmi Kathuria, National ICT Awardee, PGT(Mathematics), Kulachi Hansraj Model School, Delhi, India facilitated this five days workshop along with Dr. Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Programme Officer (Education), CEMCA, New Delhi. The main objective of the capacity building programme was to equip them with skills fordeveloping their own android apps as per the National curriculum. The workshop was designed to embed two elements viz. using App Inventor, a cloud based platform, for creating android mobile apps and open educational resources.