VidYaOnline.net
Title
Vidya Online - An initiative for primary education in India
Contact
- Vidya Online
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- New Delhi XX
- India 110068
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- 91 11 6523153
Description
Ever since Independence, India has been striving to provide better educational opportunities to all. Despite the efforts, universal primary education has eluded us. Many innovative programmes like Operation Blackboard, Special Orientation Programme for Teachers, DPEP, and now the Sarva Shiksha Abiyan at the National level and many state level interventions, Lok Jumbish, Bihar Education Project, Andhra Pradesh Primary Education Programme, to name a few have tried to assuage some of the ills that are plaguing the system. The major challenges have been: getting children to school, retaining them there and seeing to it that children receive meaningful and relevant instruction. Much needs to be done in all these three areas. Convinced that internet and web based technologies can be a very useful and apt tool, Vidya Online has committed itself to the use and popularisation of ICT for education. This website is a step in this direction.
Realising that teachers, researchers and general public are the three most important instruments of change in education, Vidya Online aims at building up comprehensive sections to cater to their requirements and to network them for mutual help and support. The object is to nurture a cooperative effort of teachers, teacher educators, academics and concerned individuals and groups aimed at introspection, critical appraisal and discussion on education.
The site offers curricular support materials, books in digital form, general readings, a list of resource persons and institutions engaged in primary education, help and discussion forums, e-courses and guidance to conduct classroom research.
