A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) had been reached between New Delhi Municipal Council (NDMC) and Khan Academy of India (KAI) aimed at improving the standard of education in the council’s schools by making optimal use of tablet-based smart labs. The MoU had been inked by Secretary, NDMC, Chanchal Yadav and Managing Director KAI, Sandeep Bapna to this effect at NDMC Headquarters in New Delhi.
Explaining about the agreement, Chanchal Yadav said that the Tablet-Based Smart Classes would be rolled out across 28 schools of NDMC and it would facilitate about 11000 students and over 150 teachers. And added that the technology was transforming the way children were learning and NDMC had already introduced Smart Class Rooms in its schools, which were yielding very good results.
The vision of scheme was to ensure inclusive and equitable quality education from primary to senior secondary schools by focusing the modern technology, she said.
And added that it might be very easy for us to give assignments and assess each student’s progress real-time, without any manual evaluation, he said.