“Bharat Padhe Online Campaign” launched by Ministry of HRD
The Ministry of Human Resources Development has launched a week long campaign called “Bharat Padhe Online Campaign”. The campaign aims to improve online education in India.
Highlights
The main aim of the campaign is to invite experts in the country to share their knowledge and solutions in order to overcome the constraints in promoting digital education. Students and teachers are the main targets of the campaign. Though there are several other initiatives to promote online education in India, this campaign is launched to bring in all the experts of different fields to share their knowledge during lock down.
Other e-education initiatives
Swayam is a massive online course that hosts all courses taught from 9th class. Swayam Prabha is another initiative of GoI that provides educational contents developed by experts through DTH television channels. National Digital Library consists of more than 6.5 million books and can be accessed for free.
Month: Current Affairs - April, 2020