Unnayan Banka: Innovative Education using Technology

Background

Education is a great social mobiliser and must be everyone’s birth right. However, several challenges persist in the Indian education system. These include lack of quality, poor learning capability, lack of good teachers, teachers’ absenteeism, poor infrastructure, high inflation in higher education sector etc. In Banka, modern technology is used to impart quality education to a large group of students in order to increase their employability.

Intervention

‘Unnayan Banka’ is an initiative that envisages ‘quality education for all’, using latest technologies. It is a multi-platform model, where students receive educational content on various technology platforms like LCD/LED TVs, projectors, laptops and especially on mobile phones. The videos are animated, contextualised and comprehensive. Keeping in view the high penetration of mobile phones, quality education on mobile platform makes it an ‘Anytime-Anywhere’ model popularly called ‘Mera Mobile-Mera Vidyalaya’. Continuous assessment (tests), round-the-clock doubt discussion, generation of digital report card of each student, progress monitoring, tool for adaptive learning etc. are also incorporated in it to complete the learning cycle. Shifting from traditional Chalk & Talk model, it provides contextualised multimedia content that is easier to understand. Questions asked by students even from the remotest part of the District are being answered by an expert team comprising of IITians, corporate professionals and educators.

Impact

Employability is an integral part of the ‘Unnayan Banka’ initiative. Recently, 25 students got placements in IT major Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) and most of them belong to the underprivileged category.

Source : Aspirational Districts for WEB