Virtual classes have been started
in more than 500 government schools of state of Uttarakhand. Further education
department has initiated Grooming Young Minds (GYM) and Mission for Excellence
in Examination (MEE) programme with the help of these virtual classes. These
virtual classes may be boon to the various durgam (inaccessible) schools of Uttarakhand
where there are shortages of staff or subject teachers. These are kind of audio
visual rich exciting experience for the children of government schools of Uttarakhand
who have never even seen an LED TV at their home or never seen the computers or
even mobiles. If maintained and run with right attitude by the concerned persons
of the education department of the state government, these can be a game
changer in long run. However it’s only half battle won unless these audio video
classes in government schools are used properly and more significantly
maintained and developed further. Generally it is seen that in government
sector things are taken casually and not maintained properly due to various
reasons which I don’t want to discuss here for now.
Virtual classes are basically a
kind of live video conferencing where there are live lectures and the students
can interact in real time with the teachers teaching at the studio (set up at
Rajiv Gandhi Navodaya Vidayalaya, Nalapani road Dehradun). There is prescribed
schedule for the lectures to be delivered at particular time slot. For now the
focus is on the subject of Science and Maths for classes 9-12th.
I will in new article try to give you further details of the
virtual classes in Uttarakhand.
