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From Delhi, Indians to teach students in Africa
Saturday, May 15, 2010 10:41:08 AM,
Azera Rahman, IANS |
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New Delhi:
Just like a typical classroom scene, a professor will deliver a
lecture and students will raise their hands to ask questions. Only
here, the teacher will be at the Delhi University (DU) campus while
the students will be in Africa.
As part of the Pan-African e-network project between India and
Africa that was launched last year, DU will start conducting these
unique tele-education classes for students of the African Union from
July this year.
A.K. Bakshi of the Institute of Lifelong Learning (ILLL) said:
“Initially, the subjects that will be taught through this medium
will be two - accountancy and English - but gradually more subjects
will be brought into the loop.”
“As part of the project, the teacher will sit in the studio in the
DU campus and interact with students in Africa. They will see each
other through a plasma TV - it will be a virtual classroom just like
they show in ads these days!” Bakshi told IANS in an interview.
The syllabus has been drawn through mutual agreement, he added.
While the African Union has 53 countries and the project aims to
connect India to all of them, the DU has until now entered into
agreement with just six of them.
“DU will initially assist students in six African countries which
includes countries like Gambia, Niger and Somalia,” said an official
of the Telecommunications Consultants India Limited (TCIL), which is
assisting in the technical aspects of implementing the project.
However, it’s not just DU which is involved in the process.
“Besides DU, similar tele-education services will also be offered by
Madras University from July this year. Similar programmes are also
going on in the Amity University and the Indira Gandhi National Open
University (IGNOU),” Bakshi said.
The other universities and institutes associated with the project
are the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani;
the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur; and Indian
Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore.
In all, 10,000 African students are expected to benefit from this
project.
Besides tele-education, tele-medicine, e-governance, e-commerce and
resource mapping, meteorological services and infotainment are the
other sectors in which India and Africa have agreed to foster a
relationship.
Just like in tele-education, 12 prominent medical institutes in
India like the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS),
Apollo Hospitals and Escorts Heart Institute are involved in
offering tele-medicine facilities to people in Africa.
The project is for a period of five years.
(Azera Rahman can
be contacted at azera.p@ians.in)
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