SCERT, Telangana and TISS launched the CLIx Open Educational Resources (OER) web portal at the Indira Priyadarshini Auditorium, Public Gardens, Hyderabad. The portal was launched by Dr. B. Janardhan Reddy, Secretary, Education, Sri T. Vijaya Kumar, Commissioner & Director of School Education, Smt B Seshu Kumari, Director SCERT and Prof Padma Sarangapani, TISS..
The DEOs of Warangal Urban, Karimnagar, Vikarabad and Siddipet, teachers and students were also present at the event. SCERT and TISS awarded course completion certificates to 66 teachers who were enrolled in the Post Graduate Certificate Programme in Reflective Teaching with ICT, offered by the Centre for Education Innovation and Action Research (CEIAR), TISS Mumbai. During the programme, students and teachers demonstrated the CLIx modules and interactives, showcased their work and shared their experience of using technology and the CLIx resources.
TISS also presented its findings from research studies on the learning outcomes of CLIx that shows significant gains among students in English with 52.5% gain in listening, 25.3% gain in speaking, in Mathematics with 45% gain and in Science with 39.8% gain relative to their pre-test scores.
The Connected Learning Initiative (clix.tiss.edu) is a programme seeded by Tata Trusts and led by Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA from 2015 at CEIAR. CLIx offers a scalable and sustainable model of open education for high school students and teachers.
CLIx incorporates thoughtful pedagogical design and leverages contemporary technology and online capabilities, aimed at improving access to quality education in under-served and resource constrained contexts. In Telangana, CLIx is being led and implemented by the SCERT in 300 schools across 13 districts and has reached 18163 students, 2730 teachers and 175 teacher educators.
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