‘KOOL’ is Kerala’s new open online learning program

‘KOOL’ is Kerala’s new open online learning program

‘KOOL’ is a new online learning initiative from the Kerala Infrastructure and Technology for Education (KITE). The platform is an open online learning initiative which can be used to train teachers, students and the general public alike. To start with, teachers will be trained first and the first batch will commence from next month. Registrations for the same will commence from Sunday. “With the state’s schools going Hi-Tech, requiring teachers and students to be trained on different domains simultaneously, it was decided to launch KOOL,” a press release said. The entire learning program has been designed on the MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) model, which is becoming extremely popular. “KOOL is a major step by the State of Kerala to become India’s first complete digital state in Education”, said Prof C Raveendranath, state Education minister. KOOL has lots of features built into it such as video tutorials and checklists for practicing the activities, a press release said. “We have 200 mentors with a capacity to train 4,000 persons at a time”, K Anvar Sadath, Vice Chairman and Executive Director, KITE said. For teachers, it is compulsory that they complete 45 hours of computer course in order to clear their probation period. The six-week course includes word documents, spreadsheet, presentation, image editing, video-audio editing, development of digital resources, Malayalam typing, internet, educational applications. Upon the successful completion of the program, teachers will be awarded the certificates.

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