Wednesday 18 September 2013

Datawind join hands with TES India to provide free educational resources

The UK-based tablets maker Datawind said that it has signed a strategic partnership with TES India, an online community by the teachers for the teachers.

A media release from the company said: "With this strategic partnership Datawind would be able to offer a huge library of five lakh ready-to-use teaching material to its end users. Datawind is targeting teachers' community via this strategic partnership. Teachers and institutions can choose to teach their students absolutely free of cost by using this library. They can also teach their students an international syllabus, which can help them keep in sync with global standards."

Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO & President, Datawind said: "This partnership will allow Datawind users to access high quality, interactive and engaging educational content for free. Also this partnership will strengthen teacher's community so that they can deliver quality education which is a need of the hour by Young India."

"We are delighted to be working with Datawind. We are committed to driving excellence in the education sector, and this partnership will help teachers to access the very best classroom resources - lesson plans, assessments, worksheets, presentations and more", said Sachin Kapoor, general manager, TES India.

An application created for the purpose will have learning materials available for several courses like Bachelor of Arts, B.Com, B. Ed, general awareness, entire CBSE content, educational presentations, discussion on social topics and many more.

There is content available for special need of special children which will help teachers to understand different cases.

According to press release, the most amazing feature is that teachers can find employment for themselves and on the other hand students will be able to locate a great career guide for themselves too as it has Jobs services on the portal that is not chargeable.

This platform will enable teachers to share teaching & learning material so that they can learn from each other hence contribute to a better learning and creating great recourses for the country.

- See more at: http://www.voicendata.com/voice-data/news/195776/datawind-join-hands-tes-india-provide-free-educational-resources#sthash.8w918m4G.dpuf

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