Governor Arif Mohammad Khan has called upon universities to truly embrace digitally enabled education and exploit the potential of the ‘new normal’ in the post-pandemic era.
Presenting the Chancellor’s Award for Best Universities at the Raj Bhavan here on Tuesday, Mr Khan urged the state universities to imbibe the benefits of internet-based education.
Pointing out that the State is ready to promote the use of technology in education through the Kerala Fiber Optic Network (KFON) project, the Governor appreciated the efforts made by the universities in making a significant contribution in offering online open courses on a large scale. Regretted the slow progress. MOOC) through services like Study Webs of Active-Learning for Young Aspiring Minds (SWAYAM). He hoped that all the State Universities have uploaded at least 50% of the lectures on the online platform for wider reach.
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The Chancellor also urged the universities to work towards introducing online examinations in their teaching departments within a time-frame, which is the first step towards realizing the goal of ‘anytime-anywhere examination’ system.
He said that the higher education sector cannot afford to neglect training teachers in the use of online educational technologies so that they can integrate research and teaching with digitally enabled education and online classes in line with the outcome-based learning approach. to present more productively.
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Highlighting the plight faced by the state which is lagging behind in higher education standards despite enjoying high level of literacy and social awareness, Mr Khan said that such issues have to be addressed at the earliest as the future prospects of the state are in this way. depend on the progress of the sector. ,
The Governor presented the Chancellor’s Award for 2019 to the winners in multidisciplinary and special categories, respectively, from the Cochin University of Science and Technology (CUSAT) and the Vice Chancellors of the Kerala Veterinary and Animal Science Universities.
While Mahatma Gandhi University and CUSAT shared the Chancellor’s Award for Multidisciplinary Universities in 2020, Kerala Agricultural University was adjudged the best among emerging/distinguished universities.
Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan presided. Higher Education Minister R. Bindu, Additional Chief Secretary (Higher Education) V. Venu, Kerala State Council of Higher Education Vice-Chairman Rajan Gurukkal and Member Secretary Rajan Varughi, and Vice Chancellors of various universities were present.
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