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TN All Set To Establish Education Terminal

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Tamil Nadu is all set to establish a Satellite Interactive Terminal, which would facilitate two-way video and audio interaction between teachers and students. The terminal was in an advanced stage, while in Kerala a similar terminal was launched recently, Distance Education Council Chairman and Indira Gandhi National Open University Vice Chancellor H P Dikshit told reporters here on Wednesday.

Dikshit, who was here to inaugurate a conference on ICT-Enabled Distance Teacher Education organised by the Tamil Nadu Open University, said the Indian Space Research Organisation had come forward to provide a hub and 10 terminals free of cost to each State.

Tamil Nadu was one of the first States to have shown interest in the project. The State would provide the studio and manpower to set the terminal into motion.

A National Core Group headed by Dikshit had already started testing the national network of Edusat, the dedicated satellite for education. By mid-August, as many as 500 terminals, both Satellite Interactive Terminals and Receive Only Terminals would be installed in different parts of the country to finetune teaching methodology.

About 100 such terminals were already functioning. The new terminals would be handled by the IGNOU, the University Grants Commission, the All India Council for Technical Education and the National Council for Education, Research and Training, he said.

A Rs 15-crore project involving the IGNOU, Ministry of HRD and ISRO has been envisaged under which 1200 primary schools in four backward districts in the country would be networked through Edusat.

By training the teachers through this facility, value addition could be brought into education. This is a pilot project which can be extended to the whole country, he said.

Earlier, addressing the National Council for Teacher Education (NCTE) - Distance Education Council Collaborative Round Table Conference, Dikshit noted that with the requirement for higher education likely to double in six years, there was a need to use Information and Communication Technology to take education to all.

However, this could be done successfully only by improving the pedagogy of teachers and introducing innovation in the teaching-learning process

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