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Education

IT for Change (ITfC) believes that ICTs can help to shape participatory and collaborative processes of learning as well as teacher professional development in education, and is concerned by the attempts to use ICT programs in schools to justify, without any basis, the privatisation of both curriculum and pedagogy in the Indian public education system.

ITfC undertakes research aimed at gathering evidence regarding the relative performances of different ICTs in education models. We engage with education policy makers through advocacy campaigns. We work on capacity building for educators and policy makers to promote alternative, more progressive, ICT in education models. We work on demonstration projects which show the appropriateness of such alternative models for the Indian public education system.

Capacity Building


Responding to the learning and developmental needs of out-of-school adolescents

Gurumurthy Kasinathan, Aparna Kalley, Chinmayi Arakali, Krupa Thimmaiah and Madhavi Jha
2011-

This paper is a response to a call for papers on "Responding to the learning and developmental needs of out-of-school adolescents - Experiences of South Asian countries" by the gender list of Solution Exchange (UNESCO) and Plan India. The commentary discusses the background, strategies...


The work of public institutions leads to continuous creation of knowledge, but such knowledge often remains with specific individuals or institutions. This policy brief argues for sharing of such individual knowledge across the institution, and sharing of institutional knowledge across the domain through the use of publicly available ICTs. It also outlines an organisational policy on...

IT for Change (ITfC), along with the Department of State Research Education and Training (DSERT), and Policy Planning Unit (PPU) and Development Focus (DF) (a local NGO) have designed and implemented a pilot “Teachers Community of Learning” (TCOL)...

The presentation discusses the key challenges facing teacher education and the need to evolve new models of teacher education that are need based, self directed and self paced learning with continuous mentoring, such models are...