TCS and SASTRA University join hands to train teachers

Indian IT giant Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has partnered with the Shanmugha Arts, Science, Technology & Research Academy (SASTRA University, Tamil Nadu) to train university teachers about digital-based teaching methods.

The program would train more than 2,000 school teachers from various educational institutes across tier 2 and tier 3 cities in Tamil Nadu.

"Technology is rapidly transforming the education sector with digital technologies increasingly becoming an integral part of the students' daily lifestyle. By announcing this initiative for teachers in Tamil Nadu on the special occasion of Teacher's Day, TCS believes that empowering the teachers through this program on digital learning pedagogies will help enhance the quality of education provided across Tamil Nadu," said TCS executive VP Ajoyendra Mukherjee.

Along with space for digital teaching methods, the training centre would also house a language lab, digital assessment solutions, lecture capture solutions, studio to develop learning material, facilities to develop simple applications for a teaching-learning ecosystem and other support facilities for the training programmes, says an official release.

Each programme would train 45 teachers over a period of six days.

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