Chennai: The Indian Institute of Technology, Madras (IIT-M) was coordinating a national effort to create crash courses for rural learners which will be telecast on educational television channels.
Around 300 hours of video lectures have already been created under this initiative. The first broadcast is scheduled for 28 August.
This new content will be broadcast on NPTEL Channel 11-18 until 31 August and rescheduled on Channels 11-16 from 1 September, a release from IIT-M said.
The core objective is to help rural students who could not attend classes due to the Covid-19 lockdown. “The focus is to create crash courses with an emphasis on problem-solving approaches”, it said.
The lectures were recorded by faculty from various central universities from their homes. The release said the schedule of lectures are available and will be updated on the DTH SWAYAM Prabha website: https://www.swayamprabha.gov.in/
The project was initiated by Dr B S Balaji, Associate Professor, School of Biotechnology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, and supported by Prof K Mangala Sunder, Head, Department of Chemistry, IIT-Madras and Chief Coordinator, DTH SWAYAM Prabha, Union Ministry of Education, N Parameswaran, Advisor, SWAYAM, and a pool of academic faculty members from various central universities.