BHOPAL: In order to provide the latest and updated free books to the students, the higher education department prepared an e-content of 17 main subjects of different disciplines. Higher education minister Dr. Mohan Yadav has said that it is being prepared in the first phase for the first-year courses under the National Education Policy in the state.
Minister Yadav said that there is an action plan to prepare more than one thousand e-content models by November 10. “The target is to ready e-content of about1500 modules for the first year. In the second phase, content on some other subjects will also be prepared. Madhya Pradesh will probably be the first state in the country to provide econtent on the basis of National Education Policy 2020,” said minister Yadav.
He further said that apart from course books, e-material would also be available to the students for studies in the colleges of the state. “All efforts are being made to provide a quality education through online medium. The contents being prepared will be available for video lectures, e-texts, assessment questions and references to other subject contents as per the rules of the University Grants Commission,” he said.
Notably, this work is being done free of cost by the regular teachers, guest scholars of government, non-government universities and colleges of the state. Applications were received from about 1400 teachers for this work. A 6-day faculty development programme was organised for these teachers in seven batches. In this, a total of 1056 teachers were issued certificates on successful completion of FDP.
Various teachers have been entrusted with the task of preparing the content of 17 subjects. These were botany, zoology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, sanskrit, english literature, foundation course, political science, geography, economics, sociology, history, geology, hindi, commerce, textile and clothing courses by making module wise divisions.
