online education
Smartphones bringing kids closer to studies in rural India
Almost 70 percent of rural parents who have given smartphones to their kids say it has boosted their child’s interest in studies, says a survey conducted by DIU, a collaboration between TRI and Sambodhi Research.
Teachers turn rural house fronts into classrooms
Teachers of a government school in a Jharkhand village have turned exterior walls of mud houses into blackboards and raised platforms into seats, to ensure students continue their education
Online classes spell end of education for rural girls
With boys getting preference to use the single multimedia phone at home, girls from poor rural households have discontinued studies, resigning themselves to an early marriage
How online education fares in rural Odisha
Inadequate digital infrastructure forces rural children to lose touch with their lessons and take up work. Classroom learning is their only hope of getting educated
Lockdown break will undo remote tribal students’ learning
First generation learners in remote villages lack online and community resources to learn at home during lockdown, as mandated by government. They will need to relearn, to make up for lost time