Panel for country’s first virtual school set up
The committee was formed by Deputy CM and Education Minister Manish Sisodia in a review meeting held on Thursday.
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NEW DELHI: Taking a major step towards establishing the ‘Delhi Model Virtual School’, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government has constituted a six-member committee comprising school principal, teachers and IT officials to study global practices in virtual schooling. The committee has been asked to submit a blueprint within a week.
The committee was formed by Deputy CM and Education Minister Manish Sisodia in a review meeting held on Thursday. A first of its kind, the virtual school is aimed at providing excellent education to students remotely through personalised teaching-learning, effective assessments and cutting-edge technology.
The Delhi government on Thursday constituted a six-member committee comprising school principals, teachers and IT officials to study the best global practices in virtual schooling and submit a blueprint for the national capital s virtual school, officials said. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia presided over a meeting to outline the scope of the Delhi Model Virtual School, a first-of-its-kind school that would strive to provide education to students remotely through personalised teaching-learning, effective assessments and the use of cutting edge technology, they said. The Delhi government had proposed to establish the virtual school in its 2021-22 Budget. According to the officials, existing models of virtual schools in the US and New Zealand were discussed in the meeting.