IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies, Vidya Shakti to bring education to 100 villages in Varanasi with ‘Online Classes & VR’-Education News

IIT Madras Pravartak Technologies Foundation has partnered with ‘Vidya Shakti’ to take education to rural areas of Uttar Pradesh through the use of Online Classes and Virtual Reality (VR). 

The Initiative has already been implemented in 100 villages of Varanasi District with the sessions being conducted in Hindi Medium for students of classes 6th to 8th. This initiative is intended to tackle the ‘knowledge gap’ created by Covid-19 between students from urban and rural areas. The classes are focused on the fundamentals of languages as well as on maths and science. Student retention levels have increased by adopting various technologies. STEM teachers take VR Headsets to classes to ‘act’ on the educational content and enable students to ‘feel’ the environment through the sensors. Short 3D videos are utilised for each concept in science and maths. The visualisation sessions are made interactive through Q&A sessions to make the experience memorable for students. IIT Madras PravartakTechnologies Foundation is the Technology Innovation Hub of IIT Madras.

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