The Operation Digital board aims to improve the quality of teaching-learning and ensure that the graduates are suitable for requirements of societyand market. Do you agree with this view? Analyse (200 Words)
Refer - The Indian Express
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KEY POINTS
· ODB aims at converting a class room into a digital class room and in addition to availability of e-resources at any time and at any place to students.
· It will also help in provisioning of personalised adaptive learning as well as Intelligent Tutoring by exploiting emerging technologies like Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence & Data Analytics.
· UGC will be the implementing agency for ODB in Higher Educational Institutions to improve the quality of across country.
· But the quality of infrastructure in schools will hurt the objective of the scheme; the existing state of electronic infrastructure — computers, a lone projector, a few printers — remains persistently pathetic on account of poor or zero maintenance.
· Even internet availability is intermittent and usually of poor quality. Then comes the problem of teacher shortage even in these schools.
· The state of elementary schools is even more worrisome. There are over 1 lakh schools with just one teacher. So implementation of operation digital board in such areas will be very difficult.
· The alleged problems of these institutions, such as outdated curricula, indifferent faculty, poor learning outcomes, lack of meaningful pedagogies, or unemployable graduates have nothing to do with digital technology bottlenecks.
· Faculty shortages are crippling the publicly-funded higher educational system, as well. The lack of interest, among students, in academic work arising from a conditioning produced by a combination of poor schooling, aggressive coaching and lack of appropriate jobs cannot be treated with any digital medicine.
