Datawind, TES India to provide free educational resources

NEW DELHI, INDIA: Datawind, low cost tablet manufacturer has signed a strategic partnership with TES India, an online community by the teachers for the teachers.

With this strategic partnership Datawind said, it would be able to offer a huge library of 5, 00,000 (5 lakh) ready-to-use teaching material to its end users.

Datawind further added that an application created for the purpose will have learning materials available for several courses like Bachelor of Arts, B.Com, B. Ed, general awareness, entire CBSE content, educational presentations, discussion on social topics and many more. One can even learn and teach Sanskrit online by use of this application!

"There is content available for special need of special children which will help teachers to understand different cases," it said.

Suneet Singh Tuli, CEO & president, Datawind said, "We aim to bring a PC Tablet for every student in India, but the hardware itself is not enough to serve the purpose of empowerment."

"This partnership will allow Datawind users to access high quality, interactive and engaging educational content for free. Also this partnership will strengthen teacherÂ’s community so that they can deliver quality education which is a need of the hour by Young India," he added.

Addtionally, teachers can find employment for themselves and on the other hand students will be able to locate a great career guide for themselves too as it has Jobs services on the portal that is not chargeable.

"We are committed to driving excellence in the education sector, and this partnership will help teachers to access the very best classroom resources' lesson plans, assessments, worksheets, presentations and more," asserted Sachin Kapoor, general manager, TES India.

"There is a selection of the most popular lesson plans covering math, English, geography, history, science, physical and health education and expressive arts. You can download as many of these lesson plans for for free," added Kapoor.

The platform also enable teachers to share teaching & learning material so that they can learn from each other hence contribute to a better learning and creating great recourses for the country.