Cisco to launch remote teaching programme

BANGALORE, INDIA: Cisco Systems on Friday announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Karnataka government to deploy a specialized remote intervention teaching programmes for two government boys hostels in Shimoga district.

The pilot project, based on Cisco Education Enabled Development (CEED) platform, is aimed at achieving inclusive growth. Based on cloud technology and architecture, this programme will be on a public-private partnership model, where Cisco will deploy its solution and maintain it as a service that includes remote access and support.

About 450 students in the two pre-matriculation hostels at Vidyanagar and Shikaripura will receive intervention training in English, Math, Social Sciences and Science. Sessions would be conducted after class for these sixth to tenth standard students.

Children’s Lovecastles Trust, an NGO that specializes in pedagogy and providing access to quality teaching for remote government schools using technology, will deliver these training sessions.

“Education is an important element to inclusive growth and networking and cloud technologies are the best ways to accelerate this process. Cisco’s technologies will help provide access to basic urban amenities such as education, healthcare, marketplace, and public services to remote and rural areas across the country,” said Aravind Sitaraman, president, Inclusive Growth.

He added that the company has created an architecture that brings high-quality educational content in a virtual teacher-student environment to children in these regions.