Oracle to train teachers in North-east

With the objective to take the cyber world and e-learning to the doorsteps of students in the interiors of North East via its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) venture "� think.com, Oracle Education Foundation has embarked upon an initiative to train teachers in the region.

Think.com is a protected online learning community where students can share educational content, collaborate on projects, interact with teachers and build knowledge.

A 2 day training camp for 52 teachers from 26 different schools of the region has just ended in Guwahati.

The training camps are aimed at enabling the teachers to try their hands at numerous cyber applications and introducing them to the nuances of cyber world and e-learning. The teachers are in turn expected to introduce the concept of e-learning among the students in the schools.

Around 70 schools and 3,000 students have already registered themselves with think.com from North East, informed a senior official from Oracle Education Initiatives, who is in the city presently in connection with the training camp.

She believes such teachers' training camps will go a long way in making the students of the region use the cyber world as a means of learning.

Though the e-education venture of Oracle Education Foundation is a global initiative and does not look at countries or regions separately, she said, it wants more and more schools from the region to be part of the community website.

Think.com was launched in India in 2004 and presently has more than 1100 schools registered with it, most of them being the Kendriya Vidyalayas. The programme is under collaboration between Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan in India and presently has more than 1.5 lakh users in the country.

This e-learning community offers students an access to over one lakh teachers globally.

Recently, a city based teacher from Kendriya Vidyalaya, Maligaon, Anutosh Deb, had an opportunity to visit Rome as the cultural ambassador of India. Impressed by his e-teachings on think.com, Scuola Statale Pietro Metastasio, a school in Rome, invited him to deliver lectures on Indian art.