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An NIIT Foundation and Nokia Project

A Partnership between Nokia and NIIT Foundation

July 2012 – June 2013

Energized Classroom Using Nokia Mobile Learning


Energize the Classroom Using Nokia Mobile Learning by faculty content co-creation and use of multimedia in classrooms

Goal

To examine the use of Nokia mobile education applications/tools in class towards boosting the performance of the students in the age group of 16 years and above in urban slums.

To study the role of Nokia mobile education applications in facilitating and enhancing the quality of training delivery of the trainers.

To put together a robust database of training content ported on the mobile platform.

To look at the potential of scaling up such that the Nokia mobile education tools could be made available to students, trainers and education centres at large.

Objectives


How Nokia Education Delivery (NED) & Nokia Data Gathering (NDG) work?

Quizzes

Surveys

NED Content

NDG Content

Interview Skills

English

Etiquettes /Grooming

IT etc.

Class Room

NED +

NDG Server

Community

Prospective Students and

Parents

Counseling

Community/ Prospective

Students

NED

NED+

NDG

NDG NDGNDG

Demo

Data Capture

NED


The Nokia Education Delivery software (free)Nokia phone(s): the service runs on Windows,

Symbian, S40 and Asha devicesTV/projector and cable (if used for collective

learning in a class room)Content: educational media files (some

materials are available for free)+ lesson plansServer: hosted cloud server or own server

and server management (Apache Web Server and Postgre SQL)

Associated Technology


Total Students Impacted by Nokia Tools till date 1653 Session Content items in IT and Soft Skills uploaded on

NED server - 85 Certification of 40 Trainers The project has impacted 8 Career Development Centres in

20 slum communities of Delhi NCR

Impact


To take Energized Classroom to Rural Areas that don’t have access to a computer but have Mobile Access

To create Mobile based content that is localized and relevant to the students in rural areas

To port Relevant Existing NIIT Foundation Content for Delivery through the Mobile Platform

Future Direction


A Glimpse of the Journey so far


Integration of Mobile Phone Technology in Class

1. The trainers work together to co-create session content which is then uploaded on NED server.

2. Trainers download session content in the Nokia 701 mobile phone

from NED server to conduct class sessions.


3. Class assessments are conducted using NDG application.

4. Students experience a new way to

give class test through mobile phone unlike the conventional way of writing on paper.

Integration of Mobile Phone Technology in Class


At the time of Counseling, the first interface of the youth / potential students with NF, they get a glimpse of the distinct methodology of training through mobile phone technology.

Integration of Mobile Phone Technology

in Counseling

They appear for screening / pre assessment tests using mobile phone.


Integration of Mobile Phone Technology in Mobilization

Mobilizers gather information on survey forms from the community members using NDG tool.

Data is entered on the mobile

Data automatically reaches the server and is usable in real time

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Back at the center, this data can be downloaded from NDG server and exported into excel sheet and used for making counseling calls.


Community members especially women and girls are curious and keen to know about the mobile phone tools.

Integration of Mobile Phone Technology in Mobilization

While interacting with the community members, the mobilizer also gives them a brief idea about NED class sessions.

Mobile phone being used in the field to demonstrate ICT based training methodology used by NIIT Foundation to the youth and their family members.


Insights shared by Students“My dream is to start my own coaching institute. Having learnt and applied NED & NDG tools in my course here, I am quite excited thinking about using mobile technology in education in my institute as well”. Muskaan, CDC Brahmpuri

“My trainer could make revision exercises available to me on phone while I was preparing for my final exam from home and not coming to the centre…How exciting it would be when I would not need to carry books, when all those lessons would be right there in my cell phone”.Saira,CDC Brahmpuri

“No one could cheat and copy my answers. Doing tests through NDG was a new experience very different from writing test on paper as in school days. It saves paper and there is no chance of mess ups with cutting, overwriting in case of mistakes”. Ruksar, CDC Brahmpuri


Insights shared by Trainers“ NED provides ready access to training content. I

can prepare session plans through the phone while travelling in a metro or sitting comfortably in bed. I do not have to then open or carry a laptop”.

Shikhar PrateekSoft Skills Trainer, Sunder Nagri

“NDG brings efficiency not only in conducting class tests but also in gathering critical data through survey forms, response forms, pre assessment tests at the time of admission. In the normal course it would take me around 15 to 20 minutes to feed information from a student response form into the database, now reduced to 4 to 5 minutes”.

Preeti BinnaniCenter Manager, Brahmpuri

““When I showed a video in class using NED tool, I did not have to explain much to the students. They could register and understand the lesson very fast. Hence I could cover more topics in a class. NDG tool helped me to cut down on steps of answer sheet correction, entering marks in excel, where possibility of answer sheets getting misplaced could not be ruled out”. Aditi MasseyCenter Manager, Nizamuddin

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