Mumbai: Multiple non-governmental organisations came together to launch a web-based learning management system to facilitate quality education for the underprivileged students studying in government schools. The online portal will allow students to learn their academic curriculum for free through over 1 lakh curated videos.
In 2023, various NGOs from across the country came together to find a solution of the disparity in quality education available to the students in private schools and government schools. The collaboration resulted into an idea of JEET (Joint Efforts For Educational Transformation), a web portal to provide video-based courses to students across the state education boards.
JEET was launched on Tuesday with around 30,000 curated videos for students studying in Class KG to Class 12 of Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Jharkhand, Haryana and Telangana state boards. However, it has already received over 1 lakh videos in its depository for free from NGOs and educational institutions like Avanti Fellows, BCPT, Educomp Mathguru, Khan Academy, Magnet Brains, Pratham NGO, Tic Tac Learn, Vimbue, V.K.R.C.E. Trust.
These videos will be classified according to the language, standard and subject and then will be curated according to the state boards, chapters, topics and sub-topics. While the students can learn their curriculum courses through these videos, it also conducts tests and quizzes or each topic. While JEET is accessible through its website, the initiative plans to launch a mobile application soon with AI-based video curation facility
Students and teachers would be able to access JEET either through a website now, or later on a mobile-based learning app very soon. RKSS also plans to train the teachers to utilize the platform for children and will conduct demo sessions for the school children and their parents as well.
JEET will be partnering with various government schools where this web-based learning management system will be emphasised to provide better quality of education to children. Apart from teacher volunteers joining the initiative, the teachers of these government schools will be assigned to the students, who will be able to check their performance, give grades, submit reports and rank them. Similarly, the parents can also keep a tab of their child’s performance.
According to Ramakrishna Sarada Samiti (RKSS), steering the initiative, JEET is expected to provide learning content for 10 lakh students from more than 10,000 government schools across six states in India in the initial phase. RKSS came up with the idea to curate vast online educational content into accessible resources for government schools during the Covid-19 pandemic, when its education initiatives got affected.
Raghu Pilaka, director of RKSS said, “Quality education is a fundamental right. JEET, a result of collective NGO efforts, will empower underserved children with quality education to overcome socio-economic barriers and become future leaders of India. We are actively using AI to scale our work through EduX platform and many more initiatives in video-based learning.”
