Department of Education Technology and Material Development
Roles and Responsibilities
The Department of Education Technology and Material Development aims to encourage and promote technological skills among teachers in the district. Digital materials provided by SCERT will be disseminated in the district. The best-performing teachers’ video contents are identified and sent to SCERT to be added to the digital library.
Key Functions
- Organise technology-based training for all stakeholders involved in the school system and TEIs (e.g. Teachers, Heads of School, Teacher Educators, BRCs, CRCs).
- Assist in creating a variety of technological aids and digital learning resources to aid the teaching-learning process of different subjects for teachers and students—through web, as well as mobile platforms.
- Constantly innovate and adapt global and national innovations in digital learning as relevant to the needs of the State, working in collaboration with other faculty from the Division of Curriculum Studies.
- Carry out action-research/projects of ICT innovations with a particular emphasis on determining the impact of new ICT interventions on the quality of students’ learning outcomes or teacher education outcomes.
- Maintain DIET’s website.
- Produce digital learning materials.
- Conduct online or offline assessments in the district.
- Create a database of e-resource groups in the district.
- Extend technological support to other departments of the DIET.