DoSE Nagaland scripts Online Education prog success story

A teacher conducts online of Class VIII English subject on the topic ‘The ant and the cricket’ on May 14. 

Kohima, May 14 (MExN): The Department of School Education (DoSE), Nagaland commenced its Tele/Online Education programme of broadcasting video and radio lessons through Doordarshan and All India Radio, Kohima from May 1. As on May 12, Nagaland is the 14th State in India to launch the Tele/Online Education Programme during the COVID-19 Lockdown. 

Voluntary teachers 
Giving a detail report on the programme Principal Director, Directorate of School Education, Shanavas C, IAS said that the department invited applications from serving government and private school teachers residing in and around Kohima for delivering lessons through the digital media. 

Nearly 50 teachers volunteered for rendering their services and a total of 23 teachers (11 from government schools and 12 from private schools) were selected through a screening process for executing the project. Presently, the telecast of lessons is been done for students of classes 8 to 10 and 12 and it is proposed to extend the same for students of classes 5 to 7 in the near future.  

Recording process
Recording of the video lessons is been done at the newly setup temporary studio at the Directorate of School Education under the supervision of DoSE officers and the team ‘Take One Nagaland’ has been wholeheartedly carrying out the task of the production of the video and audio recordings. Officials of Doordarshan Kendra, and All India Radio, Kohima have been extending cooperation and support beyond their call of duty for the successful execution of the programme.  

Coverage and Broadcast
As ensuring maximum coverage for the DD and AIR broadcast across the State including the remote areas is very much essential for achieving the objectives of the programme, Shanavas said that all the DEOs/Sr, SDEOs/SDEOs and School Heads were requested to work in association with District Administration in each district and made necessary arrangements for students who do not have the facilities to access the DD satellite telecast at home to view/listen the broadcast at a common place like Village Hall, School Auditorium etc.

The broadcast schedule is made in such a way that only two classes will be having the lessons on a particular day, so that children will not group up in large numbers in schools or village council halls where the telecasting is viewed. 

“As people viewing TV telecast using private DTH service providers are unable to view the telecast as the service providers have not included the DD Kohima satellite transmission in their telecast list, the matter has been taken up with the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting,” Shanavas informed. 

Other mechanisms 
All the videos telecasted through Doordarshan are also shared with public through the Youtube channel of the department, ‘DoSE Nagaland’ and also through the Facebook page ‘School Education, Nagaland’ so that students, parents and teachers could download/access the videos during their leisure time and make best use of the telecast.

The department also directed schools to device mechanism for preparation and circulation of notes for the lessons being broadcasted. The department proposes to make Class wise DVDs of the entire telecast and distribute to interested persons at a nominal charge.  

The DoSE Principal Director in a message issued through the DIPR claims that “the Tele/Online Education Programme of DoSE Nagaland has made a sensational hit in the social media with its Youtube registering 14,200+ subscribers within a short span of time of its launch. The programme has earned the appreciations of people from different walks of life and thousands of students from other States have also subscribed to the Nagaland’s Youtube channel.”

 “The department proposes to carry forward this initiative even after the lifting of lockdown so that the students’ community could make use of the expertise and experiences of the best teachers serving in the State Capital,” Principal Director added.