Maharashtra has become the first state to create an education technology forum designed to tackle ways to improve school education using EdTech. Education technology had been quickly growing in relevance since the early 2010s but thanks to Covid-19, it is the need of the hour. Maharashtra School Education Minister Varsha Gaikwad tweeted that the state had created an education technology forum that would allow exchanging ideas on how education technology can be used for improving school education.
The Maharashtra Education Technology Forum would comprise experts from the information and technology sectors and will act as a policy think tank for school education. It will serve as an independent evidence-based advisory framework on technology-based interventions in school education.
Senior representatives from tech giants such as Google India, Microsoft India, Cognizant, Persistent, Dell, Amazon, C-DAC among others will be part of this forum. Looking forward to explore with them the future of education.
The presence of such experts would make sure that inputs were coming in from the top echelons in the tech world.