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About AIF…

About AIF…. When and where was AIF founded?. AIF was born out of relief efforts following the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 Beginning with fundraisers in Silicon Valley, New York and Chicago, AIF found an outpouring of support from Americans concerned about India's development.

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About AIF…

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  1. About AIF…

  2. When and where was AIF founded?

  3. AIF was born out of relief efforts following the Gujarat earthquake of 2001 Beginning with fundraisers in Silicon Valley, New York and Chicago, AIF found an outpouring of support from Americans concerned about India's development

  4. When did AIF start its work in India?

  5. The organization started its work in India in 2002 with 44 schools registered under School Online Program across various metropolitan cities viz Delhi, Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai Schools-Online is a non-profit public charity organization with the goal to bring Internetand ICT to disadvantaged schools in the world including India and was founded by KamranElahianin 1996 and merged with Relief International in 2003

  6. From AIF to AIFT! AIFT came into being in 2005 before which it was a liaison office. Now AIFT is registered as an independent NGO

  7. What are the 3 pillars of AIF?

  8. What are the signature programs of AIF?

  9. Signature Programs of AIF AIF has five signature programs that feature scale, uniqueness and impact. In addition, AIF has Innovation programs that are pilot efforts to introduce new ideas with the potential to achieve scale and impact. AIF directs most of its resources to its signature programs

  10. Who were the 1st executive directors of AIF and AIF India ?

  11. The Executive Director of AIF in 2002 was Mr Pradeep Kashyap • The Executive Director, India was Mr Shankar

  12. Who is the chair person and the who is the vice chair person of AIF?

  13. Chair person is SmtLata Krishnan Vice Chair person is MrPradeepKashyap

  14. Who is the new CEO and the Country Director of AIF?

  15. CEO is Mr Ravi Kumar Country Director is Dr Hemanth Paul

  16. What was Learning Links foundation ?

  17. Learning Links Foundation was an organization from where AIF outsourced trainers before having its own pool of trainers and facilitators. (2003 - 2005)

  18. What was the change of role of DE

  19. DE tied up with EZ Vidya in 2008, a Chennai based co. to prepare a manual. The manual is called ILTM (Instructor Led Training Manual), launched in 2010, which is the standard manual that is followed in all the states where DE program is running.

  20. What are the concepts elaborated in ILTM and how long is it and which of these is the lengthiest?

  21. ILTM encompasses concepts of pedagogy, project based learning as well technology so that all of them together go hand in hand. It consists of 85 hours of material

  22. How many different kinds of programs are running under DE?

  23. Some of the concepts in the ILTM are the following: • MI • CT • BBM • CL • CT

  24. What is a thick server - thin client?

  25. Thick server thin client – In this model, a computer acts as a server and other dummy computers work with the help of this server. It is cost efficient

  26. What is the ‘hands off eyes on’ approach?

  27. This approach is followed in DE lite models. The no. of hours and the frequency of days that a cluster coordinator spends in a particular school comes down. • For e.g. A coordinator who used to visit one school once a week for 6 hours now does so once a month for maybe 2 hrs. His role shifts from giving training to establishing dialogue with the head, looking after the infrastructure and simply monitoring the program

  28. What is the difference between a classical model and centralized model of DE?

  29. The difference between the 2 is that in a classical model, AIF coordinators go to the schools to give training to teachers where as in a centralized model, these teachers come to a central place to get trained. This model is working in Delhi, Orissa and Punjab and in Coimbatore (TN)

  30. There were studies conducted by external agencies to measure the effectiveness of the DE programWhich were these 2 agencies and in which states were these conducted. What was the inference of these studies?

  31. A study was conducted by ERU (Educational Resource Unit) in 60 schools of Andhra Pradesh, Punjab and Rajasthan, Orissa. • A study was conducted by IMRB (Indian Market Research Bureau) in 2009 in 110 schools of Punjab.

  32. How many schools are there under • FSC • LSP

  33. Which is the smallest state where DE is being implemented?

  34. Pilot initiatives: DIET A pilot initiative, at its experimental stage in Delhi (2) and Sirsa (1), Haryana

  35. What is a DIET?

  36. District Institute of Education and Training

  37. What are the corporate programs under DE? • Dell Connected Classrooms (DCC) : Along with laptops and facilitators, digital learning material is also provided (15) • Adobe Youth Voices ( AYV) : The program is currently running in Delhi, Bangalore,Hyderabadand Bhubaneshwarin partnership with Adobe by imparting training on use of multimedia tools by means of documentaries, movies, photo essays ,etc (65 sites in total)

  38. O3 - Our family, Our neighborhood, Our world: Students from different countries interact with students from India discussing the similarities and differences in their cultures, language etc

  39. Thank you

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