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Learning Links Foundation. Inspire Innovate Learn. E nabling E xcellence. Dr. Anjlee Prakash. Challenges in Education. Focus on Quality. ICT Interventions - Focus on Quality. Leveraging ICT to Achieve and Enhance Quality in Education
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Learning Links Foundation Inspire Innovate Learn
Enabling Excellence Dr. Anjlee Prakash
ICT Interventions - Focus on Quality Leveraging ICT to Achieve and Enhance Quality in Education Integration of Technology in Educational Institutions • ICT Literacy / ICT integrated teaching / learning – pedagogy • MIS using ICT – management, finance & administration • Learning management systems / e-learning Learning’s should be used to bring changes in practice and be used by policy makers for facilitating policy
Importance of Standards and Competencies • Need to have quality standards and competencies • Institutions • Teachers • Students • Provides for institutional benchmarking • Motivates stakeholders towards a common goal • Provides clear learning guidelines • Aids assessment for all stakeholders
Education Quality Foundation of India (EQFI) MISSION To catalyze & enable paradigms of excellence in the Indian school education system by using standardized quality benchmarks. VISION • Create quality paradigms that lead to organizational excellence • Recognize institutions that exhibit performance excellence • Rekindle the consciousness of quality at the grassroots level • Full service approach to enable transformation of schools • Strong advocacy of quality to show the stakeholders that it is in their interest to change
EQFI: Theoretical Framework UNESCO framework for quality Malcolm Baldrige Quality Program Development of well researched & holistic Quality Standards Scottish Quality Program European Foundation for Quality Singapore Quality Program
Criteria for School Quality Education Excellence Student, Stakeholder Focus Leadership Workforce Focus Results Process Management
EQFI: Current Activities • Promotion of Quality through National Level Excellence Awards for Schools • Level based certification • Awards to winning schools • Whole School Review Program of schools based on the Quality Standards
EQFI will work in Research Advocacy Certification Forums Community Publications
To conclude "Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives.” - Willa A. Foster