Glocal After School Submits Report on Online Learning Mechanism to Government; points out technical and non-technical aspects of online teaching
Glocal After School has submitted the Online Learning Virtual Conference Report to Hon. Giriraj Mani Pokharel, Minister, Ministry of Education, Science & Technology, after successful completion of the event on June 28 & June 29. The conference was organized with an aim is to build a platform for researchers, industry experts to share their novel ideas, experiences, impacts and results on the application of Online Learning practice. This conference was able to address the main prospects, the challenges and the change in concern within Online Learning covering both technical as well as the non-technical aspects of learning. The conference introduced some pioneer speakers from different field and provided a discussion forum about Online Learning, technology, the future of learning and the need of it in present context.
The conference was inaugurated by an opening session with Hon. Giriraj Mani Pokharel, Minister, Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Government of Nepal, moderated by Ms. Asish Thakur, Executive Director at Glocal Pvt. Ltd. For both the conference days, there were panel discussion on topics like - Embracing the Online Learning Eco-System, The Ins, The Outs and The Affordance to Online Learning and Maximizing Accessibility for Online Learning. Also, there was a side event on Adaptability of Online Learning delivered by Prof. Ujjwal K Chowdhury, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at Adamas University, India.
The conference had amazing panelists for this discussion who were policymakers, Ed-Tech initiatives, academia, and journalists to address various aspects of the Online Learning Mechanism. Finally, it was ended with a closing remark by Mr. Ana Prasad Neupane, Joint Secretary, Department of Education Ministry of Education, Science & Technology.
Many action points were discussed on the conference that could help in building the Online Learning Mechanism in the country, those points were therefore noted, assembled as report and successfully submitted to the Ministry with the expectations that these discussion and mechanism would be incorporated and helpful in preparing policies for Online Learning in our country. The Call for Action from the conference is as follows:
