India has sought academic collaboration with various US institutions to leverage the full potential of the education sector to meet the increasing needs of both the countries, particularly in the fields of information and technology.
‘Our academic institutions have been slow to leverage the potential of technology for education. Knowledge networks that link research in the grand challenges of the world have also been slow to develop,’ Minister of India for human resources development, M Pallam Raju said Monday.
Raju is leading a delegation of academicians and officials for the annual India-US Education Dialogue. The US delegation include Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Tara Sonenshine, and the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake.
In his address, Raju said the digital world is challenging the traditional lecture-driven teaching in universities.
‘With open content and open-access, we are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university, a concept pioneered by Charles West, as an accessible, empowering, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms ushering the collaborative future of higher education,’ the minister said. Reviewing the progress made so far, Sonenshine said the two countries have moved from strength to strength after a model of co-operation between Indian community colleges and that of Montgomery Community college was founded.
‘Our academic institutions have been slow to leverage the potential of technology for education. Knowledge networks that link research in the grand challenges of the world have also been slow to develop,’ Minister of India for human resources development, M Pallam Raju said Monday.
Raju is leading a delegation of academicians and officials for the annual India-US Education Dialogue. The US delegation include Under Secretary for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs, Tara Sonenshine, and the Assistant Secretary of State for South and Central Asia, Robert Blake.
In his address, Raju said the digital world is challenging the traditional lecture-driven teaching in universities.
‘With open content and open-access, we are seeing the early emergence of a meta-university, a concept pioneered by Charles West, as an accessible, empowering, communally constructed framework of open materials and platforms ushering the collaborative future of higher education,’ the minister said. Reviewing the progress made so far, Sonenshine said the two countries have moved from strength to strength after a model of co-operation between Indian community colleges and that of Montgomery Community college was founded.