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There is a verse that reads, “let the wise listen and add to their learning.” The solution-oriented Design Thinking for… Read More →

कोविड-19 के कारण प्रदेश में ऑनलाइन कक्षाएं संचालित की जा रही है। शिक्षक कई तरह के सूचना एवं संचार प्रौद्योगिकी… Read More →

The Integrated approach to Technology in Education (ITE) is an initiative of the Tata Trusts incubated in the Centre for… Read More →

The world is facing extraordinary circumstances due to the pandemic and so are the education systems across the world. Online… Read More →

इस सवाल से हम सब जूझ रहे है कि जब स्कूल तक पहुचना सम्भव न हो तब भी सिखने–सिखाने को… Read More →

  For all of you who are gearing up to teach online, you must be wondering how technology is going… Read More →

The second Design thinking workshop was held in Raipur, Chhattisgarh from 27 to 29 January 2020. This workshop was primarily… Read More →

We are proud to announce the launch of CLIx Open Educational Resources (OER) website (clixoer.tiss.edu) on 6th December 2019.Dr. Shalini Bharat,… Read More →

On 27th September SCERT, Telangana and TISS launched the CLIx Open Educational Resources (OER) web portal at the Indira Priyadarshini… Read More →

How does design thinking for education bring out creative learning experience? – a question that I had been chasing for… Read More →

Working in CLIx as an assistant media producer has helped me understand the work and commitment it takes to bring… Read More →

The best part of my job is that I get to travel and visit schools in different parts of the… Read More →

CLIx took its academic team to schools in Telangana to observe classroom practices. At Manchal Government School, students were eager… Read More →

As a researcher and a curriculum developer, I have always found it very useful to visit schools and talk to… Read More →

Over the last two years, I have visited many schools in Telangana in urban, rural and even remote locations to… Read More →

The visit to four Telangana schools in which a few teachers were trained by CLIx team was an enthralling experience…. Read More →

The school is a complex microcosm with many dynamics at play. From the Head Master (HM) to the teachers to… Read More →

The official plan of the CLIx English team was to visit the experimental schools in Mizoram to conduct listening and… Read More →

On a warm Sunday morning, the much anticipated state-level science fair at the Telangana State Residential School (Girls), Ensanpally, Siddipet, … Read More →

The 16th GLOBELICS International Conference 2018 was hosted by Science and Technology Policy Research Institute of the Council for Scientific… Read More →

Through CLIx, we train teachers in the methods to maintain computer labs. During this work, I wondered why we train… Read More →

The CLIx mathematics team conducted a Learning Outcome (LO) study to assess the efficacy of its Geometric Reasoning (GR) module… Read More →

CLIx facilitated the student–teacher training workshop held at Kapila Khandelval College of Education (KKCE) on 5 October 2018. This workshop… Read More →

We reached Singapore on 23rd September to participate in an international conference . This was the 8th annual International   Conference… Read More →

The Tech4Transformation event was organised by the Tata Trusts on 12 September 2018 to celebrate its 126th year of inception…. Read More →

CLIx is now a part of the conversation with many TISS campuses. What the Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) project was… Read More →

The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), New Delhi, organised a five-day certificate training programme on ‘data analysis, visualisation and… Read More →

When the idea of an international symposium was first mooted, there was excitement and also niggling apprehension. Would we at… Read More →

SCERT, Raipur and TISS Mumbai conducted a 5-day Open Educational Resources (OER) Curation workshop at SCERT, Raipur, from 4 to… Read More →

As Clive Humby, (British mathematician) says, ‘Data is the new oil. It’s valuable, but if unrefined, it cannot really be… Read More →

The CLIx team and developers put in great efforts to create the CLIx platform 2018, gathering feedback and experiences from… Read More →

For capacity building of resource group of CLIx program in the state one day introductory workshop were held on 16,17… Read More →

‘Have I learnt to speak fluently?’ ‘Can I speak accurately?’ — attempting to answer some of these questions for assessing… Read More →

Moving from the green hills of Mizoram, the next stop in the TPD journey of 2018 is the desert land:… Read More →

For many years, Rajasthan has been facing the issue of unemployment. While the schools provide formal education, neither the schools… Read More →

Mizoram was the first state that CLIx went to in 2016 with Teacher Trainings. It was only right that we… Read More →

As CLIx enters its fourth year, proudly carrying the badge of UNESCO laureate, the focus is on the quality, scalability… Read More →

What happens when a crowd of over a 100 meet for a week? What if they are work colleagues from… Read More →

The Mobile Learning Week 2018 -Skills for a Connected World (#MLW2018), organised by UNESCO in Paris from 26 to 30… Read More →

Ajay and I landed in Helsinki on the night of 11 March with the objective of understanding Finland’s education system… Read More →

 The CLIx Team has been working hard from the inception of the initiative on 2 February 2015. When we look… Read More →

Recast your current problems into proactive goals.  This advice from Suze Orman was the motto of the three-day TPD Review… Read More →

Feedback is a gift. Ideas are the currency of our next success. Let people see you value both feedback and… Read More →

The All-India Children’s Educational Audio Video Festival (AICEAVF) aims to promote creative expression among educational media professionals, teacher educators, teachers… Read More →

The CLIx Research Team is conducting the Midline-2 survey in Rajasthan from 14 February 2018. The survey will covera sample… Read More →

The Kuthadakalan village school is located about 20 kilometres from Jaipur city. I’ve seen this school through three seasons. The… Read More →

Neil Selwyn (2002) criticizes education technology research for being characterized by “an excessive technological optimism bordering on technophillia.” In order to… Read More →

In this blog, we share our experience of the learning festival ‘Katral Thiruvizha’ organised by the Azim Premji Foundation in… Read More →

We attended the epiSTEME7 conference organised by the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education, Mumbai, to present a poster titled:… Read More →

An action research project needs time and space to present our insights to the world in various fora such as… Read More →

The epiSTEME series of biennial conferences is a series of international conferences to review research on Science, Technology and Mathematics… Read More →

We techies at CLIx (Satej, Rachana, Kedar and I) decided to be Santas to the researchers and give them Sirohi… Read More →

  On 27 November 2017, nine science teachers from different schools of Jaipur district of Rajasthan participated in a teacher… Read More →

This blog outlines the tech team’s field visit to Jaipur from 4 to 9 December 2017. Our team of four… Read More →

What are the ways to learn science? We read and write, of course! Sometimes we come across interesting phenomena such… Read More →

This blog describes the highlights of the CLIx mathematics TPD workshop conducted from 6 to 8 November 2017 in Warangal… Read More →

In this blog, we describe the activities that mathematics teachers from Navodaya Vidyalaya Samiti engaged in during the face-to-faceworkshop held… Read More →

  What happens when a person who speaks only English and Hindi goes to rollout CLIx modules in a school… Read More →

Are stories the best medium for values education? What are the other interesting ways to present values? What are the… Read More →

While learning through computers is widely considered to promote an individualistic classroom culture where students learn from devices on their… Read More →

Exposing students to media is a direct consequence of integrating technology into their classroom. The production team at CLIx works… Read More →

Abdul Latif Jameel-World Education Lab (J-WEL) has been setup at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to spark ‘a global… Read More →

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) organised the Jameel World Education Lab (J-WEL) event from 9–12 October 2017 at the McGovern… Read More →

The three-day face-to-face training for physical science teachers was conducted in Rangareddy at two centres, Masab Tank and Vikarabad, from… Read More →

Two members of the CLIx maths team visited two schools in Jaipur district on 22 September 2017 for rollout observation… Read More →

I visited Mizoram, the land of hills, yet again in 2–14 October 2017— this time to continue support for student… Read More →

To enable teachers to effectively implement the CLIx science modules in schools, a one-day training programme was organised in Sirohi,… Read More →

It was a one-day training programme for the CLIx science modules and the online teachers’ course (RTICT). Because we were… Read More →

I found myself in the ‘City of Nawabs’ this September! We went to this beautiful historical city to train teachers… Read More →

A two-day training in CLIx English modules was held for the personnel of Pratham InfoTech Sanchar Ltd on 21–22 September… Read More →

Mathematics teacher professional development (TPD) workshops were conducted in Karimnagar district of Telangana from 6 to 8 September and then… Read More →

A three-day Science workshop was conducted in Telangana state in four spells from 6th to 16th September 2017. Teachers of… Read More →

I have come across many kinds of teacher trainings. But the CLIx training was quite different from the rest. It… Read More →

“One child, one book, one pen and one teacher can change the world” – Malala Yousafzai. We started September 2017… Read More →

Leaving behind the Mumbai monsoon, we headed straight into the scorching heat of Jaipur to support the field team to… Read More →

A three-day mathematics teachers’ workshop was organized in Sirohi, Rajasthan, from 9 to 11 August 2017. The workshop introduced teachers… Read More →

Even at very short notice, the science team was ready for the science teachers workshop held in Mizoram on 9… Read More →

To address some of the needs and concerns raised by teachers, the English Team spent months ideating and developing new… Read More →

In the midst of the summer break, our army of implementation, technical and hardware representatives inaugurated the ‘most prestigious’ school… Read More →

SCERT conducted a four-day in-house workshop on Curriculum Mapping and open educational resources (OER) from 27 June to 30 June… Read More →

A three-day workshop for science teachers in SCERT, Raipur, was conducted from 14 to 16 July 2017. The objective of… Read More →

Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx) is an action research project. In action research, data and research inform practice in the field,… Read More →

Cluster-level training was held at Karimnagar, Warangal and Ranga Reddy during 19–29 June 2017. A total of 1,552 teachers were… Read More →

No teacher, preacher, parent, friend Or wise man can decide What’s right for you—just listen to The voice that speaks… Read More →

It was about four months ago that Sujata and I spotted a call for papers (CfP) for the Materials Development… Read More →

The CLIx English team got an opportunity to talk about their field experience of developing and implementing the CLIx English… Read More →

Are you a teacher? A parent? A student? Ever been in one of these roles? If yes, then you must… Read More →

For the teachers participating in the CLIx programme in Jaipur, Rajasthan, a cluster-level two-day orientation was held from 12 May… Read More →

The six-week internship was a compulsory part of my curriculum at the Media and Cultural Studies at Tata Institute of… Read More →

The CLIx Postgraduate Certificate Programme in Reflective Teaching in ICT for in-service teachers in elementary and secondary schools has a… Read More →

It all began with a chance conversation on a trip to King’s College, London (KCL) in May 2016, when Prof… Read More →

On 2–3 May 2017, Deepak Verma, my colleague from Eklavya and Science team lead, CLIx, and I met the teachers… Read More →

A midline study for assessing the impact of CLIx intervention in the academic year 2016–17 was recently undertaken in Chhattisgarh,… Read More →

Schools drenched in the downpour, people walking through a mist in the evening, classrooms full of guileless Mizo boys and… Read More →

Summer took a break in Mizoram when dark clouds drifted over the state to give it cooler days. With lightning,… Read More →

The CLIx Mathematics team conducted a trial of its first lesson at the BMC Transit Camp School in Dharavi. Dharavi… Read More →

The teacher educator workshop was conducted from 30 March 2017 to 3 April 2017 at IASE,  Hyderabad. It was the… Read More →

It’s a bright, sunny day in the hills as I wind my way towards Ramhlun (South) High School. I’m looking… Read More →

I recently joined the Eklavya team in conducting a teacher training workshop at Hajipur, Vaishali, Bihar. I worked with experienced… Read More →

In September 2016, CLIx organised the CLIx Open Online/Ongoing Lab workshop to introduce implementation field teams to the CLIx platform…. Read More →