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What teachers say about the LifeLines- Education service:
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●   More than 25,000 academic query-answer sets in the Knowledge Database
     
●   State Wide implementation on a toll free platform at Rajasthan
     
●   Covering Primary, Upper Primary and High Schools
     
●   The repository encapsulates information on school curriculum, pedagogy, classroom management, school administration and policy.
     
     
 
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LifeLines Education

by bhairab — last modified 2010-05-05 11:42

 

  • The LifeLines - Education service was introduced to provide value-added and critical academic support to teachers in remote rural areas for their day to day academic transactions

  • Through the medium of the telephone, the service links up rural teachers with education experts whom they can access for their subject-matter and pedagogy-related queries; these experts may otherwise be located in different places and may not be as easily accessible

  • All the queries are answered within 24 - 48 hours

  • The service offers local language interaction in voice mode

  • The system also enables the teachers to add to and build on the FAQ information that has been gathered in the LifeLines Education system

  • It also facilitates direct access of curriculum related knowledge and queries by pupils

The areas of implementation of the LifeLines-Education service are:

In January 2008, LifeLines Education was launched by One World in collaboration with Vikramshila Resource Society and Quest Alliance. Initially the project was done on pilot basis at Bardhaman district in Monteshwar block at West Bengal. The LifeLines project was being implemented in 571 schools including High Schools, Junior Schools, Primary Schools and ICDS cEntres and covered 1800 teachers.

In September 2008, LifeLines service was initiated in Rajasthan in collaboration with Gvernment of Rajasthan and UNICEF. The LifeLines project was being implemented as a pilot in 11 blocks of Ddaipur district at Rajasthan. Overhere it was being implemented in 4691  primary and upper primary schools and benefitted 12000 teachers. After successfully implementing the pilot  project in Rajasthan. In January 2010, it was launched on a toll free platform to be implemented across all 33 districts in Rajasthan.


The types of queries addressed till date include some of the following:

  • Subjects at the elementary level like History, Geography, Physical Science, Maths, English, Hindi, General knowledge etc
  • Pedagogy
  • Class Room Management
  • Policy and Administration