Project ELearn.Punjab Role Model In Education Sector: Dr Umar Saif

LAHORE, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 01st Aug, 2017 ) : The eLearn.Punjab, a joint venture of the School Education Department and the Punjab Information Technology board (PITB) has become a role model for the national education sector.

Dr Umar Saif, founding vice chancellor, Information Technology University (ITU), chairman PITB and adviser to chief minister Punjab, said this during a review meeting of the project here at his office on Tuesday.

He said that eLearn was conceived in accordance with Chief Minister Shehbaz Sharif's vision to make available modern techniques and tools for improvement in learning and teaching process by adopting the technology for all and at all levels.

The PITB undertook eLearn to execute e-learning solutions in 47,856 public school, over 375,000 teachers and incredible 10 million students across the Punjab province, he added. The meeting was informed that the PCTB textbooks for grades 6 through 10 have been digitalised with 1,830 animations, 592 simulations, 13,047 topic-based videos under the supervision of experienced instructors, 2,000-minute audio and about 9 million trendy interactive hits.

Implementations have been done in 250 class-rooms, impacting 10,000 students and hundreds of teachers.