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Education Technology
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30 Dec 2016
Blog post
P.P. Sneha - Mapping Digital Humanities in IndiaIt gives us great pleasure to publish the second title of the CIS Papers series. This report by P.P. Sneha comes out of an extended research project supported by the Kusuma Trust. The study undertook a detailed mapping of digital practices …
30 Jun 2016
Blog post
Digital Humanities in India – Concluding ThoughtsAn extended survey of digital initiatives in arts and humanities practices in India was undertaken during the last year. Provocatively called 'mapping digital humanities in India', this enquiry began with the term 'digital humanities' …
25 Apr 2016
Blog post
Buying into the Aakash Dream - A Tablet’s Tale of Mass EducationThe low-cost Aakash tablet and its previous iterations in India have gone through several phases of technological changes and ideological experiments. Did the government prioritise familiarity and literacy about personal technological …
14 Feb 2016
Blog post
The Aakash Tablet and Technological Imaginaries of Mass Education in Contemporary India (Excerpt)In a recently published paper, Jahnavi Phalkey and Sumandro Chattapadhyay explore public initiatives in technological solutions for educating the poor and the disadvantaged in independent India. Here is an edited excerpt from the paper that …