NEP 2020: CBSE and IIT Gandhinagar to launch 30-30 Eklavya series– online education programme

The interactive series will cover the curriculum with interesting real-world examples and stories.

The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the Centre for Creative Learning (CCL) at the Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar (IITGN) have joined hands to launch 30-30 Eklavya, an online interactive education programme to decode effective implementation of the National Education Policy (NEP) across the schools.

Eklavya series intends to take forward the goal of the National Education Policy (NEP), which emphasises holistic, experiential, and multidisciplinary education over rote learning. The weekly series aims to nurture creativity, out-of-box thinking, conceptual understanding, interdisciplinary education, problem-solving skills, and Learning How to Learn among school students. Each live episode will cover the curriculum with interesting real-world examples and stories.

The episodes will be a combination of Science and Math concepts. An episode about Force will explain the forces that act on a drop of water coming out of a sprinkler and whether it goes in a spiral or a parabolic path. Another episode will discuss discovering Pi in straight lines and how you can find this miraculous number in the leaves on a footpath. The series would also cover other topics like electricity and magnetism, sound, number systems and basic arithmetic operations, heat, evolution and cell biology, machines and friction, optics, pressure, and so on.

The Eklavya series will also contain:
● Numerous hands-on activities, projects, models, which help in conceptual understanding of difficult topics
● PISA-based thought-provoking questions, assignments that promote out-of-box creative thinking
● Inspiring DIY project videos using local material to relate curriculum to life

Highlighting the vision behind 30-30 Eklavya, Prof Manish Jain, Head of CCL, IITGN, said: “The National Education Policy 2020 envisions a drastic and much-needed reform in our education system. Implementing it, however, might seem intimidating for school teachers and administrators. This is the gap that CBSE and IITGN are trying to fill with the Eklavya series: to demystify NEP and showcase how to implement it across the schools effectively. In that light, it will be beneficial for our teachers and students to register and participate in this program.”

The 30-30 Eklavya series is scheduled to start on September 26, 2021 and run every Sunday from 4 to 5 pm, on CCL’s YouTube channel.

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