IIT Madras, TN govt to jointly improve learning experience of schoolkids

IIT Madras researchers will build a learning management system which will be deployed in newly built high-tech labs in 6,000 government schools to improve the quality of learning for 90 lakh students.

Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Madras researchers and the Department of School Education, Tamil Nadu, have joined hands to provide a richer learning experience to the school students by improvising and updating the existing digital learning platform to an assessment focused learning management system.  

IIT Madras to use AI to make assessments better 

Currently, the classroom education of Tamil Nadu’s school students is supplemented through a digital learning platform, i.e. Education Management Information System. IIT Madras researchers will use their artificial intelligence and data science expertise to come up with ways to improve the way assessments are conducted and framework for dissemination of educational material. 

Researchers will build on the Education Department’s recent efforts of a taxonomy based content mapping to build a wide range of tools. These include assessment creation, performance evaluation, including fraud detection, and various dashboards to monitor the learning progression of students, as well as school and district-level monitoring. 

The initiative will be led by faculty, students, project associates and channel partners of the Robert Bosch Centre of Data Science and AI (RBCDSAI), a centre housed at IIT Madras with a vision to expand and further the research, education and outreach activities in the areas of data science and artificial intelligence. 

Education is one of the key areas of research at RBCDSAI and the centre is currently pursuing a study that aims to determine successful delivery methods for ICT in education to improve learning outcomes. 

Initiative to be executed in 3 phases 

The entire initiative will be executed in three phases. The first phase will focus on content management for educational material and assessment, the second phase will work towards delivery and feedback for educational material and assessment and the third phase will lay emphasis on data analytics, dashboards and reporting system. 

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