Thursday, November 21, 2013

Guru.lk – Digital Educational Platform – learn anywhere anytime

Guru will revolutionize the distance education in Sri Lanka

Guru.lk - learn anywhere anytime
Children go online for various reasons, but most of the time those reasons do not add any value for those who go online. But they can’t be blamed for just wasting time, money and international bandwidth as they are digital consumers with very little choice.  

Guru.lk has been launched as a solution to the dearth of enriching educational online content here in Sri Lanka. System is open for anyone who wants to learn and users can pay for the services they consume through Dialog “Add to Bill”, eZ Cash or Credit Cards.

Current focus is on Ordinary Level (O/L) examination and students can register for following courses by just visiting www.guru.lk or sending a SMS with course code to 445.

Code
Subject
Medium Conducted
Daily Rental
Monthly Rental
33000
Spin Bowling by Rangana Herath
Sinhala/English
LKR 04.00
LKR 240.00
11001
O/L Science Revision
Sinhala
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11002
O/L Maths Revision
Sinhala
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11003
O/L English Revision
English
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11004
O/L Art
Sinhala
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11005
O/L Sinhala
Sinhala
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11006
O/L History
Sinhala
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11007
O/L Tamil
Tamil
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11008
O/L Business & Accounting Studies Revision
Sinhala
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11009
O/L History Revision
Sinhala
LKR 03.00
LKR 100.00
11010
O/L IT Fitness Test
English
One-time LKR 50.00


-Sameera.

Thursday, November 7, 2013

Nenasa TV Launches Two New Educational Channels


Nenasa TV, the satellite based television channel developed to bridge the education gap between urban and rural Sri Lanka took a bold new leap today with the launch of two channels covering Grade 10 and Grade 11 curriculum respectively in the presence of Hon. President Mahinda Rajapaksa at the Tangalle Ruhunu Wijayaba National School. Based upon the content developed by the National Institute of Education (NIE) under the direction of the  Ministry of Education (MoE) which has so far connected over 2000 schools, “Nenasa” will provide these new channels initially to 1000 “Mahindodaya” schools.


The Nenasa programme was developed under the Mahinda Chinthanaya education plan to address the disparity of access to knowledge between urban and rural Sri Lanka through ICT (Information Communication Technology). Dialog Television, a satellite-based broadcaster, is a subsidiary of Dialog Axiata.  A satellite based system has almost no geographical limitations to deliver crystal clear content from the heavens, making it an ideal medium to deliver distance learning across the island.

Launched in 2009, the programme has so far gone on to connect over 2000 schools and future plans will encompass many more schools.


The state of the art satellite based distance education programme is operated by the Ministry of Education, while a high quality telecast edition of the national education curriculum for Ordinary Level students is developed by the National Institute of Education (NIE). The content is currently developed in Sinhala medium. The developed curriculum is transmitted to the rural school network via Dialog Television.