Mysuru: Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement (SVYM), Mysuru, in collaboration with certain key stakeholders such as Government, Academia and Non-Profit Organisations, has organised a two-day National Conference on ‘Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) in Education – Perspectives, Practices and Possibilities’ on May 11 and 12 at Senate Hall, University of Mysore, Manasagangothri here.

The objectives of the conference is to promote universal access to appropriate ICTs for enhancing quality of school education, to create a platform for sharing existing and emerging models of ICT in education, to create a forum for interaction among representatives of Government, educational professionals, world bodies and voluntary associations to enable understanding of mutual issues and perspectives related to ICT in education.

Sessions on themes such as ICT and Learning in Schools, ICT and Teacher Education, ICT and School Administration, Leveraging experiences from other fields (Higher Education) and Policy Environment and Way Forward will be held which include plenary talks, break-away groups and presentations of people from diverse backgrounds.

Also, research papers are invited from teachers, teacher educators, practitioners, researchers and policy makers to be presented at the conference.

The Meet is open for students, teachers, policy makers and others working in the domain of school education. For registration, contact H.N. Ramesh on Mob: 94804-51100 or Chandrakala on Mob: 89713-66443.