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To integrate AI Curriculum in 200 schools in India, CBSE ties up with IBM

July 19, 2020
  • The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) announced that the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the high school curriculum for Grade XI and XII for the current academic year (2020 – 2021) has been developed in collaboration with IBM.
  • The curriculum is part of CBSE’s Social Empowerment through Work Education and Action (SEWA) program.
  • The initiative is aimed at helping students to learn AI skills for social good.
  • This curriculum will be launched in around 200 schools across Delhi-NCR, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Odisha, Kerala, West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan and Punjab (13 states of India)

To help teachers to run online classes, Google partners with CBSE

July 16, 2020
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  • Google announced that it is partnering with CBSE, an Indian schooling body, to help 1mn teachers run online classes by year end.
  • Google will help teachers from 22,000 schools across India to conduct classes online through tools such as YouTube, Google Classrooms, and GSuite.
  • These tools will be available in eight Indian languages including Hindi & Gujarati.

Intel and CBSE tie hands to digitally empower 1 lakh students with AI

March 9, 2020
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Tech giant Intel and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) inked a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to digitally empower nearly one lakh students with Artificial Intelligence (AI) integration in India’s education system. Initiatives include the roll-out of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) curriculum framework for grades VIII, IX and X for 22,000 schools, with the target to empower one lakh students within 2020.

CBSE starts an Exam center locator app “CBSE ECL”

February 27, 2020
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The Central Board of Secondary Education has started an Exam center locator app “CBSE ECL” as well as an Online Exam Center Management System “OECMS”. The “CBSE ECL” is a mobile application which aids the students to locate their examination center and see the distance between current location and examination center.