Kerala: Higher education department to promote digital LMS in colleges

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The higher Education department is on a mission to pivot on the devastating Covid-19 pandemic to recast the way academic transaction and evaluation of students andteacherstakes place in higher education institutions in the state.

As a first step towards ushering in change in the sector, the government has taken an in-principle decision to encourage the use of customised and computer-basedLearning Management System(LMS) in all higher education institutions. At least 300 colleges, irrespective of the government/aided distinction, would soon be given access to the computer-based Learning

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system that would hopefully stave off the adverse impact of rote learning system entrenched in the academic discourse.

Sources said the higher education council has agreed to take forward the initiative to make customised LMS available to at least 300 select colleges on a pilot basis. It would also ramp up the teacher training process to help college/ university faculties to learn how to use thedigitalmedium for mentoring students.