Kathmandu - EdChange Nepal also celebrated Digital Learning Day 2023 in Nepal. With the aim of encouraging and promoting digital learning and practice, Digital Learning Day was celebrated by organizing a program on 'Empowering the Future through Digital Learning' on Thursday.
The program
which was started under the chairmanship of President of EdChange Nepal; Dr. Rajeshwori
Malla had the chief guest of the event as the MP and leader of Nepali Congress
NP Saud. Former Minister of Science and Technology; Ganesh Shah, Vice
Chancellor of Open University; Prof. Dr. Silu Manandhar Bajracharya and Padam
Shahi, member of Sudurpaschim Pradesh Assembly, were present as the special
guest.
President of
PABSON; DK Dhungana, Co-President of PABS; Subash Neupane, Dean of Kathmandu
University School of Education; Prof. Dr. Bal Chandra Luitel, Deputy Secretary
of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology; Subash Dhakal, Director
of Education and Human Resource Development Center; Govinda Prasad Aryal and
other personalities from the education sector were present to make the program
a grand success.
In the
program held at Hotel Himalaya, Kupandole, various experts presented working
papers, panel sessions and idea pitching.
The speakers
in the program emphasized on digital learning, literacy and building the capacity
of teachers.
Welcoming
the participants in the program, founder of EdChange Nepal; Mr. Vikesh Maharjan
said that 'EdChange Nepal' has been established to promote qualitative and
digital education.
Stating that
the state should come forward for digital education, NP Saud, the chief guest
of the program, promised to take initiative in parliament and government for improving
the condition of digital education.
Likewise, DK
Dhungana; President of Pabson, said that digital education has become a vital
part of education.
Speaking at
the event, former minister Ganesh Shah emphasized that the government should
invest in education. "Country will be prosperous only if investment is
made in education," he said. Emphasis should be placed on developing the
ecosystem of digital education.'
Dean of
Kathmandu University; Prof. Dr. Balchandra Luitel, who was the main speaker in
the program informed that AI has become more refined as well as creative and
problem-oriented learning should be done to uplift the education system.
Assistant
Professor of Nepal Open University; Dr. Bhojraj Ghimire presented his work
paper on the efforts, challenges, works to be done and shortages in digital
education.
A panel
discussion was also held in the program. As speakers in the session, Deputy
Secretary of the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology; Subash Dhakal,
Director of Education and Human Resource Center; Gobinda Prasad Aryal, Head of
Education Branch of UNESCO Nepal; Dr. Dhurva Raj Regmi, Pabson Co-Chairman;
Subash Neupane and Deputy Mayor of Nagarjuna Municipality; Sushila Adhikari
were present for the panel discussion.
The session
was conducted and facilitated by Hempal Shrestha, co-founder of ICT Foundation
Nepal and a knowledge management expert.
In the panel
discussion session, Deputy Secretary Dhakal emphasized that everyone should
cooperate for digital learning. He says that the system should be centralized
and the content should be localized.
Similarly,
another speaker, Gobinda Aryal, while giving information about the work done by
the center, admitted that due to various reasons, it was not able to do as much
work as it should have been doing in the field of digital learning.
Similarly,
Dr. Dhurva Raj Regmi informed that there is a gap in learning and teaching
capacity in remote areas of Nepal.
Similarly,
while speaking in the session, Subash Neupane of Pabson said that education
without digitalization cannot be imagined. Similarly, Deputy Mayor Adhikari
said that for digital learning, everyone should move forward with the spirit of
co-operation, co-ordination and co-existence.
In the
program, teachers presented new ideas about teaching practices.
Neema
Academy, Nepal Telecommunication Authority, Nepal College of Information
Technology, Mentor Lab, Lord Buddha Education Foundation, Upgrad, Codingal,
World Vision, Save the Children, Child Fund, Child SafeNet, Apex Life School, N-PABSON,
Living with ICT, ICT Foundation Nepal participated in the program which was organized
by EdChange Nepal. The program was organized in collaboration between Kathmandu
University and Nepal Open University.