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The Vision of the 'Virtual School' Program of the Noolaham Foundation is to create open, free, accessible, self-organizing virtual learning environments for the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking students and educators.
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Combining formal education with alternative forms of education, Pallikoodam aims to create a virtual platform that supports and empowers students at the grass-roots level within the Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka and promote education as an avenue to strengthen the democratic foundations of society.
  
  
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The aim of the project is to create open, free, accessible, self-organizing virtual learning environments for the Sri Lankan Tamil speaking to students and educators.  The project will be divided into several phases each phase building on the previous and reaching out to more people.  The technical complexity, capability and costs will also increase.
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* Create open, free, accessible, self-organizing virtual learning environments that could benefit students and educators, especially those from the marginal sections of our communities
  
The first phase of the project is to immediately bring mostly text based educational resources to online and make it accessible to students.  This phase involves an outreach and engagement phase to inform the students of how to use the resources.
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* Bring together students and instructors from the different regions to a common virtual space and build communities of learners and teachers
  
The second phase is to build a more comprehensive virtual learning environment or classroom.  Students will be able to supplement or completely learn courses online.  Video lectures, self – assessment tools, collaboration tools and online based educational tools such as simulations are some key features of such a learning environment.
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* Encourage learning through discussion, participation and team work
  
The third phase is to build a robust self-sustaining online social learning community where student to student, student to teacher, teacher to teacher interactions will happen seamlessly. The diaspora can co-learn and collaborate with students and teachers in Sri Lanka.
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* Stress the importance of vocational education and alternative forms of education alongside formal education
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* Highlight the importance of education for the creation of a progressive society

Latest revision as of 04:55, 5 March 2014

Mision

Combining formal education with alternative forms of education, Pallikoodam aims to create a virtual platform that supports and empowers students at the grass-roots level within the Tamil speaking communities in Sri Lanka and promote education as an avenue to strengthen the democratic foundations of society.


Objectives

  • Create open, free, accessible, self-organizing virtual learning environments that could benefit students and educators, especially those from the marginal sections of our communities
  • Bring together students and instructors from the different regions to a common virtual space and build communities of learners and teachers
  • Encourage learning through discussion, participation and team work
  • Stress the importance of vocational education and alternative forms of education alongside formal education
  • Highlight the importance of education for the creation of a progressive society