Government Of Rajasthan Team up With Cisco To Enable Digital Learning

The Education Department under the Government of Rajasthan announces a unique initiative to promote digital learning across the state using virtual digital rooms through Cisco’s Connected Learning solution. This initiative aims to enhance the quality of education through digital learning for academia to connect, collaborate, create, and share content across 12 centres of State Institute for Education Management And Training (SIEMAT) in the state. The initiative was inaugurated by the Hon. Chief Minister of Rajasthan, Smt. Vasundhara Raje on the occasion of Teachers' Day, in an interaction with educators and students across all 12 SIEMAT facilities live – via the Connected Learning setup.

With this collaboration Cisco, along with the Government of Rajasthan, strengthens the foundation of next generation education to empower teachers as well as students through innovative approaches to pedagogy and learning, supports the teachers’ professional development, and provides them with tools to implement and manage training. Under this association, Cisco and SIEMAT have committed to 50,000 man-hours of training annually through its virtual digital classrooms.

Cisco has partnered with the Govt. of Rajasthan to establish Digital Learning Solution Rooms (DLSRs) which will deploy virtual digital classrooms across 12 institutes as part of the government’s on-going social initiatives program locations in Rajasthan.

Government of Rajasthan has partnered with Cisco on various initiatives to digitize the state, which includes Jaipur deploying cutting edge technology as a lighthouse city for sustainable urban development, and the establishment of JDA-Cisco Global Centre Of Excellence (GCoE) to help accelerate local innovation and enable the start-ups in Rajasthan to compete on a global level

“Innovative partnerships such as this are essential if we are to transform the education system in the state of Rajasthan and prepare students to succeed in a digitized economy.