The quality of education is influenced by the skills of teachers - “change starts with the great teachers”. Thus, this project focuses on producing a cadre of digitally competent teachers in two universities, Tribhuvan University and Nepal Open University, both of which have a remarkable role in Nepal by developing a new MA programme in digital pedagogy for 21st century.
Also the project will develop a modular and standalone guidance and counselling course for school teachers (in-service teachers) in order to help girls and boys from disadvantaged communities remain in school and accelerate their educational performance.
As digitalization of education is seen as an opportunity of the present and the future, teachers of all levels of education need to have competences to use technology in their work and develop their pedagogy accordingly. Therefore, teacher training and teacher educators must be equipped with the required capacities first. The universities are committed to the long-term development of digital infrastructure, ODL and to developing the necessary human capacity required to exploit them.