Launches ‘Oxford Inspire’ – a novel blended studying answer
NEW DELHI, Sept. 19, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Celebrating its 110 years in India, Oxford University Press (OUP), a division of the celebrated University of Oxford, introduced the launch of its new suite of blended studying options—OXFORD INSPIRE. Catering to college students of grades 1 to eight, Oxford Inspire is considered one of India’s first competency-based blended studying options with ‘learner success’ at its core. It is designed to encourage learners to amass data, talents, and abilities by way of a wide range of experiences in a fascinating and versatile setting and encourage lecturers to have interaction innovatively with learners by combining sound pedagogy with new-age expertise.
Oxford Inspire will provide print and digital courseware for English, Mathematics, Environmental Studies and Science, mixing the 2 studying mediums by way of a novel study journey. The gamified platform will permit better ranges of scholar engagement and drive a deeper understanding of core ideas. Oxford Inspire may even provide a Reading Portal, a multilingual digital library with unique graded tales on Indian and International themes. The goal of the Reading Portal is to encourage learners to learn for pleasure, hone their data of India, and empower them to grow to be unbiased readers.
Oxford Inspire’s three basic pillars, competency-based development, versatile studying setting and learner engagement are essential to creating assured, linked, actively concerned and lifelong learners. Aligned with the brand new National Education Policy’s (NEP 2020) priorities, these pillars will allow lecture rooms to shift from conventional rote studying strategies to holistic concept-based studying.
i. Competency-based development focuses on a sound grasp of core ideas with a extra sensible method to real-world and steady evaluation for studying progress;
ii. A versatile studying setting encourages steady studying with anytime, anyplace entry;
iii. A excessive diploma of learner engagement by way of gamified assessments with motivational components like rewards, class leaderboards and ‘unlocking’ of ranges and challenges as learners progress. Digital studying buddies, based mostly on endangered animals hailing from totally different corners of the Indian subcontinent, accompany college students on their studying journey and in addition promote a better understanding of subjects equivalent to local weather change, conservation, forest and wildlife safety.
On her go to to have fun 110 years of OUP in India, Ms. Fathima Dada, MD Education, Oxford University Press, commented, “The Indian education sector is on a transformational journey which has been accelerated by innovation in digital technologies and bolstered by the Government’s prioritizing the sector. Oxford University Press has a long and prestigious history in India and has gained recognition and respect for its distinguished scholarly works and academic publishing. From publishing its first book in 1912 to currently publishing 4000+ new resources a year, OUP has upheld the highest editorial and publishing standards. We are on our mission to widen students’ access to our educational resources.”
Ms. Dada additional mentioned, “Edtech and digital learning has brought a revolutionary change in the way Indians receive their education. OUP has always been the front runner in education and research and recognises the critical role that technology can play in making a breakthrough in the world of knowledge and learning. Our new product, Oxford Inspire supports our intention to meet the ever-changing needs of Indian students for holistic learning by offering schoolbooks and companion digital solutions such as videos, question banks, quizzes etc.”
Sumanta Datta, Managing Director, Oxford University Press India, added, “We remain committed to developing relevant, high-quality academic and scholarly content, and making it available in print and digital forms. The foundation of Oxford Inspire resonates with the approach recommended by NEP 2020 and focuses on concept-based, cross-disciplinary education, imparted through engaging theme and activity-based blended learning modules. We believe that the students and teachers will appreciate Oxford Inspire’s innovative formats to improve conceptual learning and access to quality content.”
About Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is a division of the University of Oxford. It additional affirms the University’s goal of excellence in analysis, scholarship, and schooling by publishing worldwide.
OUP is among the world’s largest college presses with a large world presence. It publishes in many nations, in greater than 40 languages, and in a wide range of codecs – print and digital. OUP merchandise cowl an especially broad educational and academic spectrum, and it goals to make content material out there to customers in a format that fits them finest.
Celebrating 110 years – Trivia about Oxford University Press in India
i. OUP is credited with revolutionising publishing in India. Oxford books had been being offered in India a lot earlier than the Oxford University Press was arrange in India in 1912.
ii. The first educational ebook printed by the department was Dr. S. Radhakrishnan’s Essentials of Psychology in 1912. Dr. Radhakrishnan was then Assistant Professor at Presidency College, Madras (later turned the primary Vice President after which, the President of India).
iii. By 1915, the India department started to publish the Oxford School Atlas. The Atlas, presently in its thirty sixth version, has offered over 0.7 million copies because it was printed in January 2020 and is considered one of OUP’s most acknowledged merchandise. OUP publishes Atlases in Hindi and regional languages equivalent to Bengali, Marathi and Odia. It presently has 18 titles, together with Oxford Student Atlas for India and Atlases for Nepal and Sri Lanka.
iv. The Press’s first worker, Mangesh Rau, Chief Accountant, Madras, joined in 1912 and retired after 45-years of service.
v. One of OUP’s earliest books by Roy E.Hawkins, the Press’s longest serving supervisor, was My Early Life (1932) by Shri M.Okay. Gandhi, an adaptation of his authoritative autobiography for youthful readers.
vi. Jim Corbett’s Man Eaters of Kumaon, printed in 1945, stays one of many bestsellers for OUP
vii. Dr. Salim Ali’s Indian Hill Birds (1949) and his autobiography The Fall of a Sparrow (1985) inspired readers about birds in India.
viii. OUP printed about thirty books authored by Verrier Elwin, an anthropologist, beginning with The Agaria (1942). His autobiography, The Tribal World of Verrier Elwin, was printed posthumously (1964).
ix. Oxford English Dictionary began promoting in 1928 and is presently printed in 12 Indian languages, together with Hindi, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada, Telugu, and Urdu.
x. The early Nineteen Eighties noticed David Horsburgh and his son Nicholas start work on the Modern English sequence, which stays the Press’s longest operating and hottest English sequence. The English college ebook sequence caters to grade Okay-8.
xi. Girish Karnad, considered one of India’s foremost dramatists and actors, was related to OUP as an worker – a supervisor of the Madras department since 1963 and later as an creator. His ebook Three Plays signify three phases in the profession.
xii. Neil O’Brien, broadly acknowledged because the ‘Father of Quizzing’ in India, joined OUP as Calcutta Manager in 1965 and retired in 1996 as its chairman and managing director.
xiii. In 1987, OUP celebrated 75 years in India with the launch of Encyclopedia of Indian Natural History, in collaboration with Bombay Natural History Society
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