National e-learning platform a big leap for education equality, says minister

By THE NATION

 

 

The Education Ministry today unveiled its Digital Education Excellence Platform (DEEP), which gives students and teachers direct access to curriculums and modules via online classrooms.

 

 DEEP aims to give students in the most remote corners of the country access to the same resources as those in big cities, closing the gap in Thailand’s notoriously uneven education system.

 

On the new platform, students can also access Google and Microsoft learning tools via a single sign-on for the first time in Thailand.

 

Education Minister Nataphol Teepsuwan hailed DEEP as a fundamental tool to boost Thailand’s human capital to meet 21st-century needs, as he launched the platform at Wat Rajabopit School in Bangkok today. 

 

“DEEP is a critical stepping stone toward equality in education. This digital platform transforms a Thai education system that is relatively fixed, into one that is flexible and versatile. Students will now have access to a diverse set of curriculums or modules that are provided on DEEP, which opens endless opportunities for them to acquire additional knowledge in their unique areas of interest,” said Nataphol. 

 

The platform addresses issues of unequal education access expressed by students, teachers and the administrative body, he said. 

 

“Consequently, we will have a labour market that answers the private sector’s demands. It is important to reiterate that DEEP promotes a culture of lifelong learning, with hopes that everyone can and will ‘re-skill’ or ‘upskill’ themselves”, said Nataphol. 

 

“Building Thailand’s human capital is a necessity, education’s sole purpose is to ensure that all Thais have the opportunity and capability to pursue a career they dream of. … The future of our youth is the future of our country.” 

 

A ground-breaking feature of DEEP is to incorporate online classrooms as a new national standard for learning outside the classroom.

 

DEEP also allows the private sector to create content for the platform, which should generate a plethora of learning material for students to use.

 

In the initial stage, additional resources from public and private efforts on DEEP will solely aim at building English and digital literacy of Thai students, teachers and school administrators. 

 

Among the global companies who have partnered with the ministry to upload learning content to DEEP are Google, Microsoft, Cambridge Assessment English, Pearson, the British Council, IC3, ICDL, Arkki, along with more than 40 Rajabhat universities.

 

Source: https://www.nationthailand.com/news/30393797

 

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Oh dear sweet Jesus!

 

Just teach the children how to think!

23 minutes ago, snoop1130 said:

with hopes that everyone can and will ‘re-skill’ or ‘upskill’ themselves

Anyone that has ever been made unemployed in the UK and had to use the 'services' of the DWP or whatever they yearly change their name to, will understand the frustration of going into the office and the nutty staff asking them if they have thought about re-skilling themselves - usually suggesting that a factory worker re-skills to journalist, a computer boffin to a waiter, and dustman to aircraft pilot !

It's all useless if youth is demotivated, by the future being a CCP vassal with no rights whatsoever.

1 hour ago, snoop1130 said:

The Education Ministry today unveiled its Digital Education Excellence Platform (DEEP)

Oh please no .. not another acronym ..

Have they never heard of hitch hikers guide to the galaxy .. 

13 hours ago, herfiehandbag said:

Oh dear sweet Jesus!

 

Just teach the children how to think!

The latest stab in the dark....

form Thailand hub of acronyms.

the system that will make THAI prisoners the export  product to the world, right ?

 

while other countries have such a system for a decade of more, thailand just invented theirs

 

the future is the youth ?  not with the old ARMY guard with no education taking over & running the country into the ground, over & over & over ...

 

wasn't there a dude who had his own TELECOM company from the ground up but then had to flee or something ?  looooooooooooooooooool

Do the maps still put Thailand as the center of the universe?

Do these tools make students think analytically?

 

I'm guessing it is based on memorization and state centered.

 

21 hours ago, RichardColeman said:

Anyone that has ever been made unemployed in the UK and had to use the 'services' of the DWP or whatever they yearly change their name to, will understand the frustration of going into the office and the nutty staff asking them if they have thought about re-skilling themselves - usually suggesting that a factory worker re-skills to journalist, a computer boffin to a waiter, and dustman to aircraft pilot !

How is it possible to Up Skill or RE Skill so much Pond Life.

20 hours ago, Justgrazing said:

Have they never heard of hitch hikers guide to the galaxy ..

Wasn't the answer 41  ?

1 minute ago, johng said:

Wasn't the answer 41  ?

42 I believe was the answer but it's a long time ago now .. 

14 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

42 I believe was the answer but it's a long time ago now .. 

36 minutes ago, Justgrazing said:

42 I believe was the answer but it's a long time ago now .. 

Quite correct. I don't forget numbers, Number Six.