FITIS collaborates with education professionals at webinar on accelerating digital education

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Federation of Information Technology Industry Sri Lanka (FITIS) is the apex body for ICT industry in

H.U. Premathilake Additional Secretary (Education Quality Development) Ministry of Education

Prof. K.P. Hewagamage Director University of Colombo School of Computing

Prof. Gihan Dias Vice Chairman – FITIS Professor University of Moratuwa

Niel Gunadasa Director (Data Management and ICT) Ministry of Education

Dr. Harsha Alles Chairman Gateway Group of Organisations

Upul Dassanayaka Director/CEO School of Foreign Trade and Export Strategy Immediate Past President FITIS Education and Training Chapter

association with education and higher education professionals are hosting a webinar on ‘Accelerating Digital Education in the Digital Normal in Sinhala Medium’ on Saturday, 18 July, 4 p.m. onwards Sri Lankan time.

The webinar will be presented by Ministry of Education Additional Secretary (Education Quality Development) H.U. Premathilake, University of Colombo School of Computing Director Prof. K.P. Hewagamage, University of Moratuwa Professor and FITIS Vice Chairman Prof. Gihan Dias, Ministry of Education Director of Education (Data Management and ICT) G.M. Niel Gunadasa, Gateway Groups of Organizations Chairman Dr. Harsha Alles, and moderated by FITIS Education and Training Chapter Immediate Past President and School of Foreign Trade and Export Strategy Director/CEO Upul Dassanayake.

The webinar will be targeted for academicd, parents, students who are pursuing higher and secondary level studies, university students and professional programs.

As the COVID-19 disease outbreak spread, the number of countries that started closing schools and universities increased rapidly. As digital transformation accelerates, the need for talent and tools to make it happen increases, and tools require training. There is also a clear need to get people trained in these many areas where we’re now seeing more online solutions being used, such as telework. Whereas, this webinar will mainly deliberate in Sinhala on how to accelerate education by building remote or online learning programs and how currently educational institutions managing the crisis in Sri Lanka.

This webinar is to bring discussion about the educational policy of the government and future direction in the digital normal, solutions and digital infrastructure needed for the future digital learning and security aspects of digital education, online education from global perspective/learning lessons from international digital education systems, challenges of digital education and how digital education can be used to improve skills of students and effectiveness and quality of digital education.

Registrations are open now to join on Accelerating Digital Education in The Digital Normal in Sinhala medium webinar. For more details please email [email protected] or register via http://tiny.cc/w777rz.