How important is teacher agency for the success of any learning intervention? This vital question was examined through a case study on the award-winning Connected Learning Initiative (CLIx). The initiative, launched in 2015, was seeded by Tata Trusts with Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) as founding partners.
Titled ‘The Role of Teacher Agency: Challenges Implementing an ICT Initiative in Education’, the case study was written by Glenda S. Stump of MIT and Meera Chandran, Omkar Balli and Punam Medh from TISS’s Centre of Excellence in Teacher Education (CETE). A first-of-its-kind institution, the CETE was founded by the Tata Trusts and TISS to catalyse a transformation in teacher education, which is one of the most neglected areas of the country’s education sector.
The case study on CLIx featured in the Open Access Teaching Case Journal, (Volume 2, No 2, December 2024), which is a multi-disciplinary repository of real-world teaching cases for students and instructors. CLIx was launched as an initiative to integrate technology for active learning in Indian schools. It comprised information and communication technology (ICT) based modules in mathematics, science, communicative English and digital literacy for students of Grades 8, 9 and 10, and was successfully implemented in 461 schools with around 2,000 teachers in Chhattisgarh, Mizoram, Rajasthan and Telangana from 2015 to 2019. In line with the recommendation of the CLIx project team, the four states were interested in scaling up the innovation in Phase 2. However, they considered teachers’ willingness to adopt technology as a key challenge in its scale-up.
The full case study was published in December 2024 on https://ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/
