A Professional Learning Community Approach for Teacher Development and OER creation - A toolkit/Establishing ICT infrastructure

The ICT infrastructure component has three elements – technology infrastructure in schools, at state and district levels as well the availability of an offline resource repository in the schools for supporting activities in the digital lab. Infrastructure in the schools: Providing adequate infrastructure that will allow access to students and teachers to create and learn using ICT is necessary. Desktop computers or laptops1 are preferred hardware as these will support resources to be developed using many applications. Only FOSS applications should be used, in line with National ICT Policy and National ICT Curriculum of NCERT. State and district level labs: In addition to adequate infrastructure in the school, the state should provide for adequate infrastructure for training at the state and district level.Having district level labs (in the DIETs and CTEs) will also allow the state to structure and implement training programmes, based on the needs and requirements throughout the academic year.