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Champawat
LMP Education Trust has donated “educational-kit” to Class I to V students on February 2010 at Haldwani and Champawat.
Allahabad
LMP Education Trust arranged with the management of Central School, New Cantt., Allahabad to disburse scholarships to meritorius students ranging from the 6th to 12th classes.
Prof M.M. Pant (Settler)
Prof. M.M. Pant has been promoting the ideation, development and delivery of educational products, processes and services for the next generation learning in the post Internet post WTO world. In keeping with the needs of the emerging Knowledge Economy, he is exploring the attributes of quality Knowledge products and the means of enhancing the productivity of Knowledge workers through right education.
A Ph.D. in Computational Physics and with a professional degree in Law, Prof. Pant has been a practitioner in the fields of Law, IT enabled education and IT implementation. Prof. Pant is a former Pro-Vice-Chancellor IGNOU. He has been on the faculty of IIT, Kanpur, NIT, Allahabad and Visiting Professor in University of Western Ontario, Canada. He has been a visiting scientist to research centers in Italy, England. Germany, and Sweden and has delivered invited talks in recent years at International fora at Botswana, Durban, and Paris, Singapore. Melbourne, Mauritius etc. He has about a hundred papers published in reputed International Journals and presented in Conferences.
Prof. Pant has been associated with many educational organizations as members of committees or working groups, such as the NCTE, NCERT, CBSE, NIOS, NIEPA, CEC, UGC, AICTE, AIMA and several Universities. He has been closely linked with the IIT system, having got his Ph.D from IIT, Roorkee, having been a faculty member at IIT, Kanpur and a member of the Board of Governors at IIT, Delhi.
Drawing upon his experience in world class International Institutions and having taught in various modes of face-to-face, distance learning and technology enhanced training with over 40 years of experience, Prof. Pant is now exploring the nature of Institutions which will be successors to the IITs, the IIMs which were designed as premier exclusive organizations and the later Open Universities, to meet the challenges of an inclusive education of high quality. He is also exploring the change in nature of the traditional lecture in the class-room to a collaborative conversation between the teacher and learner(s) using multiple modes including blogging, wikis, podcasting and social networking tools, an experience which is being called classroom 2.0 based on the web 2.0 technologies.
His personal commitment is to improve education, including teacher training building on his experimentation with Mastery learning through Keller Plan while at IIT, Kanpur and mass based e-learning at IGNOU to create a blended learning model for life-span education.
Creating a personalized learning experience, catering to differing learning styles, developing “Learning Metrics” and enhancing learner motivation and learning rates and empowering learners to learn and learning to think, thus enabling them to learn anything are some of the ideas being explored and developed by him.