“I am really excited about this partnership and I think it is a huge opportunity to [invest in] this entrepreneurial spirit and bring some of these tools around the metaverse, [AR], and training to the education system here in India,” Zuckerberg said at Meta’s ‘Fuel for India, 2021’ virtual event.Over the next three years, the partnership also aims to empower educators with new-age tools and skills needed to nurture the Generation Z and Generation Alpha students into responsible digital citizens.Aligned to the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020, Meta and CBSE will collaborate on content curation and development of curriculum integrating immersive technologies like AR and virtual reality (VR) that is relevant for the evolving in a digital landscape.”This partnership will help equip our teachers with requisite skills to effectively use online tools for student engagement,” said Biswajit Saha, Director (Skills Education and Trainings), CBSE.
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