TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani inaugurates the first phase of the country’s smart school network via a videoconference today.
In the first phase of the smart school, more than 76,000 schools will be connected to the National Information Network (NIN), according to Mehr News Agency.
Under the project, all schools in Iran are planned to join the network gradually.
The opportunity to implement tele-education and distant-learning systems in Iran has never arisen due to a number of reasons, including a lack of the necessary infrastructure.
Certain protective measures have been taken to contain the coronavirus spread among students since the beginning of the current academic year in Iran on September 5.
The Ministry of Education has launched a domestically-developed mobile application, known by the domestic acronym SHAD, to provide the country’s students in worst-hit cities with distance education.
In addition, the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting (IRIB) has also begun broadcasting televised educational programs on a daily basis since the closure of schools in cities where the number of the infected is alarmingly high.
- source : Iran Daily
