Meta, CBSE expands partnership to train 10 million students and 1 million teachers

Meta, formerly Facebook, will extend its partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE), India’s biggest school board and will offer training to over 10 million students and a million teachers over the next three years. It will also provide a curriculum on digital safety and online well being.

"I'm really excited about that partnership. And I think it's just a huge opportunity and bringing just some of these tools around the metaverse and VR (virtual reality) and training to the education system here in India, I think it's gonna be awesome. I'm really excited about this and glad we're working on this,” Meta Founder & CEO Mark Zuckerberg said at the company's annual Fuel for India 2021 event.

The first phase of ‘FB for Education’ initiative was launched in June 2020 and it to prepared students and teachers for the future of work and creating a safe online environment and learning experience. The collaboration of Meta and CBSE on content curation and development of curriculum will integrate immersive technologies, AR and VR that is relevant for the evolving digital world by introducing these as skills subjects for students. Thus, by integrating augmented reality experiences into the curriculum, students will be able to collaborate more actively and create using emerging technologies of the future.