Chennai :

The Chennai Corporation, in collaboration with Teaching College affiliated to Columbia University, New York, inaugurated the Centre for the Science of Learning at the Higher Secondary School in Alwarpet on Wednesday.

The centre will be customised to improve teaching capacity and to assess student potential and is said to benefit more than 80,000 students and 3,000 teachers.

“This initiative will monitor students’ performance and enable teachers to modify their methodology to suit student behaviour,” Mayor Saidai Duraisamy said at the inauguration.

Ryan Baker, associate professor of cognitive studies at Teachers College, said that common education problems could be addressed by using global tools and methodologies.

source: http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com / The Times of India / Home> City> Chennai / by Divya Chandrababu, TNN / July 16th, 2014