Learning Olympiads

‘Learning Olympiads’ – a series of Olympiads – is an initiative by Learning Links Foundation focused towards helping students and teachers to learn willingly, assess and apply their knowledge and skills, in turn get motivated and recognized at various levels. We wish all participants to Engage, Evolve and Express.

Students are the future of our country and it is pertinent to think and make them future ready – a future in which the children of the present shall be the leaders of tomorrow.

These Olympiads/Contests will be held through a robust website and all activities pertaining to the Olympiad from registration, unique ID generation, submission of application, accessing information on ‘learning olympiad’, mock test provision, randomized generation of question paper, auto responses, updates, announcements, viewing feedback, photos and videos and much more would be available on the website.

Learning Links Foundation consider this initiative an awareness campaign because the world is moving into an age of openness and transparency through technology based process. Thus, we encourage each citizen to participate in adopting, adapting and automating simple tasks as fundamental principles of learning thereby opening more job opportunities for our future generations.

Since we are entering into a digital era, we would like to make a contribution towards making future generation smart and responsible Netizens. With this vision, ‘Digital Citizenship & Cyber Wellness Olympiad’ (DCCWO) was launched.

‘Learning Olympiads’ is endorsed by Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, NeGD, Digital India and UNICEF.

Digital Citizenship & Cyber Wellness Olympiad (DCCWO)

In recent years digitization is no more confined to controlled laboratory but have started addressing real world scenarios and situations. The rising interest in digital world stems from the fact that all small and big tasks require digitization. Digitization is everywhere – the car we drive, the phone we use etc. Everyone is keen to invent and use new technologies. But everyone who uses technology – is he/she a good digital citizen/netizen? Just as we know the rules of the society, we must know rules of the digital world, how to be safe and responsible with technology.

The main objective of Learning Olympiads on Digital Citizenship & Cyber Wellness is to inculcate interest in students about working safely and responsibly on internet and create a safe learning and sharing web environment for everyone. They must know how important and crucial it is to head responsibly towards automation and digitization.

The Olympiad is open to students, educators and anyone, who is interested in learning to be Cyber Safe. This Olympiad is not about participation only from the toppers or super tech-savvy but can be participated by anyone who understands logic of using technology. It does not focus on marks and ranks but is more about promoting sustainability, it is about making each child of the school a responsible Netizen. With the advent of one-is-to-one teaching with technology and cashless economy and several other e-initiatives of our government, it further pushes all of us towards using on-line resources more responsibly and efficiently.

‘Learning Olympiads’ – DCCWO witnessed participation from 91,054 participants across 29 States and 7 Union Territories of India, school from Sweden, Malaysia UAE, Oman and Nigeria. The portal was visited by 9,92,204 viewers.

Objectives of ‘Digital Citizenship & Cyber Wellness’ Olympiad (DCCWO)

Create a safe and secure cyber space for all – Ready our future generations as competent leaders of Digital India and empower educators on the same to act as mentors so that a safe on-line environment is created
Digital empowerment of citizens including students, educators and schools
Collaborative social media groups for participative activities
Create digitally authenticable, transparent, real-time and an inexpensive lifelong learning
Ethical and productive use of technology through mobiles
Opportunity to create a digitally connected learner’s community in rural and urban India
Bring transformation in the classroom learning by interactive, practical and innovative involvement
Knowledge of cyber laws in relation to Indian Penal code
Aware and responsible Netizens thus good Citizens
Empower entire paradigm of RESPECT, EDUCATE and PROTECT (REP) while keeping pace with expectations of digital environment and its integration in way of life

‘Learning Olympiads’ is supported by Wizfinity Edusolutions Pvt. Ltd as knowledge partner and administrative managers of the website.