Every Indian learner deserves to be given a chance to have the highest quality education. Scarcity of trained teachers critically hinders this national desire. Since inception, IIT Bombay has been offering training programs for teachers and professionals and uses ICT enabled process involving both synchronous and asynchronous mode to actually reach out and engage a large number of teachers, and through them, a much larger number of students.
Train 1000 Teachers programme was initiated by IIT Bombay in 2009 under the project, Empowerment of Students/Teachers, sponsored by National Mission on Education through ICT (MHRD, Government of India). It has now grown to include 10,000 teachers under Talk to Teacher project. Mission envisions empowerment of teachers, through workshops conducted for thousands of teachers at one go, using a unique blend of technology and an innovative pedagogy. Thousands have experienced the effectiveness of this approach, and of resulting open source contents.