OUP India’s ‘Oxford Educate’ marks hat-trick of IDA Awards

Oxford Educate, the digital solution of the Oxford University Press India (OUPI) has won the 2015 IDA Award in the category of Digital Content in Education for the third time in a row. The award is a great endorsement for OUPI, which has consistently invested in development of world-class products and services.

21 Sep 2015 | By Dibyajyoti Sarma

The IDA Awards celebrate and reward excellence in educational products, resources and services in and among the education and training fraternity. They have been established to create industry benchmarks for innovation and quality in the education and training domain.

Dominic Savage, OBE, director general, BESA and forum director ASES & EWF, United Kingdom and Ashoke Kumar Biswas, additional secretary, ministry of education, Bangladesh presented the award to OUP India at the IDA Awards Ceremony held in Bengaluru in the presence of over 500 top educationists from across the globe.

Oxford Educate is a digital aid that integrates an eBook with interactive teaching tools and learning materials. It incorporates a variety of resources: interactive animations, videos, poem and prose animations and audios for different courses, instructional slide shows, lesson plans, answer keys, additional worksheets, image references and much more.

As the interactivities built into the Oxford Educate platform are intrinsically connected to the ‘course book’, the teacher can engage students with intensive auditory and visual stimuli in combination with associated learning and testing activities. The highlight of Oxford Educate is a comprehensive and easy-to-use Test Generator, an effective assessment tool designed to benefit teachers by enabling them to create a variety of test papers.

Oxford Educate is provided as a value added service to the schools that are using OUP Course books and is supported online through a dedicated website www.oxfordeducate.in.

OUP India today develops digital solutions, while continuing to publish over 400 new books and revised editions every year. OUP India’s publishing programme covers school courses, higher education texts, academic and reference works, titles of general interest, bilingual dictionaries, atlases, adult ELT materials, and digital and assessment products. Established in 1912, OUP India has grown to be one of the largest publishers in the region, with a strong presence in India and the neighbouring countries, including Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Headquartered at New Delhi, it has regional offices in Delhi, Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai.