“e-thaksalawa” the National e-learning portal
Source : Ministry of Education (https://moe.gov.lk/students/e-thaksalawa/)
“e-thaksalawa” Learning Content Management System (LCMS) is produced and developed by the ICT Branch, Ministry of Education with a view of improving as a content repository in future to provide various services for virtual classrooms,storing, accessing, and managing contents.
The production and creation of the e-thaksalawa is completely done as an in house project entirely using the teachers who are working in the government schools in Sri Lanka e-thaksalawa is a continuous developing repository.
Main intention of introducing this Learning Content Management System is , to provide equity of education for the students even considering the multi ethnic community (Tamil, Sinhala & English), geographical boundaries and other existing issues pertaining to the delivery of formal education. Through this web site , it is expected to reach the students who are left behind due to various reasons and also for the students who require more information and resources on formal education, nationally and internationally.
e-thaksalawa is designed in such a way that all the users have full range of required resources to follow the respective lessons in the curriculum. e-thaksalawa provides resources aligning to all the subjects from Grade 1 to Grade 13 considering the GCE (A/L) streams and also general knowledge with areas to be known as a student or a person in a community.
e-thaksalawa is a LCMS, designed to incorporate all the appropriate features in order to provide systematic, enjoyable and leisure learning experience. The contents of Primary grades are developed so as to be used interactively, as kids are very much like to play with the contents interactively (active learning) rather than engaging for passive learning.