Canva, a visual communication platform, announced its partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) to introduce visual communication to educators throughout CBSE-affiliated schools in India. The programme is aimed at enhancing digital creativity skills amongst principals and teachers and is expected to benefit over 840,000 teachers and over 25 million students across CBSE schools in India, according to a statement.
Canva for Education is a tool designed to enhance the learning experience for teachers, students, and staff alike. With over 70,000 educational templates, this platform offers a wide range of features that make it easy for educators to create visually engaging content for their lessons, presentations, and school materials.
The collaboration will involve a comprehensive series of workshops to demonstrate the full potential of Canva for educators, from enabling classroom design thinking and enhancing lesson plans to refining educational materials and fostering meaningful engagement in the classroom.
Jason Wilmot, Head of Education at Canva, said, “Today’s industry needs an evolved pedagogy that nurtures creativity and design literacy early amongst students and helps enhance their employability factor. Canva will help empower teachers and students to integrate visual communication into their classrooms.”
The first phase of the training series will begin with nearly 30,000 teachers undergoing orientation and workshops aimed at learning about innovative teaching methodologies.
Dr. Biswajit Saha, Director (Skilling), CBSE, said, “Providing such access to our educators will help them save time on design tasks and inspire our students towards a new era of creativity and design.
