The Online Capacity Building Programme launched by Delhi SCERT revolutionized the teacher training in the state of Delhi, providing access to continuous professional development opportunities for close to 1 Lakh teachers. The program is delivered through a mobile platform called ChalkLit which has allowed teachers to undergo official training at their convenient time and pace. The use of technology makes it easier for the SCERT department to administer and manage the training process at scale and nudge the trainee participants through automated notifications, texts and calls to complete their training on time. The user analytics data allows them to not only monitor the progress of the teachers but also allows the SCERT to plan each subsequent phase of training in a more informed manner. 

The continuous feedback from teachers helps SCERT improve the intervention to ensure delivery of content to address diverse training needs of our teachers teaching in elementary, middle and secondary schools.  The mentor teachers have been further capacitated to create content during the process and they also now participate in the training process for answering subject matter related queries on the mobile platform and engage with the teachers in the state on the teacher community. The peer learning opportunities thus created have immense potential and teachers in the state are extremely enthusiastic to be able to voice their opinions and share best practices in a pan India community. We have trained and certified 55000+ teachers who in turn are impacting the life and learning outcomes of 25 lakh students of the state. 

OCBP has positively impacted teacher education and teacher preparedness across the teachers of the state of Delhi. Teachers can not only get access to high-quality training on both scholastic and co-scholastic training at their convenience, but they also have continuous access to enhanced lesson plans and a social personalized microlearning network where they get capacitated continuously. Teachers in Delhi are contributing to the development of these training and are proactively requesting to be trained on various topics. The OCBP has reduced a lot of administrative work around course management. Taking Delhi’s lead several other states are starting to adopt OCBP.

• Mode of Training: The complete training lifecycle from the announcement of the training to the issuance of certificates after successful completion of the training is conducted online.
• Timing of Training: Training is now being offered to teachers closer to the time when the teacher has to teach the topic in the classroom ensuring that the inputs are fresh in the teacher's mind. 
• Completion Rates: While globally the completion rates on MOOCs is close to 4-7%. Our program includes a unique services element to ensure completion rates as high as >80%. This includes constant communication with teachers undergoing training using SMS, Email, Calls and Interactions on ChalkLit which are undertaken by mentor teachers and the MSF team.
• Teacher Motivation: The platform chosen for OCBP also offers a peer to peer social personalized microlearning network where teachers are provided best practises of other teachers, education news, conceptual and pedagogical inputs, innovative and relevant content to make classrooms interesting which motivates teachers.
• Content Development Approach: Content development cost is low as almost all of the content is sourced from existing Open Educational Resources and is curated and scaffolded by Subject Matter Experts, teachers of Delhi post which the Million Sparks Team aligns and contains it for presentation on the mobile platform.
• Content Structure and Focus: The content on ChalkLit is highly structured and focuses on pedagogical and conceptual collective insights sourced from many experienced teachers that can improve the teachers delivery in the classroom
• Breadth of Training Content: With a focus on whole-child development to ensure improved life and learning outcomes the OCBP offers both Scholastic and Co-Scholastic content.
• Interactivity: The platform provides several interactivity options. Teachers can comment and ask questions which are answered within a specified period. Each training has multiple evaluations embedded to assess teachers progress in real-time. All videos on the platform can be paused and questions can be embedded to verify understanding.
• Content Development Partnerships: The SCERT Delhi has partnered with several organizations such as Delhi State Legal Authority, Delhi Commission of Protection of Child Rights, Delhi Jal Board, National Green Tribunal, Delhi State Industrial Development Corporation, Yamuna Monitoring Committee to especially offer Co-Scholastic training such as Prevention of Child Sexual Abuse, Eliminating Corporal Punishment, Save Yamuna Save Lives.
• Data Analytics: Complete analysis of all usage and engagement data is available at all times and helps make decisions to personalize training, decide on the next set of training to be created, identify teachers who need to be encouraged to engage more etc.