The State Institute of Educational Technology

The SIET was constituted under the Travancore Literary Scientific and Charitable Societies Act 1955 on 08.09.1999 as an autonomous society. The Institute, ever since its inception has been adopting itself to play a prime role in fostering as well as supporting and supplementing the educational movement in the state particularly in the arena of Primary education. Its area of operation covers the preparation of video/audio programmes for children of 5 to 17 years of age and the teachers in the regional language in the form of supportive factors for conventional classroom teaching. The Educational programmes produced by the SIET have won wide acclaim and appreciation from the student-teacher-parent community of Kerala State. At present, the SIET telecasts Educational programmes through Doordarshan from 6.30 AM to 7 AM and 5.30 pm to 6 pm on DDI daily. These programmes are targeted at over 5 million students in Kerala. The SIET has been developing digital content with the prime intention of initiating our children into the E-learning system that is currently being implemented across the state. As part of its activities, SIET, Kerala, has been organizing the All Kerala Children’s Educational Film Festival every year. SIET has been conducting workshops on various fields of Educational Technology for teachers through ET Clubs. SIET is conducting Workshops for students on New Technologies like Nano Technology, AI, Bio-Informatics, Visual Technology etc. The prime goal of SIET, Kerala is an action plan that is effective for the betterment of the next generation.