SHEF views technology as an enabler for cost-effective replication. Through Digital Study Hall (DSH), it has found simple technology solutions that are easy to produce and access in order to share the best practices of all SHEF schools with remote rural private and public schools, teacher training institutes, teachers, and students across India and abroad. With an in-house video production crew (led by Prerna School alumni), DSH produces video lessons from recordings of SHEF classrooms and learning spaces. The videos are live footage of the whole class, including the students and their responses. They are intended for teachers, and focus on demonstrating what good pedagogy looks like in real settings, as well as what an active, engaging classroom looks like.

All content produced by DSH is free of cost to the public, available online and by request. In areas where internet connections are unreliable or non-existent, the videos are distributed on flash drives. More than 1400 high-quality classroom video lessons from class 1 to class 8, following UP board, CBSE, and NIOS curricula, are available on our YouTube channel, DSHOnline. These videos provide a dynamic and interactive experience, allowing teachers and students to feel part of a social learning environment. To date, DSHOnline videos have amassed 18 million views and 117,000 subscribers.

DSH content is not only used as a tool for quality academic education, but also as a tool to motivate and empower. Furthering SHEF’s agenda of pursuing gender equity and building social awareness, DSH has recorded critical dialogues on topics like domestic violence, sexual abuse, child marriage, and many other problems faced by women and girls in India. These videos are also available freely online and by request.

DSH’s work has been widely recognized. In 2017, DSH became the content partner with the government’s Ministry of Human Resource and Development’s National Teacher Platform. The video lessons are accessible to the teachers of government and private schools across India and abroad. In 2007, the program received the ACM Eugene Lawler Award for Humanitarian Contributions within Computer Science and Informatics, and was also awarded the top prize in the education category of the 2008 Tech Awards by the Tech Museum of Innovation.