DDE has been on offer since 1987; and the PGDDE and MADE have been on offer all over India and in above 20 countries supported by ADB, COL, SADC, UNESCO, WB.  The PGDDE/PGDDEOL is a unique professional development programme designed and developed by IGNOU with the aim of creating specialized human resources for the open and distance learning system. The programme was first launched by IGNOU in 1987 and has undergone five revisions to assimilate the changes in the ODL system. This programme is popular in the Commonwealth as well as in other countries of Asia, Africa, Caribbean countries and many developing countries. The PGDDE aims at promoting awareness about the concept and utility of ODL amongst teachers of ODL as well as the formal education system; and in doing so building capacities of human resources in these systems.

Link for MADE and MADEOL: https://iop.ignouonline.ac.in/programme/p35 (Programme Guide :
http://ignou.ac.in/upload/programme/Programme%20Guide%20Masters%20of%20Art%20in%20Distance%20Education.pdf )

 

We arrange the academic counselling for learners for clarification of doubts and answering of academic queries. Academic Counselling can be held at STRIDE office or may be internet based.

 

Students who have enrolled from abroad (outside India) can contact their sponsoring agencies or partner institutions for information on counselling.

 

The counselling sessions are not compulsory. However, we advise you to attend them as far as possible, because they would be very useful in certain respects to share your views on the subject with your Academic Counsellors and fellow learners; comprehend some of the complex ideas/concepts or difficult issues discussed in your materials, and get clarifications for many of your doubts which you would not have solved yourself.

 

Counselling is not lecturing, though a counselling session may include a short lecture to trigger a discussion. In fact, the counselling session is a group activity session, where you participate in discussions, listen to audio and view video programmes, get your doubts clarified and do such other activities to comprehend the text. Therefore, it is important that you participate in the counselling sessions.

 

The Student Service Centre (SSC) acts as a Single Window Nodal Agency for attending to students queries with a view to resolve their difficulties pertaining to Admission, Registration, Evaluation, Examination, non-receipt of Study Material and Regional Centre related issues. Campus Placement Cell The prime objective of a learner is to get a suitable placement after successful completion of his/her study at IGNOU. To facilitate the learners towards this end, a Campus Placement Cell (CPC) has been established at the IGNOU HQ to maintain liaison with prospective employers and arrange their interactions with the prospective job-seekers among the IGNOU learners across the country.

 

Interactive Radio Counselling (IRC) sessions for the benefit of IGNOU students are scheduled everyday with the participation of 21 schools, STRIDE, RSD and other Divisions of IGNOU. Two live sessions are broadcast every day on FM Gyanvani Delhi and online at Gyandhara from 11:00am to 1:00 pm with repeats broadcast from 5:30pm to 7:30pm. In addition, every Thursday, 4-5 pm a special IRC session is conducted for Students Support Services. Other special IRCs on different themes and issues are also conducted from time to time. Students can listen to these live discussions by the teachers and experts on the topic of the day and interact with them through telephone, email or through chat mode on Gyan Dhara.

 

Radio counselling will be held through FM and students can ask questions free of cost with phone in facilities right from their homes. A toll free telephone number 110012345 has been provided for this purpose.

 

Teleconferencing
Teleconferencing is a one-way video and two-way audio facility. Teleconferencing will be held every month. During teleconferencing session, you will get an opportunity to interact by phone in facility or fax with the resource persons/experts who participate in teleconferencing session and clear your doubts immediately.

The teleconferencing facility will be available at the Regional Centres. The teleconferencing schedule will be sent to the Programme In-charge and Regional Director who would inform the students. Teleconferencing is done through Gyan Darshan Channel. Students must regularly attend these sessions. These will help them clarify doubts and interact with other learners all over the country.

 

Gyan Darshan (GD) channel is a major milestone in the field of Educational Television in India. It is a joint venture of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Ministry of Information & Broadcasting (I & B Ministry), Prasar Bharati and IGNOU serving as the nodal agency. Launched in the year 2000, GD is a 24-hour educational channel which offers the best of educational programmes covering a variety of subjects and catering to a wide range of viewers. These include pre-school, primary, secondary and higher secondary students, college/university students, youth seeking career opportunities, homemakers and working professionals. Induction Programmes for new students and convocations for graduating students are also conducted live through Teleconferencing every year.

 

Gyan Drashan is also available on webcast, thus extending the reach of IGNOU programmes to audiences world over. The Gyan Darshan telecast is also beneficial for students of the formal education system and the viewers can access Gyan Darshan on IGNOU’s website https://www.ignouonline.ac.in/gyandarshan/. As Gyan Darshan Channel is must carry channel as per the Government of India Gazette notification, a number of private DTH/Cable Operators carry Gyan Darshan in their Bouquets. Gyan Darshan is now part of Swayam Prabha and can be watched on MHRD Channel no.25.

 

Gyan Vani (GV) FM Radio was conceived in 2001 as a network of educational FM Radio Channels operating from various cities in the country. With an aim to enhance and supplement the teaching-learning process, each GV Station has a range of about 60 kms and covers an entire city/town including the adjoining rural areas. Gyan Vani serves as an ideal medium for niche audience addressing the local educational, developmental and socio-cultural requirements of the people. The flavor of the channel is by and large local and the medium is English, Hindi or language of the region. The overall content pertains to Primary and Secondary Education, Adult Education, Technical and Vocational Education, Higher Education, Distance Education and Extension Education etc. Interactive Radio Counseling (IRC) facility is being provided by GV Stations to enable students to interact with the faculty, academic counselors and student support staff. The live phone-in programmes are popular components of the network. The programmes broadcast through each stations include both pre-recorded and live content.

 

Gyandhara is an internet audio counseling service offered by IGNOU. Students can listen to the live discussions by the teachers and experts on the topic of the day and interact with them through telephone, email and also chat mode. When live sessions are not on, Gyanvani Delhi is made available on this platform. The Gyandhara streaming is available for internet users anywhere in the world. Important events broadcast by GV Delhi are also relayed by all GV stations using the Gyandhara feed.

 

You can access Gyandhara using the link https://www.ignouonline.ac.in/gyandhara/

  

SWAYAM, an initiative by Government of India, is an instrument for self-actualization providing opportunities for a life-long learning through Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs). Learners can choose from hundreds of courses on SWAYAM from high school to PG level including vocational and skill based training.

 

SWAYAM Prabha, a MHRD Project under the NME-ICT (National Mission on Education through ICT), is group of 32 Direct-to-Home (DTH) channels devoted to 24×7 basis telecast of high-quality educational programmes with the use of GSAT-15 satellite. These channels will telecast programmes for Higher Education, School Education; Curriculum based courses to meet need of lifelong learners and programmes to assist students of Standards 11 and 12, to prepare for competitive examinations.  

 

The content for SWAYAM Prabha is provided by various national institutions and bodies such as UGC, IITs, CEC, NPTEL, IGNOU, NCERT and NIOS. The SWAYAM Prabha channels are available free for use by anyone. Students can access the educational content transmitted through SWAYAM Piranha by installing and configuring DTH service by setting up of a Set top box.

 

IGNOU initiated the development of a knowledge repository named e-GyanKosh (www.egyankosh.ac.in) in October, 2005, to store, index, preserve, distribute and share the digital learning resources developed by the ODL institutions in the country. Self-instructional print material of around 2565 courses (comprising more than forty thousand course modules) and 2389 video programmes of IGNOU have been digitised and uploaded on the repository.

 

Students can view/download IGNOU study material free of cost from the University website www.ignou.ac.in. To view/download IGNOU study material the student has to register at http://www.egyankosh.ac.in/register 

 

SMS or short message service has emerged as a very common way of instant and short communication through the mobile phones. IGNOU has been actively using SMS as a means to reach to its distant learners. Some of the areas for which SMS is actively used by the University are:

‘IGNOU StudentApp’ Mobile App is an Official Mobile App of Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi. This app is an ICT initiative of IGNOU to provide student related information to IGNOU learners and extending Technology Enhanced Learner Support Services to them. Existing Student may login to application by entering Enrollment No., Program & Date of Birth. After Log-in student may access various IGNOU student related services such as Registration Details, Material Dispatch Status, Identity Card, Grade Card, TEE Result, Hall Ticket and various other important links in one window.

 

STRIDE has developed Handbooks on various topics such as open and distance learning, effective learning, development of self-learning material, media and technology in distance education, e-learning, opportunities for the North-east learners, and serving students with disabilities etc. All STRIDE Handbooks are available on IGNOU website: http://www.ignou.ac.in/ignou/aboutignou/icc/stride/traning-materials

Audio and video programmes for each course have been prepared to support learning for the students. These Audio and video cassettes will be provided for viewing and listening. They can also hire the cassettes for viewing and listening.

 

Sample question papers of MADE programme are given on page 43. You can download old question papers from IGNOU website: https://webservices.ignou.ac.in/Pre-Question/

 

Assignment is an important component of your study. Each course of MADE has one compulsory assignment. The assignments carry 25% weight in the final result. Kindly note that it is compulsory for you to submit one assignment per course, else you will not be allowed to appear in the term-end examination. You can download your assignments from the IGNOU website: https://webservices.ignou.ac.in/assignments/

 

For any other information about MADE programme and its courses please contact:

 

Email: anitapriyadarshini@ignou.ac.in; madecoordinator@ignou.ac.in