IGNOU SOLVED ASSIGNMENT

This programme has been designed for people who have an interest in open and distance education (either by virtue of being an employee in the open distance learning system or willing to work in the system). In-service teachers of Distance Education Centres and Open Universities would be highly benefitted from the Programme. However, a graduate in any discipline is eligible to enroll in MADE.

Lateral Entry to the second year shall be given to those who have earlier completed DDE/PGDDE. Students who are seeking lateral entry have to follow the procedure and payment for credit transfer as laid down by the Student Registration Division.

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

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

The counseling 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.

Counseling is not lecturing, though a counseling session may include a short lecture to trigger a discussion. In fact, the counseling 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 counseling sessions.

The Student Service Centre (SSC) acts as a Single Window Nodal Agency for attending to students’ queries with a view to resolving 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 every day 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 11:00 am to 1:00 pm with repeats broadcast from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. 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 chat mode on Gyan Dhara.

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

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 Darshan is also available on the 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 a 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 km and covers an entire city/town including the adjoining rural areas. Gyan Vani serves as an ideal medium for a 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 station 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. 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 the Government of India, is an instrument for self-actualization providing opportunities for 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, an MHRD Project under the NME-ICT (National Mission on Education through ICT), is a group of 32 Direct-to-Home (DTH) channels devoted to a 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 has been digitized 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 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 Students may log in to the application by entering Enrollment No., Program & Date of Birth. After Log-in students 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.