The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has organized workshop to train teachers from universities across the nation, in order to develop online courses.
The workshop namely “How to create/develop online courses was attended by 21 faculty members from various universities, including Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi, Anna University, Chennai, and Tilak Maharashtra Vidyapeeth, Maharashtra.
According to an IGNOU official open universities in the world and other traditional universities are developing online courses to encourage the reach of their study materials via videos, web content, internet and satellite. He added that they understand that the teachers should be trained properly to meet the challenges of the future. Therefore, the workshop was organized.
As per sources, the training included explaining and describing the instructional design for online courses, highlighting tools used to create such courses and so on. Madhu Parhar, Director, Inter-University Consortium, IGNOU, said that there should be judicious use of multimedia, activities and interactivity among learners for effective online learning.
She also informed that more than 95 percent of IGNOU's self-instructional print material has been digitized and uploaded on the repository; 1,600 video programmes on YouTube and virtual classes are initiatives by the University towards a easy learning environment.
