IGNOU releases 09' calendar

Updated on: Wednesday, April 22, 2009

New Delhi: The Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE) of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has brought out its calendar for the academic year 2009-10.

The various organisations - government and semi-government, private, partner institutes that want their staff to be trained will now be able to apply for their turn for teachers' training at IGNOU.

The calendar covers wide range of training schedules in various disciplines. The training programmes are short-term and of various types of academic, technical, professional, non-academic and administrative domains.

STRIDE is an IGNOU wing, which aims to develop capacities among resource persons engaged in the Open and Distance Learning pedagogy. Training of teachers being the key to assure quality education in Open and Distance Learning mode of pedagogy, STRIDE conducts various training programmes for faculty, administrative and support staff engaged in the ODL in India and abroad.

IGNOU has brought this calendar to target staff of IGNOU, state open universities, correspondence course institutes, and other agencies and organisations in India and overseas.

Following IGNOU mission, STRIDE also identifies training needs of different target groups in ODL, builds up a resource base of up to date information and training materials, courses and expertise, develops training strategies and materials, organises and conducts staff development activities, promotes research in ODL, and also offers degree programmes leading to MPhil and PhD degrees.

Imparting staff training for over two decades thus, STRIDE has been acclaimed internationally. It has served the distance education training needs of Asian, African and the Caribbean countries. Indeed, in areas of staff development, training, research and publications, STRIDE has made its presence felt in the ODL of 45 countries.

According to Prof PP Ramanujam, Director of STRIDE, "A slew of interests from more nations such as from the North and South Americas and Europe have been received at IGNOU headquarters. This training programme for the year 2009-10 is indicative of the range and depth of issues handled by STRIDE."

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