IGNOU seals deal to extend e-learning

Updated on: Thursday, July 09, 2009

New Delhi, The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU)signed a deal with the government's Department of Information and Technology to facilitate e-learning in east India’s rural areas and optimise the use of technology to provide education in the region.

IGNOU Vice-Chancellor V N Rajashekharan Pillai penciled the deal with the IT Department’s local facilitator in the east Srei Shahaj E-Village Ltd at a function here.

Mr Pillai said this was an initiative to tie their educational services to the 100,000 odd 'Common Service Sundays' centres of the IT Department spread in the country, which provide weekly access to ICT (information communication technology) and the Internet to people from rural areas.

The e-learning programmes that would be linked to the centres include IGNOU's certificate programmes in agriculture, rural development, farming practices, community radio as well as organic farming.

The educational programmes would be coordinated by IGNOU's local counsellors, who would provide online academic material as well as counselling to the people in their subject of study, the VC said.

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