UGC has approved the Refresher Programmes and Short-Term Professional Development Programmes of STRIDE-IGNOU as equivalent to UGC-HRDC for all purposes, including API and CAS. This has been approved in the 78th meeting of the Academic Council of IGNOU.
Two categories of training undertaken by STRIDE are given as follow:-
i) UGC-HRDC Refresher/STP/CBP, for teachers, academic and non-teaching staff.
ii) Ministry of Education-UGC NEP-PDP National Training of University and College Teachers.
i) UGC-HRDC for STRIDE Refresher and Short-Term Professional Development Programmes, and Capacity Building Programmes
UGC has approved the Refresher Programmes and Short-Term Professional Development Programmes of STRIDE-IGNOU as equivalent to UGC-HRDC for all purposes, including API and CAS (Ref: letter No. D.O. No.F16-11/2021(HRDC/IGNOU) dated 10th March, 2022). This has been approved in the 78th meeting of the Academic Council of IGNOU, June 13, 2022.
Besides offering PGDDE and MADE as long-term Professional Development Programmes in Distance Education, STRIDE conducts short-term training programmes of various types and for varieties of academic, technical/professional, and non-academics/organizations in India and overseas. Every year, training programmes ranging from 03 to 12 days on various aspects of distance education are conducted for staff working at IGNOU, in State Open Universities, Distance Education Institutes and all HEIs all over the country and abroad. Here are a few examples:
i) Induction and Orientation Programmes for Open and Distance Learning (ODL) (6 days)
- Newly Recruited Teachers and Academics
- Newly Recruited Non-Teaching Staff
- Academic Counsellors in ODL (3 days)
- Induction Programme for M.Phil./Ph.D. Scholars (3-6 days)
ii) Short Term Professional Development Programmes (6 days) (all relating to NEP-2020)
- ‘Research Monitoring and Evaluation in Distance Education’.
- ‘Design and Development of Self-Learning Materials for Distance and Online Learning’.
- ‘Curriculum and Instructional Design for ODL and Online Learning’.
- ‘Design and Development of Online and Blended Learning’.
- ‘Design, Development and Delivery of MOOCs’.
- ‘Development and Use of Open Educational Resources (OER)’.
- ‘Research Methodology in Distance and Online Learning’
- ‘Assessment and Evaluation in ODL’.
- ‘Programme Evaluation in Open and Distance Learning’.
- ‘Learner Support in Open Distance and Online Learning’.
- ‘NEP 2020 and Teaching-Learning in Higher Education’.
- ‘Skilling and Employability in Open and Distance Learning’.
- ‘Accreditation and Quality Assurance in ODL’.
- ‘Serving Students with Disabilities in Open, Distance and Online Learning’.
- ‘Digital Pedagogy’
- ‘Artificial Intelligence in Education and Research’.
- Multidisciplinary and Holistic Education.
- E-Assessment in Online, and Blended Learning.
[These programmes also cover overseas institutions and participants]
iii) Refresher Programmes on Distance and Open Learning (12 days)
- Refresher on ‘Open and Distance Learning’.
- Refresher on ‘Online and Blended Learning.
- Refresher on ‘Design and Development of Self Learning Materials’.
- Refresher on ‘Design, Development and Delivery of MOOCs’.
- Refresher on ‘Research Methodology and Statistical Data Analysis’.
iv) Specialized Capacity Building Programmes (3 days)
- Training of Academic Counsellors/ACT Online
- Technology Enabled Learning
- SLM Development
- Support Services in ODL
- Self-Learning Material Development (SLMD) for SOUs and DEIs
- Curriculum Design and Development
- Course Adaptation/Transformation/Revision
- Media and Technology in Distance Education
- RTI Workshop for CPIOs, IGNOU
- ICT/Audio-Video/Media
- Effective Writing and Communication Skills
- Skills/Tools for Administrate (Non-Teaching) Staffs
- Role of Faculty in NEP-2020.
- Learning Analytics.
- Management and Finance for ARs, SOs, Assistants.
- Data Mining for Research.
- Governance and Leadership in DOL.
These programmes are offered at institutional, regional, national and international levels with the help of resource persons, training packages, teleconferencing and distance and online learning. The following programmes relating to various thematic areas of NEP-2020 have been conducted.
Number of programs and participants (1987-2022)
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Types of Programmes
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No. of Programmes
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No. of Participants
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Refresher
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15
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330
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FDP
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11
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381
|
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Workshops
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476
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10244
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Orientaiton / Induction
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110
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2101
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Total
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612
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13056
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For 2020-2022, STRIDE has completed 40 training programmes covering 1374 participants (box below) from ODL Institutions and other HEIs. The 2022-23 Training Calendar includes 54 programmes for this year.
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Year
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No. of Programme
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No. of Participants
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Mode
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2020
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6
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212
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Online-6
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2021
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10
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335
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Online-6, Offline-4
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2022
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33
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1027
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Online-20, Offline-13
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Total
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49
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1574
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Online-32, Offline-17
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ii) National Training on NEP-PDP for 15 Laksh University and College Teachers on the Implementation on National Educational Policy-2020
[The NEP-PDP national training is guided by a NEP-Implementation Committee and five Working Groups, with Prof. Santosh Panda (Director, STRIDE) as Coordinator, Dr. G. Mythili (Additional Director, STRIDE) as Convener of WG on Swayam Delivery, and Prof. C.R.K. Murthy and Dr. Gloria Kuzur as Convener and Co-Convener.]
At the instance of the Ministry of Education, GoI and as approved by University Grants Commission as equivalent to UGC-HRDC short-term programme (STP), IGNOU through its nodal training agency the Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education (STRIDE) undertook the national capacity building programme on training of 15.1 lakh university and college teachers for implementation of NEP-2020 in higher education institutions under Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya National Mission on Teachers and Teaching (PMMNMTT).
The NEP-PDP (as STP: short-term professional development programme) of 6-days (36 hours to be completed in 9 days) was designed and implemented by combining for the first time, the following three national technology platforms:
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· SAMARTH Platform for the registration of university and college teachers by the 56 regional centres of IGNOU.
· SWAYAM Vertical-II Platform for the online delivery of the STP, comprising 14 Modules, 31 Videos, Discussion Forum interaction, Assessment though MCQs for DF (30%) and End-Programme Test (70%) in which 50% scoring is the minimum for passing and certification. The modules and videos have been contributed by national experts and heads of institutions from AICTE, AIU,NAAC, NCERT, NIEPA, IGNOU, JNU among others.
· Swayam Prabha Channel-20 for interaction, on each of the six days of the programme, with teachers through Swayam Prabha Channel-20 interactive chat system conferencing by expert mentors on various important themes of NEP, including IKS, mother tongue education, multidisciplinarity, skilling and employability multiple entry-exit, ABC, blended curriculum design and pedagogy, multidisciplinary institutions, cross-border educational delivery, etc. So far 42 conferencing have been presented, and about 30 conferencing videos have been edited and put at Swayam NEP-PDP platform, and all videos are available at YouTube under COE-Live.
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A national advisory from the Secretary, Ministry of Education, Government of India was sent to all State and UT Education Secretaries to send further notifications/orders to Vice-Chancellors and Principals of colleges to depute teachers to register and complete the NEP-PDP. An advisory has been sent by chairman-AICTE to all professional education institutions; by UGC to all UGC-HRDCs; and by Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU to all VCs of Central Universities.
A trail run for NEP-PDP Swayam and Swayam Prabha videos and an Introductory Video were circulated through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and all IGNOU regional centre websites. RCs further circulated the advisory of Education Secretaries and letters from IGNOU Vice-Chancellor and state level Vice-Chancellors to college principals to depute teachers.
Advisories have been issued by 33 State/UT Education Secretaries in their respective states (Andaman Nicobar Islands(UT), Andhra Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Bihar, Chandigarh(UT), Chhattisgarh, Dadra Nagar Haveli,Daman Diu(UT), Delhi, Goa, Gujarat, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu Kashmir, Jharkhand, Karnataka, Kerala, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Odisha, Pondicherry(UT), Punjab, Rajasthan, Sikkim, Tamil Nadu, Telangana. Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal, West Bengal).
The implementation advertisement of NEP-PDP capacity building was issued on August 15, 2022, following which teachers started getting registered to the NEP-Samarth platform; and the admission data were pushed to Swayam Vertical-II for offer of the programme. The first batch for 6-days training (to be completed in 9 days) started on September 9, 2022.
Swayam Prabha Channel 20: Live Chat-Based Interaction
