Stride - The Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education(stride)

Training

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-academic staff of IGNOU, state open universities, dual-mode university distance education institutes, and other agencies/organizations in India and overseas. Every year training programmes ranging from 3 to 21-days on various aspects of distance education are conducted for staff working in the open universities and distance education institutes all over the country and abroad. Various types of training programmes include the following:

	Induction and Orientation Programmes
	Specialised Training (on Specific areas)
	Self-Learning Material Development (SLMD) Workshop at SOUs and DEIs
	Refresher Programme on DE and other Disciplines (in collaboration with schools of studies)
	Non-Teaching Staff Development
	Training of Academic Counsellors
	Training for Research and Teaching Associates (RTAs)
	Online Training on SLM Development

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 focus of these programmes is on the following functional areas:

	Curriculum design and development
	Instructional design
	Development of self-learning materials
	Course adaptation/ transformation/revision
	Management of distance and open education
	Assessment and evaluation techniques
	Learner support and academic counselling
	Media and technology in distance education
	Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) in distance education/ Online learning
	Interactive multimedia in distance education
	Effective writing and communication skills
	R&D in distance education
	Quality in distance education
	Programme evaluation