Education Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal to launch IGNOU's online courses today

Union Minister of Human Resource and Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will today launch an online curriculum for the MA Hindi and other courses to be offered at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

Union Minister of Human Resource and Development Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank will today launch an online curriculum for the MA Hindi and other courses to be offered at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

IGNOU have been offering undergraduate, postgraduate, certificate, and diploma courses in the open and distance learning (ODL) mode, it is only recently that the University has started offering courses online too. While the University was offering a few certificate courses in online mode, it is ready to take a giant leap and offer undergraduate and postgraduate courses online too.

Today, the Education Minister will launch the online curriculum for the MA Hindi and online courses at 4 p.m. through the University's official Facebook and Twitter page. The University will gradually offer all its courses in online mode.

An official from IGNOU said that earlier the University had digitalized the study material for all its courses which could be downloaded from the website, but the modus operandi of the courses remained open and distant and not online.

The University has a separate portal for online courses, 'iop.ignouonline.ac.in'.

Both current and prospective students can check their eligibility, duration and fee structure, job/future prospects of the course, and details of the programme coordinator from the website. The online programme will include video and audio lectures, tutorials, etc. which will be available at a click on the website.

Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) was founded in 1985 through an Act of Parliament.  Currently, the public university has 67 regional centres, 21 schools, 29 international partner institutions, around 2,665 learner support centres and more than 3 million students.

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