NSOU Kolkata organized 3rd and 4thOutreach Programme for Higher Education
New Delhi, April 10, 2018: The School of Vocational Studies, Netaji Subhas Open University, Kolkata has undertaken a joint project with Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asiaentitled “Increase Access and Improve Institutional Capacity for Sustainable Development through Vocational Education and Training”. The objective of this three year project is to increase enrolment in different vocational courses of the university so that the disadvantaged rural people can get access to skill development programmes of this university. The students may take the advantages of skill enhancement programme by which they can increase their skills and competencies in a particular trade. As a part the project the School organized two Outreach ProgrammesinJalpaiguri district at the North Bengal.
The 3rd Outreach program was held on 7th April, 2018 atVivekananda Educational Institute, Moynaguri. 55 students attended this program out of which 39 were women. Two team members from NSOU and Project Adviser along with the Secretary of the Organization were present during the interaction with the participants. Dr Anirban Ghosh, Project Director elucidated the vision of vocational courses as a whole and acquainted learner about different types of courses being offered by NSOU. He also elaborated various scope and coverages of different courses. So that present learners may spread the awareness regarding said courses. Dr Manas Panigrahi from CEMCA and the project adviser stressed upon the need of the vocational education in present day context for the purpose of sustainable development. Mrs. Barnali Roy Choudhury, Co-Project Manager in her deliberations pointed out three pillars of ODL system viz., Study materials, PCPs, and evaluation procedure. She also elucidated educational resources available in on-line mode and offline mode. She also highlighted NSOU OER repository. In this program NSOU team met all the participants individually to make them understand the accessibility of ICT and NSOU-OER repository.
The 4thOutreach Programme was held at Ananda Chandra College, Jalpaiguri on 08th April 2018. 170 participants out of which 130 girls students attended the programme. The Project Adviser, Project Director met the students and discussed the importance and prospects of vocational training in 21st century along with the Project Manager. The Principal and Coordinator of the study centre were also present in the programmes and shared their views on vocational training. Ms. Barnali Roy Choudhury deliberated on the on-line resources specially on NSOU OER Repository.
A structured questionnaire was circulated among the participants to get their response on different aspects of ODL, on-line learning, A/V lectures etc. for the feedback of the participants.
