Rubber Plantations
in the Rajiv Gandhi University campus by the Institute of Distance Education, RGU on 4-5 April 2011. Participants varied from faculty members in University and Colleges to Research Scholars. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. P. K. Das, Director, NERIST. In his inaugural address he enumerated on the importance of distance education especially in context of Arunachal Pradesh.
Prof C. R. K. Murthy and Prof P. K. Biswas, Professors of Distance Education at STRIDE, IGNOU, New Delhi were invited as Resource Persons. Prof. Murthy and Prof. Biswas, threw light on how ODL has become an important medium of imparting education and also the role of counselor in ODL system. Dr. M. C. Behera, the first director of IDE and a Resource Person at the workshop also spoke on inaugural session.
Ashan Riddi, Director of the institute in his welcome address, highlighted how the Institute was establishing itself as a major facilitator of education in distance mode in state. Moyir Riba, Assistant Professor at the Institute also spoke.
The inaugural session was followed by technical sessions, over the two days, as below :
a. ODL an overview with focus on support services
(Prof. C. R. K. Murthy, Professor of Distance Education, STRIDE)
b. Role of counselor and counseling in DE
(Prof. P. K. Biswas, Professor of Distance Education, STRIDE)
c. Issues related to local counselors and counseling
(Dr. M. C. Behera, Associate Professor, Arunachal Institute of
Tribal Studies, RGU)
d. Role and functions of assignments in ODL
(Prof. C. R. K. Murthy, Professor of Distance Education, STRIDE)
e. Mock counseling group work
(Prof. P.K. Biswas, Professor of Distance Education, STRIDE)
f. Interactive Open Session
(Prof. P. K. Biswas & Prof. C. R. K. Murthy)
In the valedictory session, in the presence of Hon’ble Vice Chancellor i/c, Prof. A. Mitra,both the Resource Persons as well the participants shared their view on the workshop.
Rain Water Harvesting
A two days State Level Workshop for “Writing for the Distance Learner- A Workshop on Development of SLMs in ODL” was organized at IDE, Rajiv Gandhi University by the Institute of Distance Education on 26-27 March 2012. The training program targeted to give an introduction and orientation to all Resource Persons of the IDE in preparing study material in the distance mode.
Participants varied from faculty members in Colleges and Research Scholars. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Tamo Mibang, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor. In his inaugural address he expressed how important it was to ‘not just share but share with effectiveness’.
Prof. C. R. K. Murthy and Prof. Madhu Parhar, from STRIDE were the invited Resource Persons. The workshop was designed to be activity oriented.
The inaugural session was followed by technical sessions, over the two days, as below:Technical Session I:“ Growth of Distance Education”, (Prof. C. R. K. Murthy and Prof. Madhu Parhar)
Technical Session II: “Instructional Design for Self Learning Material”, (Prof. Madhu Parhar)
Technical Session III:“ “Structure of Unit (Structure, Introduction, Objectives): Group Work”, (Moyir Riba, Assistant Professor, IDE, RGU)
Technical Session IV: “Content, Intext Questions, Activities (Group work)”, (Moyir Riba, Assistant Professor, IDE, RGU)
In the valedictory session, along with the guests, the participants expressed their problems related to their experiences in ODL. The participants were given participation certificates as well.
Virtual Conference Hall
Participants varied from faculty members in Colleges and Reserch Scholars alongwith the Non-Teaching Staffs. The workshop was inaugurated by Dr. Ashan Riddi, Director, IDE.In his inaugural address he enumerated on the role of the NT Staff in distance education especially in context of Arunachal Pradesh.
Moji Riba, HoD (i/c), Dep’t Of Mass Com, RGU M. Maltesh, Chief Librarian, RGU, Satish Das, Assistant Professor, CSE, RGU and Moyir Riba, Assistant Professor, IDE, RGU were the Resource persons for the day long training.
The inaugural session was followed by technical sessions, over the two days, as below:
Technical Session I:“Adminstration and Management in ODL”, (Moyir Riba, Assistant Professor, IDE, RGU)
Technical Session II: “Library Management”, (M. Maltesh, Chief Librarian, RGU)
Technical Session III:“Use of Microsoft Excel for Record and Register”, (Satish Das, Assistant Professor, CSE, RGU)
Technical Session IV: “Communication for Student Support”, (Moji Riba, HoD, Dep’t Of Mass Com, RGU)
In the valedictory session, along with the guests, the participants expressed their problems related to their experiences in ODL. The participants were given participation certificates as well.
