The School of Open Learning (SOL) with the slogan – We are the change that we wish to see- is heading towards a complete transformation in teaching techniques with an aim to make it technology dependent.
Consequently, classrooms are getting equipped with interactive whiteboards, lectures are being recorded and put online to enhance the retention level in students. Also, the study material for all the courses are being uploaded online.
According to the Senior Official at SOL, 10 have already been installed inside the SOL campus. However, he added that no more expenditure will be incurred by them in the process. "All the whiteboards were bought from the money that SOL had won in Antardham Award for good governance," he added.
Even the lecturers are getting benefited from the online content improvement by SOL. Meanwhile, the SOL website is hosting tutorials for teachers so that they can learn how to use software and then use these skills while teaching. Interestingly, with this initiative, the students also find studying easier as all the online study material has a text to speech option which reads out the entire test to them. Executive Director, Campus of Open Learning H C Pokhriyal said, "Our plans were to eventually turn the institution into a technology dependent one. We have already shifted all study material to the digital format by giving students notes on pen drives.
The study text has even been uploaded on the SOL website. We want to make teaching audio-visual as it will help students study more."
"We have also introduced Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) ," added Pokhriyal.
SOL will soon conduct online examination and also plans to launch a much-desired course in PG, said sources.
Currently, SOL is offering 10 courses for undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. The undergraduate degrees include B.A (Programme), B.A Political Science(H), B.A English(H), B.Com(H) and B.Com (Programme).
The varsity's SOL will commence admissions for the new academic session from June 1, 2017. The Institute will release its prospectus along with the application form on its website sol.du.ac.in. While the last date for application is July 31, students can apply after paying a penalty fee of Rs 100 till August 31 and Rs 200 till September 15.