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Kerala Higher Education Minister R. Bindu has said that the aboriginal of higher acquisition volition not beryllium defined by exclusivity, but by inclusion.
Inaugurating the 5th ‘All India Public Open University Vice Chancellors’ Round Table Conference hosted by the Sreenarayanaguru Open University (SGOU) present connected Monday, Dr. Bindu called for a robust nationalist model for recognition transportation and deeper collaboration among unfastened universities.
A seamless model would alteration world mobility, stackable credentials and designation of anterior learning, and let students to implicit programmes crossed institutions and States without procedural barriers.
She pointed retired that unfastened universities are “not peripheral, but pivotal” successful a rapidly transforming higher acquisition scenery shaped by technology, mobility and the increasing request for lifelong learning. Education, she added, indispensable stay “open, accessible, flexible and transformative,” portion stressing connected however institutions specified arsenic the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) and SGOU person reshaped planetary higher acquisition by expanding opportunities beyond accepted systems.
Addressing the challenges of integer transformation, the Minister cautioned against unsighted adherence to exertion that could erode quality engagement, adjacent arsenic institutions indispensable debar being near down successful a pre-digital era. Open universities indispensable strive to span some the carnal and integer disagreement portion preserving world rigour and nationalist trust, she said.
‘Critical intermediaries’
Delivering the keynote address, State Higher Education Council vice-chairperson Rajan Gurukkal urged the teaching assemblage to reinvent themselves arsenic captious intermediaries successful an epoch dominated by generative AI tools. He, however, cautioned that portion specified platforms democratise learning, they are prone to errors, biases and superficial engagement.
The lawsuit is being organised successful collaboration with the Commonwealth of Learning (COL) - Commonwealth Educational Media Centre for Asia (CEMCA). COL main enforcement serviceman Peter Scott, who addressed the league done video-conference, urged universities worldwide to overhaul their concern models and pedagogy arsenic they modulation to multi-mode education.
He recalled however galore accepted institutions responded poorly during the COVID-19 pandemic by simply transferring schoolroom teaching online done exigency distant instruction. Such approaches failed to leverage the imaginable of integer platforms due to the fact that they were rooted successful accepted schoolroom mindsets, helium claimed.
Instead, helium called for institutions to “reimagine learning,” opening with innovative learning plan that integrates interaction, appraisal arsenic learning, and societal elements to heighten pupil engagement.
SGOU Vice Chancellor Jagathy Raj V.P., Indian Association of Public Open Universities president and Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University V-C Sanjeev Sonawane and CEMCA manager Basheerhamad Shadrach besides spoke connected the occasion.
