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Union Minister of State for Education Sukanta Majumdar said region and unfastened learning comprise implicit one-tenth of the full enrollment successful higher acquisition crossed India.
Mr. Majumdar, who delivered a video connection connected the juncture of Karnataka State Open University’s (KSOU) 21st Annual Convocation held successful Mysuru connected January 31, further stated that region and unfastened learning is simply a captious pillar successful achieving the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020 people of 50% Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) successful higher acquisition by 2035.
In his convocation speech, copies of which were distributed connected the occasion, Mr. Majumdar said acquisition is the instauration of nationalist development, and unfastened and region learning has emerged arsenic a almighty instrumentality for inclusive maturation and societal transformation.
Distance education, peculiarly online education, is fundamentally transforming the planetary acquisition scenery by redefining how, erstwhile and wherever learning takes place. “Advances successful integer technologies, wide net connectivity and the proliferation of astute devices person enabled acquisition to determination beyond the boundaries of accepted classrooms, making high-quality learning accessible to millions crossed continents,” helium said.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), micro-credentials and modular certification programmes are allowing learners to get industry-relevant skills aligned with rapidly changing occupation markets, portion blended and hybrid models are combining the strengths of online and face-to-face acquisition to amended effectiveness and scalability, helium said.
While pointing retired that the aboriginal of acquisition is digital, blended and technology-enabled, Mr. Majumdar said, “We are witnessing accelerated translation done artificial intelligence-driven adaptive learning, monolithic unfastened online courses, micro-credentials, virtual laboratories, simulation-based learning and hybrid acquisition models.”
He said unfastened and region learning institutions indispensable germinate arsenic innovation hubs, focusing not lone connected contented delivery, but besides connected employability, entrepreneurship and life-long learning to conscionable the demands of a dynamic planetary economy.
In his invited address, KSOU Vice Chancellor Prof. Sharanappa V. Halse said the assemblage has been accredited with NAAC A+ Grade with a CGPA of 3.31, and has secured the 2nd fertile successful the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) 2025 for Open Universities. He besides noted that KSOU is offering 80 world programmes recognised by the UGC-DEB (Distance Education Bureau), which is the highest fig approved for immoderate unfastened assemblage successful India.
“The spot placed successful KSOU by learners is evident successful the threefold summation successful pupil admissions and enrollments increasing from astir 6,000 to 40,000 learners per world session, taking the full learner spot beyond 1.5 lakh,” helium said.
The Centre for Future Skills (CFS), which has been established successful collaboration with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), is equipped with state-of-the-art infrastructure successful Artificial Intelligence, Data Analytics, Cybersecurity, Internet of Things, Augmented and Virtual Reality and Cloud Computing, ensures that KSOU learners are future-ready and industry-aligned.
A full of 10,691 candidates received degrees astatine the KSOU convocation. PhD degrees were besides conferred to 68 persons. A full of 65 golden medals and 62 currency prizes were besides awarded connected the occasion.
Degrees were besides awarded to students from the 2021-22 January rhythm to the 2023-24 January rhythm arsenic good arsenic eligible candidates from 2013-14 and 2014-15 world years.
