UGC Sponsored Special Winter School concluded at HRDC, NEHU
Date : 14th November, 2015
A three-week Special Winter School on the theme Challenges in Higher Education and the role of ICT , organized by the UGC-Human Resource Development Centre (HRDC), NEHU, Shillong, concluded on the 14th November, 2015.
The programme aimed at the in-depth understanding of Higher Education Scenario in the country and the role & impact of ICT in revolutionizing the Higher Education Sector, was attended by 52 participants from various Colleges and Universities from Meghalaya, Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Tripura.
In an attempt to orient teachers towards technology-enabled teaching & learning, UGC HRDC, NEHU, extended the functionality of its existing website (www.hrdcnehu.com) by adding the Moodle-MOOC's Learning Management Platform with the help of Prof. K. Srinivas, Professor of ICT (Information Communication Technology), NEUPA, New Delhi, who was one of the Resource Persons in the Programme.
Honorable Vice-Chancellor, NEHU, Prof. S.K. Srivastav, who was the Chief Guest during the Valedictory function, delivered the valedictory address where he expressed the importance of ICT in teaching and education, and desired that the teachers attending the course should make use of the Moodle Platform at their respective work places.
Explaining the importance of technology in the teaching profession, Prof. Rakesh Mohan, Director, UGC-HRDC NEHU, expressed that online education is the need of the hour as it provides opportunities for lifelong learning to a teacher/student on-campus as well as off-campus.
He was hopeful that using the Moodle platform, HRDC can now make available the learning resources to selected participants before joining the course, online assessment and can provide reading materials, etc. The course coordinator Dr. Kuheli B. Das proposed the vote of thanks and expressed her satisfaction over the successful completion of the programme.
* This information is sent by Prof. Rakesh Mohan, Director UGC-HRDC, North Eastern Hill University, Shillong who can be contacted at mohanrakeshdr(aT)yahoo(dOT)co(dOT)in
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