INDIRA GANDHI NATI Maidan Garhi, New Delhi
IGNOU leading the ict way • In just four years, IGNOU has, in the face of stiff competition from both public and private institutions almost trebled the number of students on its rolls from 1.1 million to about 3.5 million • Has contributed over 11 lakh professionals to the country’s talent pool so far since its inception in 1985 – thus working towards its twin goals in the Decade of Innovation – providing Inclusive Growth and enhancing Gross Enrollment Ratio (GER) • Reached out to the unreached and the marginalised by offering a slew of programmes for jail inmates sex workers, differently-abled • Provided an alternative educational system by setting up 517 Community Colleges across the country • Reached out to the Armed Forces with initiatives like Gyan Deep with the Indian Army and Akashdeep with the Indian Air Force • Ushered in a new era of multimedia and ICT-enabled education through initiatives like Edusat, FlexiLearn and the newly launched website on IT Mass Literacy Programme of the Department of Information Technology (DIT), Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, Govt. of India • Producing industry-ready managers for several sectors by partnering with public and private sector institutions • Establishing a global educational footprint with over 42,000 students enrolled at its 67 Overseas Study Centres in over 40 countries • Diversifying educational delivery through on-campus, online and distance learning modes
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Have a query for IGNOU? An SMS will get you the answer Keeping in mind the huge numbers the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) caters to, the university has launched its second level of SMS alerts service enabling students who are on its rolls as well as the prospective ones to send their queries to IGNOU by SMS. Students can SMS their queries at 9223051616. The query should be prefixed with IGNOU followed by space. For example: IGNOU What is the last date for submission of examination form? International students can also send in their queries on this number to IGNOU. Owing to IGNOU’s presence in over 40 countries this new initiative will benefit students all over the world who are more than 3.5 million as well as all other stakeholders including prospective students. Prior to this, IGNOU was sending SMS alerts to communicate with the learners. The SMS alert service was in existence since November 2008. Till date, more than 1 crore SMS were sent from different departments of IGNOU to its students and other stake holders. Now, with the launch of the latest query-on-SMS service, any one will be able to communicate to IGNOU using SMS. It is now moving towards a more interactive and accessible interface. IGNOU always has been the pioneer in the new-age enterprising initiatives. It has a slew of online courses, facility of video-conferencing lectures, online library and notes, using Edusat and FlexiLearn for ICT-enabled education are some of its new age multimedia interventions.
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