Distance Education Programs:-
Achievements :-
1) The Directorate has the distinction of being the first
to introduce correspondence/distance education system in
the state of Jammu and Kashmir and thereby provide opportunities
of higher education through distance mode as a viable alternative
to formal system of education.
2) The courses of the Directorate are catering to the educational
needs of the students of the remote, rural and inaccessible
hilly areas of the Jammu region, as also the students of
urban areas who do not find entry or do not pursue education
through mainstream education system.
3) B.Ed. course of the Directorate has helped substantially
in clearing backlog of untrained teachers serving in the
govt. schools of the state.
4) Besides, untrained teachers working in private educational
institutions in the state as well as in the neighbouring
states who were paid miserably low wages have improved professionally
by undergoing B.Ed. training through the DDE.
5) Likewise, M.Ed. course of the Directorate has enabled
a large number of students from within and outside the state
to enhance their professional skills and qualification.In
the current session the Directorate has introduced postgraduate
courses in Fisheries, Hindi and Urdu.
6) Overall enrolment of the Directorate has almost gone
upto 10,000/- the minimum level of enrolment required for
viability of a Correspondence Course Institute or Directorate
of Distance Education.
7) From last year, the Directorate is operating from its
new building. The DDE has constructed new complex from its
own savings. The new complex has enabled the DDE to initiate
measures for streamlining its functioning.The DDE has set
up study centres one each in the muffasil govt. degree colleges
at Rajouri, Doda, Poonch, Bhaderwah and Kathua, Kishtwar
and Udhampur. By these study centres, it is reaching the
unreached, i.e., socially and economically weaker people
of the remote and inaccessible areas of the state. By now,
the DDE has converted about 40% of study materials of its
courses into self-instructional format.
8) Preparation of self-instructional materials is essential
for up gradation of correspondence courses to distance mode
of education.
9) Preparations are also under way to adopt multi media
instructional pattern for the courses of the DDE. Last year
the DDE successfully hosted 9th Annual Conference of the
Indian Distance Education Association with the collaboration
of Commonwealth of Learning.
