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Thursday 13 October 2011

OPEN- DISTANCE-FLEXIBLE LEARNING: EXPERIMENTS OFDODL @ NIMS UNIVERSITY

Dear Prospective Distance Learner,

Greetings from NIMS University. We welcome your precious gesture as NIMS universe distance learner who is having all requisite skills and knowledge on the course/programme that you have taken up with our university. Hope to churn out the best out of you .Your versatile talents in all activities that are meant towards achieving success will broaden the path of your progress so as to make meaningful contributions towards development of knowledge.

Let's think for a while on followings:

1. How do I learn things easily?
2. Do I have uniformity in interest across all subjects/courses within a programme?
3. Do I have requisite knowledge on application of learning strategies?
4. Do I possess all required learning skills to pursue a distance programme?
5. Am I self-propelled?
6. Do I have sufficient awareness on application of ICT in facilitating knowledge in modern era?
7. Am I self-interested, self-regulated, self-governed, self-managed potential learner?
8. Do I need any human support to learn things better and further or feel own self as sufficient enough to undertake the journey towards exploring the knowledge oasis?

The above-cited eight questions if answered well by you then it is concluded that success is yours...........

Concept of Open, Distance, Flexible Learning is essentially a transactional pedagogy emerged out of De-schooling ideology which has given birth to  a variety of modalities to facilitate learning of learners to the utmost extent and simultaneously minimizing the human support in the form of an authentic source of information alike a teacher.

Of course, distance learners across globe are in double bind---- (1) Negotiating frequently with self-study process in the  absence of any interactive mode of learning ,(2) Lack of availability of adequate resources.
Many of the schools in our country never focus the promotion of self regulated learning strategies, eventually each learner( average) become victimized with  errors/lacunae and the gross errors has been paralyzing our society.

At NIMS, you find things differently . Programmes are designed to cater significantly to the needs of each individual learner so as to maintain uniformity in learning outcomes, democratic and transparent modes of delivery. We highly honour each distance learner because profile of yours is unique, superb and excellent that could enable you to connect to a career/jobs around. As a bonafide member of this learned global village, you should have confidence enough to compete at the global level .......

Lets precisely discuss the NIMS model which is titled as ODF Learning Model. Open, distance and flexible learning envisgaes openness in accessibility, retention and universal attainment. Distance is defined in terms of  a perceived  limit which begins the other side of door frame  of learners' home or right from the door steps of learners to any corner of the world. Distance is self-explanatory needs no further clarification. Flexibility in terms of course design, course knitting/development, concept mapping . Flexible learning may be interpreted as the utmost utilization of ICT ...........learning concepts at the mercy of learners...........  a model consisting of a variety of learner centric interactive instructional strategy.......... a pedagogy required for  learners across generations.......... to ensure learning beyond the limits.

We encourage our students to explore all available resources and utilize them in every possible directions to maximise learning outcomes.Therefore, we encourage you to view various blogs/e-forums pertaining NIMS Academic networking. Your identity and privacy is well maintained by us and we do respect the google blogspot to provide such a free of cost forum to interact with you virtually.

Wish you best wishes and a meaningful learning experiences at NIMS. Stay with us as long you aspire for the success.

Nims Academia 

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