The award was shared between IGNOU and Indian School of Business, Hyderabad. According to the organisers, the award was given to these institutions for making learning more than a classroom experience.
Prof M Aslam, Vice-Chancellor, IGNOU and Prof Deepak Chandra, Deputy Dean, ISB, received the awards. Filmmaker Prakash Jha, who was one of the prominent speakers in the summit, distributed the awards to the winners.
Prof Aslam felt that this award showcases that the university is heading on the right track of quality education for all. This award will boost the university’s morale to achieve new heights.
He credited the award to all those who have built this university brick-by-brick over two-and-a-half decades. Emphasising upon the use of ICT in education, he underscored the interventions of the university in ICT in the form of open education resources, repository, online education through virtual environment and personal and flexi learning to reach the marginalised sections of the society. He averred that the 21st century will be shaped by ICT more than anything else.
According to him, IGNOU’s learners include school dropouts, teenagers forced into labour market, defense personnel and digital natives who prefer distance modality to the four walled regimen. IGNOU also caters to jail inmates with 59 study centres across the country. The university has more than 2.4 million students involving 48,000 teachers from conventional system to counsel them.
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