{"id":44419,"date":"2018-01-15T16:41:17","date_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44419"},"modified":"2018-01-15T16:41:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-15T11:41:17","slug":"aiou-announces-e-learning-support-to-its-m-phil-and-ph-d-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=44419","title":{"rendered":"AIOU announces e-learning support to its M.Phil and Ph.D students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ISLAMABAD Jan 15 (TNS):<\/strong> Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has announced providing e-learning support to its M.Phil and Ph.D students.<\/p>\n<p>Initially, over thirty programs have been put on E-learning system. This turns the University&#8217;s distance learning programs into modern technology based e-learning mode.<\/p>\n<p>The move is a major development towards transformation of AIOU into Electronic University in a gradual process, as per the vision of the Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Shahid Siddiqui.<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of University E-Learning department Dr. Moiz Uddin Siddiqui, University\u2019s technology development plan was being implemented through the smart use of Information and Communication Technology.<\/p>\n<p>The Vice Chancellor has recently taken several initiatives to promote online education, which is in line with the prevailing international practices.<\/p>\n<p>While presiding over a briefing session on E-learning education, Dr. Shahid Siddiqui said that the University was trying to provide most comfortable mode of education to its students. This is a wonderful development in the 43-year history of AIOU, he added.<\/p>\n<p>With this new development, the Learning Management System (LMS) has been configured to execute online activities among students and tutors.<\/p>\n<p>LMS is an application programs which provides an infrastructure for the delivery and management of learning contents.<\/p>\n<p>The university has also started providing training to students and tutors on using LMS and actively participates in online activities.<\/p>\n<p>Special training manuals based on wysiwyg (What You See is What You Get) have been developed.<\/p>\n<p>Novice teachers and students could learn LMS activities by just reading and executing these dry lab manuals.<\/p>\n<p>Through this E-learning program, the students would be able interact with their teachers, through the use of modern distance learning tools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD Jan 15 (TNS): Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) has announced providing e-learning support to its M.Phil and Ph.D students. Initially, over thirty programs have been put on E-learning system. This turns the University&#8217;s distance learning programs into modern technology based e-learning mode. The move is a major development towards transformation of AIOU into Electronic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16993,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,23],"tags":[318,118,589],"class_list":["post-44419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad","category-national","tag-aiou","tag-islamabad","tag-national"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44420,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44419\/revisions\/44420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16993"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}