Subject lectures of the Madhya Pradesh Bhoj Open University (MPBOU) will be soon available on special educational TV channels going to be launched by Ministry of Human Resources Development (MHRD) on Direct to Home (DTH) service. University has sent a proposal to MHRD in this regard.
MPBOU will be the first university in the State to provide the direct to home lectures in such a large scale. MPBOU Vice Chancellor Tariq Zafar, who is personally taking interest in the noble initiative, said that MPBOU already have more than 250 audio-visual lectures ready to be telecasted which were made under the EDUSAT programme.
He further said that university is preparing to start a common virtual cell under which students will be provided audio-visual lectures through DTH, EDUSAT (satellite) and Virtual Private Network (VPN).
EDUSAT and VPN technology were earlier used to provide audio-visual lectures and university still has sophisticated equipments like outdoor unit, video-audio mixer, recording studio intact for the purpose. He informed that a proposal has been sent to the DTH Committee MHRD approval.
In the proposal university has mentioned that it is prepared to launch audio-visual lectures on 22 subjects and have a team of 49 subject experts to guide in the process.
The university has support of Rajiv Gandhi Technological University (RGTU), Barkatullah University (BU), Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology (MANIT) and National Institute of Technical Teachers Training and Research (NITTTR) for course material. The university has also identified 40 centres in the State where these
programme will be initially launched, these centres are mostly in tribal regions of the state where it will cater the AV lecture facility to over 20,000 students.