Delhi University’s School of Open learning (SOl) has crossed another level of excellence as its academic online content is being accessed by students and academia across the world. The website, which delivers study materials to the students taking degrees from the open learning facility of the university, has received numerous hits from countries like the USA, United Kingdom, United Arab Emirates and South Asian countries.
Director of SOl, Prof CS Dubey told The Pioneer that it was an overwhelming development that has been found through the upgradation of the website which records the graph of hits from other nations. “It does not only serve students across the world, but constant hits give an idea of the level of interest in the material. Through this we can upgrade the syllabus timely,” Dubey said.
According to last year’s data, Indian students have accessed the SOl database 1,61,857 times while 5,556 hits are from the US, 2,726 from Pakistan, 816 from Japan, 709 from Hong Kong, 601 hits from the United Kingdom, 618 from Malaysia and 570 from the UAE.
The SOl has increased the subject-wise data on its online facility. “We have been constantly updating the online material. The students have been benefitted to a great deal. Through the database, we can enhance the quality of the material for our students,” Dubey further added.