Jamia Hamdard
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There has been a significant growth in the area of open & distance education around the world. Open Distance Learning (ODL) mode of education has been recognized as one of the effective tools of educationally empowering those sections of the society, which could not afford to join the formal on-campus education due to various reasons. As a result it is an effective tool for non-formal education.  Presently, ODL institutions are not only imparting education as an alternative to the formal system but also making effective contribution in areas, such as vocational and technical education and even in high technology based education. The distance education also has potential to reach to un-reached and even marginalized and excluded groups of the society such as tribal populations and Muslim women. Open and distance education provides an opportunity to students for acquiring new knowledge and skills that are needed for their development. Jamia Hamdard being in education for a long time has taken initiatives to offer an opportunity to those students who are unable to get on-campus education and those who have limited access to educational resources.

The Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) of Jamia Hamdard was established in 2004 to promote education through open and distance learning system. Its flexible and innovative methods of education to ensure ‘independent learning’ to anyone, anytime and anywhere. ODL programmes of Jamia Hamdard also envisage to provide an opportunity to girls from Muslim community, who by and large have been left out by the national educational endeavors.

Jamia Hamdard’s study programmes under ODL are selective and customized to meet the learning requirements of knowledge seekers as well as to ensure that they learn at their own pace and convenience. Within the financial means of University, due care has been taken to keep the cost of education low, so that educationally backward sections can take advantage of University’s programmes through ODL mode. This goal in view, the DODL of Jamia Hamdard has made concerted efforts to offer professional and job oriented courses with regular updates of curricula and study material and introduction of tools of Information Technology.

Jamia Hamdard offer education through ODL mode in few selected programmes where University has tremendous strength. The courses are designed and developed with views to prepare a cadre of manpower with requisite knowledge and professional skills so that they can effectively function in the globalised economy, which is no doubt highly knowledge intensive. In its endeavors to cater for education and training needs of different socio-economic groups, the programmes have been carefully identified to fill the contemporary gaps in available courses offered by other institutions and the market demand, and/or to provide cost-effective options to the weaker sections of the society, who are unable to reap the benefit of development due to lack of adequate education, training and skills.

Without sacrificing the quality of education, the cost of education is kept very low so that the economically deprived sections may afford to pay fees and benefit from the educational opportunity provided at the doorsteps.

Following courses are offered through distance mode: