About YCMOU
Mission
YCMOU's mission is to become a mass university to facilitate ‘education for all’
To attain this, YCMOU intends to use open and flexi-learning approaches, local language, and information & communication technology. To fulfill community’s academic aspirations, needs and pursuits in various streams of liberal, technical and professional education.
Establishment & Recognition
The Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University (YCMOU) was established in July 1989 by Act XX- (1989) of the Maharashtra State Legislature. It is the Fifth Open University in the country. The jurisdiction of this university, originally for the State of Maharashtra, has now been extended beyond this State and the university can now operate anywhere across the globe. The YCMOU has been recognized under section 12 (B) of the University Grants Commission Act, 1956.
Objectives
To make higher, vocational and technical education available to large sections of the population. To give special attention to the needs of the disadvantaged groups, in particular, people in rural areas and women. To relate all courses to the developmental needs of individuals, institutions and the State. To provide an innovative, flexible and open system of education by using distance learning methodology and by applying modern communication technologies in education. To provide continuing adult and extension education. Special attention to be paid to retraining adults in new skills to enable them to adjust to a changing technological environment.To provide opportunities in post-graduate studies and research in all fields of knowledge, especially in educational technology, distance education and development communication.
Salient Features
- Programmes and activities geared towards becoming a ‘mass varsity’.
- Emphasis on imparting vocational / technical skills.
- Use of latest advances in Information and Communication technologies.
- Relaxed entry rules, flexibility in course - combinations and credit transfer facilities.
- Scientific system of Student Evaluation.
- Special attention to Quality.
Global Outreach
About Open & Distance Learning (ODL) Alternative learning systems are essential since the conventional classroom education system alone cannot achieve the goal of education for all. The ODL approach has come a long way from the old model of correspondence courses and distance learning. We now talk of open learning; flexi learning and now the ICT based learning (virtual learning). The ODL is essentially a student-centric approach rather than a teachercentric one. YCMOU’s motto of Dnyanganga Gharoghari (Taking the Ganga of knowledge to every home) is an apt statement of ODL. Education on demand, learning while working, need based and feasibility-based learning are the essentials of ODL. This enables optimal use of existing educational resources, and saving on costs and time. ODL reduces unit costs of education without compromising quality. Countries such as India will be able to make substantial gains from ODL in its pursuit of ‘education for all’. |
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