Teacher’s professional training ensures success of distance education: VC

The Vice Chancellor of Allama Iqbal Open University(AIOU), Prof. Dr Nasir Mahmood stated that continuous professional training of teachers is indispensable for maintaining and further improving quality in the distance education system.
Skills-based training workshops play a key role in aligning faculty members with modern teaching requirements and emerging educational trends.
He expressed these views while addressing the closing ceremony of a three-day training workshop on distance education organized for new faculty members by the Department of Distance, Non-Formal and Continuing Education.
The workshop aimed to familiarize faculty members with new dimensions of distance education, effective teaching strategies and modern pedagogical methods.
Faculty members from various departments of the university participated actively and enthusiastically in the training program.
At the conclusion of the ceremony, the Vice Chancellor distributed certificates among the participants and resource persons and directed that such skills-based workshops be conducted regularly to further enhance academic standards.
On this occasion, Chairman of the Department, Dr. Muhammad Athar Hussain and the Workshop Coordinator, Dr Muhammad Ajmal Chaudhry thanked the Vice Chancellor for the successful organization of the workshop and appreciated the efforts of their team. They reaffirmed their commitment to organizing training workshops on course development skills in the near future.