he School of Education Technology, Jadhavpur University, has launched its first Multimodal Digital Distance Education programme in partnership with CMC Ltd and the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing.
Asok Nath Basu, vice chancellor, Jadhavpur University, said MDDE was a pilot project and the first of its kind in the country. "The two conventional mode of courses are face-to-face or correspondence. MDDE, a pioneering course, would be an integration of several modes."
SET offers two courses under the MDDE programme -- Post Graduate Diploma in Multimedia and Web Technology and M Tech IT (Courseware Engineering).
The total number of seats allotted for the courses would be 180 and 50 respectively.
The mode of dissemination would consist of instruction material in printed form, audio synchronised lectures in interactive compact disc format, video conferencing and lab and project work at the work centre and workshop.
CDAC and CMC, the distance education partners, would provide the infrastructure as well as training to the students as per the guidelines set by Jadhavpur University, said Saibal Ghosh, vice president, CMC Ltd.
Kalyankumar Datta, director, SET, said students would be allocated programme partners.
"[These] Partners will take 40 students for the MTech IT course and 160 students for PGDMWT course and they will retain 50 percent of the course fees. The rest shall go to the university," said Datta.
The fees for each semester have been set at Rs 12,000.
MDDE has been an outcome of the initial funding provided by ministry of communication and information technology, government of India, to Jadhavpur University. The aim of this funding was the research and development of MDDE in IT and other critical technologies for starting IT-enabled distance education for technical education at the post-graduate level in 2002.
SET also plans to launch the Master of Engineering in Software Engineering under the MDDE programme.
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