WELCOME

NATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
COOPERATION AND
COLLABORATION OF STATE
BOARDS OF EDUCATION
AND OPEN SCHOOLS OF
INDIA
ORGANISED BY
NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OPEN
SCHOOLING(NIOS)
IN COLLABORATION WITH
COUNCIL OF BOARDS OF SCHOOL
EDUCATION IN INDIA (COBSE), NEW DELHI,
National Institute of Open Schooling
(NIOS)
(Largest Open Schooling System in the
World)

Presentation
By

M.C. Pant
Chairman, NIOS, New Delhi
Major challenges that India faces
today in the educational arena
 the challenge of numbers,
 the challenge of credibility, and
 the challenge of quality.
 Open and Distance learning
A new paradigm
From To
 Classroom  Anywhere
 Teacher Centric  Learner centric
 Teacher as Instructor  Teacher as facilitator
 Mainly oral  Technology aided
instructions instruction
 Fixed time  Anytime learning
 You learn what we  We offer what you
offer want to learn
 Education as one time  Education as life long
activity learning
 Open Learning System
Learning System

Curriculum Planning and Identification of Needs Certification

Design of Groups

Production of Multi Media Material

(MM) and Self Instructional Printed material
Material (SIM) Face-to-face counselling
Lab practicals/ training
Delivery A.V. Cassettes Exam. &
System Radio Broadcast Learner Evaluation
Telecast
Internet based delivery
Teleconferencing

Feedback

NIOS strives to establish an Open Schooling System that touches and changes life of
individuals and of society
 NIOS - Introduction
 Started as project on Open Schooling
under CBSE in 1978.
 Established in 1989 as National Open
School by MHRD, Govt. of India.
 In 1990 the Govt. of India through a
Gazette notification vested NOS with
the authority to examine and certify
learners registered with it up to Pre-
Degree level Courses.
 Re-christened as National Institute of
Open Schooling (NIOS) in July 2002.
 Mission of NIOS -
Highlights
 Providing quality education through
Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
mode
 Providing dynamic flexible system of
open schooling
 Acts as an apex resource centre in open
schooling
 Education and Training for Skill
upgradation and lifelong learning
 Need based Vocational Education for
marking students entrepreneurs and
not simply job seekers.
 Prioritised client groups viz., school
drop-outs and marginalized groups such
as rural youth, urban poor, girls and
women, scheduled castes, scheduled
tribes, backward classes, minorities,
differently abled and ex-servicemen

 Promotion of open schooling at

national and global level through
advocacy and consultancy
programmes,
 What does NIOS do?
The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)
provides opportunities to interested learners by
making available the following Courses/Programmes
of Study through open and distance learning (ODL)
mode.
 Open Basic Education (OBE)
Programme for Children (upto 14 years),
adolescents and adults (A,B & C Level
equivalent to class III, V, VIII of formal
School system)
 Secondary Education Course
 Senior Secondary Education Course
 Vocational Education
Courses/Programmes
 How NIOS works?
 Operates through 5 Departments and 11 Regional Centres all
over India
 and more than 2700 Accredited Institutions (Study Centres)
in India, Nepal, Middle East catering to about 13 lakhs
students.
 Learning Strategy includes printed self-learning material,
audio and video programmes, Personal Contact Programme
(PCP) and Tutor Marked Assignment (TMA).
 The curricular and life enrichment programmes are telecast
nationwide
 Enrichment material is inter alia provided to NIOS learners
through the half yearly Magazine “Open Learning”
 Admission once in a year during July – August through Study
Centres

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 programmes processing
committees of NIOS
 i. Open Schooling State Coordination Committee
(OSSCC) to identify educational needs of
state requiring inputs from NIOS
  ii.  Advisory Committee of the Regional Centres,
NIOS (RCAC)
  iii.     Advisory Boards of the Departments of NIOS
(DAB)
  iv.    Research Advisory Committee (RAC)
   v.   Academic Committee (AC)
 Special Features of NIOS Open
Learning Programme
 Self-paced learning
 Flexibility in choice of subjects
 One language is compulsory
 Credit accumulation
 Transfer of Credits facility from CBSE and State Open
Schools
 Examinations are held twice a year in March-May and
September-November
 The innovative “On Demand Examination System” (ODES) is
conducted at Secondary levels.
 International Centre for
Training in Open Schooling
1. Offered Internationally to any Graduate
2. Staff and Trainers engaged in implementation of Open Schooling
3. Use of ICT in Non-formal education
4. Integrated education of the child and adult through NGOs

Certificate in Advance Certificate Diploma in

Open Schooling in Open Schooling Open Schooling
(COS) (ACOS) (DOS)

Nature: Basic Advance Advance with hands on

Duration: 6 Months +3 Months + 3 Months
Eligibility: Graduate COS completion ACOS Completion
National Consortium for Open Schooling
Institutions State Open
working in Schools
OS/DE in other
countries
Existing State Open Schools
National Institute of
Open Schooling
Rajasthan
National Consortium
Madhya Pradesh
for Open Schooling
Haryana
1. National Institute of Open Schooling as Andhra Pradesh
Secretariate. Karnataka
2. Cooperation and interaction among NIOS and State Punjab
Open Schools. West Bengal
3. Expansion of activities pertaining to Open Learning Tamil Nadu
System.
4. Forum for exchange of ideas and resources among
Kerala
State Open Schools and Institutions working in Open Jammu & Kashmir
Schooling and Distance Education. Delhi
State Centre for Open Schooling
in Himachal Pradesh
 Vision of NIOS
 It provides a framework giving directions in which
research, development, training, programme
delivery, networking, extension and other
programmes of NIOS may be conducted in order
to best serve the object of implementing and
promoting the open schooling programme in the
country.
 The NIOS will work mainly as Resource
Organisation in open schooling at national and
international level with its usual programme
delivery role.
 Immediate Requirement for
promotion of Open schooling
 Setting up of State Open School in the
States that have not so far setup SOS.
 Boards of School Education may come
forward to setup SOS.
 Substantial up scaling of Existing 11 SOS.
 Promotion of Open Schooling at State level
for Regional Mediums.
 Centrally sponsored scheme for promotion
of Open Schooling in India by MHRD
 Planning commission may allocate sufficient
funds for promotion of Open Schooling.
 State Boards – SOSs Collaboration

 Adequate financial inputs to SOS for up

scaling of open schooling programme.
 Organisation of two examinations per year.
 Accumulation of credits.
 Transfer of Credits from Board to SOS.
 Development of Self Learning Materials in
Regional Language and their translation in
other languages accepted by the State.
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 State Boards – SOSs Collaboration

 Capacity building of personnel of SOS in the

context of:
 (i)  Conduct of PCPs
 (ii)  Preparation and operationalsiation of TMA
 (iii) Supervision of PCPs, TMAs and
examinations
 (iv) Setting of question papers and other
matters related to examinations.
  Monitoring of implementation of open
schooling programme.
 State Boards – NIOS Collaboration
 Identification of good Institutions particularly in areas
unserved so far through Open School for accreditation by
NIOS as its Study Centres.
 Identification of good Institutions for fixation of
Examination Centres of NIOS.
 Identification of Evaluators for evaluation of answer scripts.
The Boards may share with NIOS the lists of Examiners.
 Helping the NIOS in monitoring of conduct of examinations
through the officers and staff of the Board.
 Helping the NIOS for qualitative improvement of its open
schooling programme by way of sharing of expertise and
infrastructional facilities in open schooling programme delivery
and conduct of examinations.
 Helping the NIOS in preparation of materials in Regional
Languages and evaluation of answer scripts in Regional
Languages.
 State Boards – NIOS Collaboration

 Facilitating the NIOS in Transfer of Credits of its

Students from the State Boards from where they
appeared in Public Examinations but could not pass
in all
 The Boards of School Education may agree to
periodically look into the aspects related to the
standards and combinations of the courses of study
offered by NIOS for recognition of standards.
This would particularly help in vertical mobility of
NIOS students who may offer combination of
academic and vocational education courses at
Secondary and Senior Secondary stage.