Emphasize modular courses to make education relevant
The new technologies have invaded our lives in a big way and education needs to provide relevant courses that are more marketable. Sadly, our academic courses continue to be presented in isolated ways and appear to be fragmented and irrelevant. On the other hand many foreign courses are conducted in a modular way to link them to the needs of learners and their employability.
IN INDIA, we must make a shift towards modular courses keeping in view the modern employable skills for livelihood. In fact, a module is a complete learning unit related a study and training area with a well-defined content, skills and attitudes that are predetermined and validated outcomes with articulated ways and means of linking it to other modules. Consequently, different modules are built on a complete set of final outcomes of a complete modular programme and they can be linked together in different ways and orders. The basic module is generic and provides a solid foundation of basic content, skills and ideas for further development on which other modules are built and mutually linked.
It is the high time that the University Grants Commission,
Indira GandhiNational Open University and the National Institute of Open School start developing modular courses emphasizing built-in employable skills and fix implementation modalities for such courses. Even the existing institution may be given autonomy for developing, implementing and certifying the contextualized modular courses.
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