IGNOU had organized a 21-day refresher programme in distance education in New Delhi. On the valedictory of the refresher programme, M. Aslam, Vice Chancellor of IGNOU, said, “There is a need to overcome the barriers that have been created between the conventional and distance education systems, which are in fact complementary to each other,” reported the Hindu.

In fact, knowledge systems and management (KSM) comprises a range of systemic provisions and stabilization of the strategies to identify, create, represent and disseminate the experiences and knowledge generated thereof.

KSM efforts are meant to improve performance, encourage innovations, support research and dissemination of knowledge and lessons learned from the organizational efforts along with a continuous systemic improvement through formative organizational evaluation.