Skill Development of the youths and their Livelihood

By Dr. Ritimoni Bordoloi | Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Assam

Learners enrolled: 544

It is a 4 credit course at certificate level. The duration of the course is 12 weeks, to be completed within 3 months. Youths can join this course who have passed 10+2 examination. Besides, the course is open for the Life-long learners above the age 19 years.

The main objectives of the Course are:

To mobilize the capacity of the youths by updating their knowledge and equipping them with some locally relevant need based skills.
To generate awareness among the youths across the country on the current fields of employment and livelihood opportunities.
To encourage the youths for developing their capacity those who are willing to form some livelihood enterprises and also encourage the youths to become more productive.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Duration :	12 weeks
Category :	Multidisciplinary
Credit Points :	4
Level :	Certificate
Start Date :	01 Feb 2022
End Date :
Enrollment Ends :	15 Mar 2022
Exam Date :

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Course layout

S. No	Title of the Sessions	Weeks
1	Introduction to Skill Development	Week-1
2	How skill development is related to empowerment
3	Present status of livelihood opportunities in India
4	Youths and livelihood opportunities	Week-2
5	Skill development and employability
6	Recognition of prior Learning and skill development
7	Understanding NSQF	Week-3
8	Government’s initiatives for skill development courses and training
9	SDGs and Lifelong learning
10	Development and Training Institutes for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs)	Week-4
11	How to motivate the youths for capacity building?
12	Strategies for capacity building for entrepreneurship of the youths
13	Approaches of Skill development	Week-5
14	How to form Micro-finance for skill development of the youths
15	Life Skills for sustainable livelihood
16	Communication Skill
17	Success story of getting and providing livelihood at National level (SEWA, Ahmadabad)	Week-6
18	Success story of getting and providing livelihood at Regional level (Meira Paibi Movement)
19	Success story of getting and providing livelihood at state level (Success story of Sita Jakhala Dugdha Utpadak Samabai )
20	Education in the digital age	Week-7
21	Computer Literacy-I
22	Computer literacy-II
23	Training and capacity-I ( Adobe Photoshop)	Week-8
24	Training and capacity-II (Adobe Photoshop)
25	Governmental Schemes and programmes for skill development of the youths
26	Nature, Growth and Functions of MSME	Week-9
27	Role of financial Institutions in providing credits and other facilities
28	Packaging and Marketing Issues
29	Legal issues and Productions
30	Challenges and opportunities of skill development in India	Week-10
31	Role of the open universities for mobilising the skills of the youths
32	Basic training on making Ornaments
33	Basic training on making jute	Week-11
34	Basic training on making bamboo production
35	Basic training on repairing mobile
36	Basic training on Electrical appliances
37	Basic training on animal husbandry (pig)	Week-12
38	Basic training on animal husbandry (goat)
39	Basic training on dairy farming
40	Basic training on poultry farming

Books and references

Baker, E. L., & O’Neil, H. F., Jr. (2003). Technological fluency: Needed skills for the future. In H. F. O’Neil, Jr. & R. Perez (Eds.), Technology applications in education: A learning view. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Berson, M. J. (1996). Effectiveness of computer technology in social studies: A Review of the literature. Journal of Research on Computing in Education, 28(4), 486-98.

Jeff, Craig. (2012). Six Steps for Implementing 21st Century Skills. Onondaga-Cortland-Madison BOCES

Mohan B. Menon. (2014). Strategy for Skill Development through Open Schooling India, National Institute of Open Schooling, A-24-25, Institutional Area, Sector-62, Noida, U.P.

Mohd., Shoeb. (2020). Skill Development, Innovations and Entrepreneurship, Om Publications

Nair V.R.(2010). Life Skills Personality and Leadership. RGNIYD, Tamilnadu

Rameshwari, Pandya . (2016). Skill Development and Entrepreneurship in India, New Century Publications

Samuel Kai Wah Chu etal. (2017). 21st Century Skills Development through Inquiry- Based Learning, From Theory to Practice, Springer

Shipra, Vaidya.(2014). Developing Entrepreneurial Life Skills. Springer New Delhi

United Nations Children’s Fund. (2012). Global Evaluation of Life Skills Education Programmes Final Report. New York

Instructor bio

Dr. Ritimoni Bordoloi

Krishna Kanta Handiqui State Open University, Assam

Dr. Ritimoni Bordoloi, the course coordinator, has been serving as an Assistant Professor in the Discipline of Education at K.K. Handiqui State Open University, Assam, India since 2007. She did her PhD from Gauhati University on the topic-“Social Security and Women Empowerment”. Her research interests are in the areas of Gender Studies, Economics of Education, Political Sociology, open and distance education and so on. She has written number of research papers and articles in journals and books and presented her works in several National and International seminars and conferences. She has received the prestigious 2019 Emerald Literati Award for the paper “Transforming and empowering higher education through Open and Distance Learning in India” published in Asian Association of Open Universities Journal has been selected by the selection panel as Highly Commended. She has visited the University of Melbourne, Australia and Hanoi, Vietnam for presenting the research papers in international conferences. Besides, she also visited Korea National Open University (KNOU) as Visiting Scholar in 2019 under International Staff Exchange Programme of AAOU. In 2020, she received an international project grant from the Asian Association of Open University (Indonesia) as one of proponents for conducting the research on the topic-“MOOCs for Mobilising Higher Education in India.” Recently she has co-edited a book entitled “Open Higher Education in the 21st Century”, Published by NOVA Science Publisher, New York, USA.

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