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.
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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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