The Coronavirus pandemic that took the world by storm in 2020 has turned everything upside down and students have been facing so many issues. To make the enrolment of the students to various courses offered by TNOU or Tamil Nadu Open University easier, TNOU has decided to create an end-to-end integrated learning system with mobile applications. This would provide a one stop solution for the students. Hereafter, mobile application would be sufficient for the students to enrol in various courses offered by TNOU.
The sensational piece of information is that all the services of TNOU would be brought under one umbrella that is from taking admission to getting access to the study materials etc.
Mr. Pathasarathy, vice-chancellor of TNOU pointed out that the work on mobile application has been going well now and the app would be launched in April or May. Once when the app gets launched, rural students would get superb benefits as the university’s programmes would be easily available for these students.
The demand for distance education has become more now than in the past. For the 2021-22 academic years, TNOU has witnessed a record number of enrolments. As many as 17323 students were enrolled by TNOU for this academic year. This is higher than its pre-Covid admission numbers.
It must not be forgotten that for the 2019-20 academic year enrolment number stood at 13684 in TNOU and for 2020-21 academic year it was 14982.ThisTNOU has been able to attract more students now because of factors like launch of new courses, revamped syllabus and better awareness about various programme offered etc. In future, the mobile application would further enhance the reach of online admissions (especially for female students) that began in 2018.
Information collected is that in the academic year 2021-22 atleast 2003 female students have taken admission for master’s degree courses in TNOU against 1459 male students.