Academic Papers

The International conference on Life long learning was  organized by Directorate of Distance Education  and Department of  Education &  Training MANUU, Hyderabad in collaboration with All India Association of Educational Research (AIAER) from 25 th March to 27 th March 2017. Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) is a Central University established at National Level in 1998 by an act of Parliament to promote and develop the Urdu language and to impart vocational and technical Education in Urdu medium through conventional and distance modes. The All India Association for Educational Research (AIAER) addresses itself to the problems of research in education in general but more attention is given to such problems from Indian perspective.  The Vice Chancellor and the Pro-Vice Chancellor, MANUU were the Chief Patron and Patron of the Conference respectively. The Core Committee of the conference consisted of senior professors from Directorate of Distan...

Report of National Seminar on 'Urdu Language and Modern Technology - Issues and Prospects' by Dr. Aziz Sohail is available on, Blog Etemaad Daily

Gone are the days when teachers were teaching using chalk and talk method. Most of the teacher educators like us use to record in our observation diary that the student-teachers i.e. would be teachers in teacher education programmes make use of Daily Using Teaching Aids (DUTA). By this we meant that the student teachers were practicing their lessons using Chalk, Duster, Blackboard; and followed ‘Lecture Method’ for teaching and the primary source behind lesson preparation was generally textbook prescribed by the state board. Thus, teacher’s innovation was limited to ways of expression restricting to tone, gestures, drawing skills on the board with different colour chalk pieces and a rolling blackboard containing few assignment activities. If a teacher was not good at handwriting and/or drawing then a shabby picture was projected in front of the students that demoralised practicing teacher. Some of the creative and artistic teachers used to bring well prepared charts and models relev...