About Us
Welcome to Directorate Of Distance Education
Realizing the important role of education in the overall national development, the Maharshi Dayanand University, Rohtak established a Correspondence cell in 1988 for imparting education through “Correspondence Course” leading to the award of B.Ed. degree. The University, with the passage of time and development of technology and requirement of Society, upgraded the Correspondence Cell to the level of Directorate and expanded tremendously to offer a wide spectrum of courses through a network of Study Centers. With the amendment in the Maharshi Dayanand University Act in the year 2012, the Directorate restricted delivery of its courses to distance learners from its Headquarters and is providing opportunities for higher education to a large segment of population especially disadvantaged groups living in remote and rural areas, housewives and working people.
Directorate of Distance Education and Online Education
The Directorate of Distance Education is creating, preserving, and disseminating knowledge to build competitive capability for holistic development of man and society. The various programmes offered by the Directorate of Distance Education range from conventional to professional as per needs of the area and employment opportunities available in the country. In order to meet growing demand of open and distance learning, the DDE has acquired resources for further access to rural areas. The DDE is contributing significantly towards achieving the national objective of providing quality education to one and all with a motto to reach the unreached by offering useful distance education programmes to learners belonging to different parts of the State/Country.
The Directorate of Distance Education is offering following popular Undergraduate/Postgraduate programmes through Open and Distance Learning Mode and Online Mode:
Open and Distance Learning Programmes:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Master of Arts (Hindi)
- Master of Arts (English)
- Master of Arts (Sanskrit)
- Master of Arts (Economics)
- Master of Arts (Public Administration)
- Master of Arts (Political Science)
- Master of Arts (History)
- Master of Arts (Journalism and Mass Communication)
- Master of Library and Information Sciences
- Master of Commerce
- Master of Science (Mathematics)
Online Programmes:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Master of Commerce (M.Com)
- Master of Science (Mathematics)
- Master of Arts (Hindi)
- Master of Arts (Political Science)
- Master of Arts (History)
- Master of Arts (Economics)
- Master of Arts (Public Administration)
All the programmes are based on carefully designed curriculum, well planned teaching learning strategies, effective student support system for an effective functioning and fair examination and valuation system. Online counselling has been provided to all the students during COVID-19 Pandemic period and also provided Online learning resources.
In addition, the Directorate of Distance Education is also taking steps for exploring the possibilities to offer some new Certificate/Diploma programmes through Online mode in accordance with the DEB (UGC) Regulations, 2020.
The DDE is providing full support and service to its students, ensuring removal of difficulties at personal level so that the participation of the students in the programmes offered by the DDE becomes really effective and meaningful.
The Directorate of Distance Education has evolved the concept of “Students Support Services Camps (SSSCs)” to help and groom the distance learners in several ways. Student Support Service in open and distance learning system is quite different from other services. These services are not only confined to interactive counselling or solving the learner’s problems but also include to promote distance learning to address the issue of continuous upgradation of skills so as to produce manpower resources of the kind and the number required by society, to fulfill the expectations indicated in the National Education Policy-2020. In addition to the services already mentioned, the focus of the educators is also on learners’ personality development, inculcating soft-skills, career counselling & guidance and community education. Further, the SSSCs are aimed to facilitate learning, counselling and to solve the problems of the distance learners. Through SSSCs the learners get an opportunity to interact with the counsellors and the peer group.
