Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is going to introduce short-term audio-video-editing training courses from next semester to provide academic support to electronic media.

The books and study material have been prepared that would meet the contemporary needs of working journalists, this was stated at a briefing held by the AIOU Institute of Education Technology (IET), a press release said on Sunday.

AIOU Vice Chancellor Prof Dr Shahid Siddiqui, while presiding over the briefing session, hoped that such training courses would also help strengthen multimedia support to their students. There will be two separate courses, video editing and audio-recording editing, he said.

IET Director Mir Mukhtiar Hussain Talpur said that audio-video recording and production of various academic programmes were being enriched for academic use of their students.

It was decided that the academic programmes will be telecasted and broadcasted through the university’s web-TV and FM-radio on regular basis, he said.

Talpur said the university is also in process of launching its own education channel. The vice chancellor advised the department to make the audio-video recording available to the students on their demand. Quality education should be the hallmark of all educational programmes, he stressed. While appreciating department’s performance, he assured that the working conditions would be further improved enabling the staff members to deliver the best for students’ interest.

He said that the AIOU being a media-based university would focus more on online learning system with smart use of latest technology, particularly the IT softwares.