ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Allama Iqbal Open University (AIOU) is establishing Computer Laboratories in its Regional Offices throughout the Country not only to achieve digitalization objective fully but also to provide technical support to those students who lack these facilities so that they can work in these laboratories to complete their academic tasks.
The University has also expedited efforts to establish its Television Channel which will be purely educational and non-commercial in nature. The University has already sought its approval from a competent authority.
The Television Channel will be highly effective in providing educational access to hundreds and thousands of AIOU students who are residing in distant geographical regions of the country which lack internet facilities.
The AIOU Television Channel was envisioned in the May 2019 project of automation of key academic, administrative, and financial processes of the University not only to make educational delivery effective but also to enhance University’s credibility.
The automation processes of the university will be completed by the end of July 2021 by incorporating the use of state-of-the-art and latest information and communication technology.
According to Professor Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum, these initiatives will be highly instrumental in enhancing the rate of literacy in the Country.
