- • Nature, Objectives and Basic requirements
- • Learner's characteristics
- • Factors affecting teaching
- • Methods of teaching: Swayam, Swayam Prabha, MOOCs
Full Syllabus
Updated 2026- • Meaning, Types, and Characteristics
- • Positivism and Post-positivistic approach
- • Methods of Research
- • Thesis and Article writing
A passage of text be given. Questions be asked from the passage to be answered.
Study Unit 3- • Meaning, types and characteristics of communication
- • Effective communication: Verbal and Non-verbal
- • Barriers to effective communication
- • Mass-media and Society
- • Types of reasoning
- • Number series, Letter series, Codes and Relationships
- • Fraction, Time & Distance, Ratio, Proportion and Percentage
- • Profit and Loss, Interest and Discounting, Averages
- • Understanding the structure of arguments
- • Evaluating and distinguishing deductive and inductive reasoning
- • Venn diagram
- • Indian Logic: Means of knowledge
- • Sources, acquisition and classification of Data
- • Quantitative and Qualitative Data
- • Graphical representation (Bar-chart, Histograms, Pie-chart)
- • Data and Governance
- • General abbreviations and terminology
- • Basics of Internet, Intranet, E-mail, Audio and Video-conferencing
- • Digital initiatives in higher education
- • ICT and Governance
- • Development and environment: Millennium development and Sustainable development goals
- • Human and environment interaction
- • Environmental issues: Air, Water, Soil, Noise pollution
- • Natural hazards and disasters
- • Institutions of higher learning and education in ancient India
- • Evolution of higher learning and research in Post Independence India
- • Oriental, Conventional and Non-conventional learning programmes
- • Professional, Technical and Skill based education