A two days State Level Workshop for “Writing for the Distance Learner- A Workshop on Development of SLMs in ODL” was organized at IDE, Rajiv Gandhi University by the Institute of Distance Education on 26-27 March 2012. The training program targeted to give an introduction and orientation to all Resource Persons of the IDE in preparing study material in the distance mode.

Participants varied from faculty members in Colleges and Research Scholars. The workshop was inaugurated by Prof. Tamo Mibang, Hon’ble Vice Chancellor. In his inaugural address he expressed how important it was to ‘not just share but share with effectiveness’.

Prof. C. R. K. Murthy and Prof. Madhu Parhar, from STRIDE were the invited Resource Persons. The workshop was designed to be activity oriented.

The inaugural session was followed by technical sessions, over the two days, as below:

Technical Session I:“ Growth of Distance Education”, (Prof. C. R. K. Murthy and Prof. Madhu Parhar)

Technical Session II: “Instructional Design for Self Learning Material”, (Prof. Madhu Parhar)

Technical Session III:“ “Structure of Unit (Structure, Introduction, Objectives): Group Work”, (Moyir Riba, Assistant Professor, IDE, RGU)

Technical Session IV: “Content, Intext Questions, Activities (Group work)”, (Moyir Riba, Assistant Professor, IDE, RGU)

In the valedictory session, along with the guests, the participants expressed their problems related to their experiences in ODL. The participants were given participation certificates as well.