The Open University of Sri Lanka recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Dharmavahini Foundation to telecast educational material via satellite channel 72 of the Dialog Learn Television network.
Venerable Mettavihari Thera of the Dharmavahini Foundation and Professor Upali Vidanapathirana, the Vice Chancellor after signing the MOU expressed that high quality educational material would be made available to those people who do not have access to such information albeit they have an unquenchable thirst for new knowledge
This pioneering initiative therefore will open up an opportunity for those who watch Dharmavahini channel to have access to educational materials produced by the Faculties of Engineering Technology, Natural Sciences, Education and Humanities and Social Sciences free of additional cost. The programme is coordinated by the Centre for Educational Technology and Media (CETMe) of the Open University.
The prospective viewers are advised to tune in to Dialog Learn TV via channel 72 on Saturdays and Sundays both in the mornings (8.15 and 11.15 and evening at 3.15. Also a repeat telecast would be made at 10.15 pm for working adults who miss presentations during day time.
This MOU hence opens up a new chapter in widening access to high quality educational materials to cater to needs of school children, youth and adults alike. It is a project that will help transform Sri Lanka's vision of becoming a learning society into a reality in the near future. |
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