AIOU Establishes Virtual Teachers Training Academy Portal

The Allama Iqbal Open University has virtualized the Teacher Education with a modern and innovative technology to meet the needs of modern age for the professional training of the teachers. According to details, the AIOU has inaugurated a Virtual Teachers Training Academy Portal at Lahore Regional Center in collaboration with Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), and the non-profit corporation ALIGHT, Pakistan. The portal will be helpful for the online teacher training across the country.



While addressing to the inaugural ceremony of the portal the Vice Chancellor of AIOU Prof. Dr. Zia Ul-Qayyum said:

“Portal is a learning management system which includes content, quality videos, learning activities, assessment and feedback policy to achieve standard training performances of the teachers living across the country, especially the far-flung areas”

The Minister for Punjab Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education, Raja Rashid Hafeez was the chief guest of the ceremony. The Senior Education Advisor JICA-AQAL II, Abid Gill, Dr. Shafqat Ali of the National Commission for Human Development, the Deputy Chief of Party of ALIGHT Pakistan, Kamran Iftikhar Lone, Director Coordination and Follow-up AIOU, Raja Umer Younis, Secretary Literacy and Non-Formal Basic Education Department Punjab, Waqas Ali Mahmood, the Dean of the Faculty of Education AIOU, Prof. Dr. Nasir Mahmood and Dr. Zahid Majeed attended the inaugural ceremony.