IGNOU PhD Management

IGNOU’s learning delivery infrastructure is the most extensive and multi-modal of any Indian university designed to reach students regardless of location, bandwidth, age, disability, or prior educational experience.

1) Self-Learning Materials (SLMs) – SLMs for each course are written by subject experts, peer-reviewed, and updated regularly. Print SLMs are dispatched to registered students’ addresses. Digital SLMs are freely available to all users. IGNOU students and the general public on eGyanKosh (egyankosh.ac.in), India’s largest national digital repository for ODL study materials. Audiobooks are now available for management course SLMs. Promotional and learning materials are recorded in 23 regional languages for MBA and other programmes.

2) eGyanKosh – eGyanKosh (egyankosh.ac.in) is IGNOU’s national digital repository hosting SLMs, audio-video content, digital lectures, project reports, and research publications for all IGNOU programmes. Access is free and open to the public making IGNOU’s educational content a global public good accessible to anyone with internet access, not just enrolled students.

3) IGNOU Own LMS (Learning Management System) – IGNOU’s Centre for Online Education (COE) operates its own LMS for the 45 fully online academic programmes delivered through ignouiop.samarth.edu.in. The LMS provides: video lectures, recorded classes, discussion forums, assignment submission, quiz-based assessment, grade management, and student-teacher interaction. The COE vision is to make IGNOU a global leader in digital learning aligning with national digital initiatives (Digital India, NEP 2020) to provide learning anytime, anywhere.

4) Gyan Darshan – Gyan Darshan is IGNOU’s dedicated educational television infrastructure with four 24-hour channels broadcast from the audio-video production studios at IGNOU’s Maidan Garhi HQ. Content covers curriculum subjects, skill development, women’s empowerment, sustainable living, career guidance, science and technology, and cultural programming. The channels are accessible via DTH and cable across India reaching students in areas with no or intermittent internet.

5) Gyan Vani – Gyan Vani is IGNOU’s FM radio education network 26 channels across India broadcasting educational content for curriculum subjects and general knowledge. Radio reaches students in the most remote areas of India (including tribal areas, deserts, mountains, and islands) where internet infrastructure is absent and television reception is poor. This remains a meaningful delivery channel for India’s hundreds of millions of rural learners.

6) SWAYAM and SWAYAM PRABHA– IGNOU hosts multiple courses on SWAYAM (Study Webs of Active Learning for Young Aspiring Minds). India’s national MOOC platform and broadcasts on SWAYAM PRABHA educational channels. IGNOU students can use SWAYAM credits toward their programme completion under NEP 2020’s credit transfer and ABC (Academic Bank of Credits) provisions.

7) SAKSHAT Portal– The SAKSHAT portal (launched 2006 by President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam) provides a one-stop knowledge access platform for IGNOU students resources, links to SLMs, video content, and subject-specific digital materials.

8) Samarth Portal – All IGNOU admissions, re-registrations, exam form submissions, assignment status checks, grade card downloads, and fee payments are managed through the Samarth portal: ignouadmission.samarth.edu.in (ODL) and ignouiop.samarth.edu.in (Online). Students can track admission status, download study material dispatch updates, and manage all academic records digitally.

9) Study Centres –  The 2,667+ Learner Support Centres across India provide face-to-face academic counselling sessions typically held on weekends for working professionals. These sessions are conducted by academic counsellors from conventional colleges and universities (33,212 counsellors nationally) and supplement the self-study materials. Attendance at counselling sessions is generally not compulsory but strongly recommended for complex subjects requiring discussion and problem-solving.

10) Central Library- IGNOU’s Central Library in New Delhi holds the largest collection of books, journals, and materials in the field of Distance Education in India established in 1986. The collection includes regular academic volumes, distance education research journals, IGNOU SLMs in archive, PhD theses, and digital databases. Remote access is available to enrolled students. Regional Centres maintain smaller reference libraries for learners who visit in person.

11) Audio-Video Production Studios– IGNOU’s Maidan Garhi HQ houses high-quality audio and video recording studios used to produce all Gyan Darshan television content, Gyan Vani radio programmes, video lectures for online programmes, and promotional materials. These studios run production operations that support both the 4 TV 1) channels and the 26 radio stations in near-continuous content creation.

12) Term End Examination (TEE) Infrastructure– TEE is held twice yearly (June and December) at designated examination centres across all 69 Regional Centre jurisdictions. For the July 2025 session: 578 courses were available in Computer-Based Test (CBT) format; 69 courses in Hybrid mode. The move toward CBT reduces geographic barriers for examination access and accelerates result declaration.