Diploma in Elementary Education (DELED) Distance Education Eligibility, Colleges, Fees, NIOS, SCERT, Syllabus

D.EL.ED Distance Education: Quick Facts

• D.EL.ED Distance education is offered by a select few institutions in India. The course allows the students pursue a D.EL.ED course at  a lower fee.
• The course fee of D.EL.ED distance education ranges from INR 10,000-12,000.
• Distance D.EL.ED courses are pursued by working personnel who want to pursue a career in teaching and academics.
• Some of the subjects according to the D.EL.ED syllabus are Pedagogic process in Elementary Schools, Learning EVS at Primary Level, Community and Elementary Education and many more.

All About Distance D.EL.ED

Distance D.EL.ED or D.EL.ED Distance Education are offered by a select few colleges in India.The course allows the untrained teachers to complete the training required to teach at primary level.

The lesser amount of overhead cost due to lower tuition fee and zero accommodation cost allows the individuals to pursue the courses more easily.

Why Study D.EL.ED Distance Education?

Some of the reasons why doing D.EL.ED from Distance Education is a good idea is mentioned below: 

• Lower cost of buying books
• Enables the person to work and study at the same time. 
• Students have a lot of options for colleges while studying D.EL.ED Distance Education
• It helps a person to keep himself updated with the subject without leaving his job.

D.EL.ED Distance Education Eligibility

The eligibility criteria followed by colleges that offer D.EL.ED Distance Education are mentioned below:

• Candidates should have cleared 10+2 from a recognized board of education with 50% or higher marks (applicable only for general category students).
• Applicants from the reserved categories such as the SC, ST, and OBC are given 5% relaxation in the Higher Secondary Examination marks. In such cases, candidates are supposed to produce their reservation certificates along with the other required documents.

D.EL.ED Distance Education Colleges

Some Open and Distance Education facilities for D.EL.ED is mentioned below along with the description of the institute and fees:

NIOS (ODL)

Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) is specifically designed for in-service untrained teachers working in primary or upper primary schools. The Academic Department, NIOS on the initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Govt. of India has developed DELED keeping in view the NCF 2005, RTE 2009 and NCFTE 2010. 

The National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS) is an autonomous organization under the Government of India, Ministry of Human Resource Development(MHRD). It has around 2.02 million students at the secondary and senior secondary level. NIOS has a network with more than 15 Regional Centres, 2 Sub-Centres and about 5,000 study centres for its Academic and Vocational Programme within and outside the country. NIOS has been given the responsibility to train the untrained teachers at Elementary Level. It offers a very innovative and challenging Two-year Diploma in Elementary Education Programme.

SCERT (ODL)

Earlier Bihar used to face severe shortage of teachers. The shortage of teachers was critical and on average the schools used to open for fewer than 100 days in a year. To solve this problem recruitment of teachers was decentralized to Panchayati raj institutions and more than three lacs teachers were recruited as a result of the effort. At that time, too few trained teachers were available and thus two third of the recruited teachers were untrained. The untrained teachers were to be trained by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU). But D.EL.ED. the programme of IGNOU was not able to match the quality expectations of teacher training.  Therefore, the Government of Bihar had decided to develop its own mechanism to train the teacher and the accountability was given to SCERT, Bihar.

The purpose of the programme is to train a sufficient number of teachers to meet the need of the Right to Education Act - 2009. The training will aim to help teachers become more effective classroom practitioners, contribute to nation building and build an enriched infrastructure for the teachers that can also support other needs.