Distance Learning: OPF launches e-learning facility

OPF is offering children of overseas Pakistanis living in remote areas of Pakistan to pursue best possible education

Minister of State for Overseas Pakistanis & Human Resource Development (OPs & HRD) Abdul Rehman Khan Kanju inaugurated Overseas Pakistanis Foundation’s (OPF) e-learning initiative that would connect students from the remote areas of Pakistan to highly qualified teachers through the use of Information Technology. OPF is offering the children of overseas Pakistanis living in remote areas of Pakistan to pursue the best possible education. OPF, in a landmark achievement, became the first ever public sector educational institution to incorporate technology by enabling teachers at one particular OPF institute to deliver lectures to a network of classrooms at other remotely located OPF institutes through e-learning. OPF Managing Director Habibur Rehman Gilani said the foundation’s main objective is to promote quality education among all OPF educational institutes. 

Published in The Express Tribune, March 30^th, 2018.