Center For Distance & Online Education (CDOE), Utkal University

To be a Centre of excellence in Higher Education with a focus on innovative teaching, learning, research, consultancy and extension activities for building a creative, enlightened and productive civil society. To provide the students with knowledge, society. To provide the students with knowledge, skills, values and sensitivity necessary for successful citizenship. To create and disseminate knowledge through interdisciplinary research and creative inquiry in developing a meaningful and sustainable society. To equip the students with problem solving, leadership and teamwork skills and inculcating a sense of commitment to quality, ethical behavior and respect for others. To provide a platform for free flow of ideas where discovery and creativity will foster professional growth and will usher in a better world. To ensure academic excellence in this dynamic knowledge economy by exposing the students to new ideas, new ways of understanding, new ways of knowing in their journey of intellectual transformation. To provide opportunity to those who are unable to pursue Higher Education in the conventional mode of teaching. To provide equal opportunity for Higher Education through distance mode. To provide opportunity to adult and working population to upgrade their knowledge, skill and qualifications and to advance their career perspective. To provide flexibility in enrolment in terms of age, choice of courses, methods of learning and appearance at examinations etc. To complement and supplement the Higher Education system of the state. To promote research and creation, dispersion and advancement of knowledge. To enable learners to overcome barriers: geographical, socio-economic and gender etc. To promote continuing education. To promote the cause of quality manpower under the faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Management and Business Studies and IT, Computer Science and Application. ...view more