Allama Iqbal Open University was established in Pakistan in 1974. During the last 30 years, the university has matured into a national university offering various programmes through non-formal education system throughout the country. The main objectives of the university as communicated in the act are to provide facilities to people who cannot leave jobs and home for their educational uplift. It offers a wide range of undergraduate, graduate, masters, MPhil and doctoral programmes in the area of teacher education, science, business management, languages, and computer science. The university has also developed a number of short term educational programmes. At present AIOU relies heavily on various types of available media to teach the students in an effective manner.