ROLE OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE JOURNEY OF DISTANCE EDUCATION
This article traces the developments in distance education right from correspondence mode to the present day of flexible learning in the World in general and in the India in particular and how the technology has always been pivotal to its attainment as an alternative but also cost effective, equitable as well as accessible mode of the higher learning to one and all. An analysis of some issues and concerns related to its functioning and the success of distance education in the Indian contexts is also done.
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A small beginning but an effective growth :
Distance Education making a beginning in the form of Correspondence Education in UK since 1840 by Issac Pitman (Moore and Greg 2005) has traveled a long journey. Since then, there are more than 1133 institutions offering 3900 courses through distance education in more than 103 countries (Srivastava & Reddy, 1998). And in this journey, the technology has been one of the internal components in its path, which not only made it popular for higher education but also at the school, vocational and technical level. Another reason of its mass acceptability among aspirants of education seekers, is its mode of delivery, which although started with simple form of inflexible mode to the web based learning for any time, any place and for anyone. So, an evolution of an inflexible learning to the flexible learning of 24x7 pattern happened in its course of journey.In India, the development of distance education is quite late in comparison of west. The first ever correspondence course in India was introduced in 1962 by the Delhi U...........
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A small beginning but an effective growth :
Distance Education making a beginning in the form of Correspondence Education in UK since 1840 by Issac Pitman (Moore and Greg 2005) has traveled a long journey. Since then, there are more than 1133 institutions offering 3900 courses through distance education in more than 103 countries (Srivastava & Reddy, 1998). And in this journey, the technology has been one of the internal components in its path, which not only made it popular for higher education but also at the school, vocational and technical level. Another reason of its mass acceptability among aspirants of education seekers, is its mode of delivery, which although started with simple form of inflexible mode to the web based learning for any time, any place and for anyone. So, an evolution of an inflexible learning to the flexible learning of 24x7 pattern happened in its course of journey.In India, the development of distance education is quite late in comparison of west. The first ever correspondence course in India was introduced in 1962 by the Delhi U...........
2 comments:
Sir,
Iam very weak in englis ,so i ask u to post me this presentation as Iamteaching course throgh the distance instruction.
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