Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Open and Distance Learning and its challenges in India

As traditional, campus based system facing many challenges, so it is good time for ODL system to make impact on general people.
In India there has been increase in students enrolling for distance learning courses. The admissions in regular University courses have become highly competititve due to limited number of seats available in specialized professional courses.
Distance Learning in India, was established primarily to provide distance education to less advantaged sections of the society. With education increasingly becoming the primary determinant of overall development in the emerging knowledge economy, Distance Learning Courses in India are increasingly becoming popular, considering the fact that it provides flexible admission timing and timing in completion of a programme as compared to traditional, campus based system. As the course fee of these courses is much lesser than the regular courses, distance-learning courses in India have also become popular in the rural areas. But these distance-learning courses are equally popular in the urban areas as the correspondence courses are helping them to improve their career options or engage in other important activities.
The availability of distance learning courses has assured that a person can pursue education from any state or university that he or she desires. Thus the distance learning institutes are serving a very important cause by enabling the less advantaged sections of the society to pursue higher education of their choice.

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