Monday, January 4, 2010

What is Distance Education?

It is also known as learning through correspondence course. Students taking up any course in distance education, receive the study materials, worksheets and assignments at home by paying fees as university or institute decides for the services. Representatives of distance education programme dispatch assignments to distant learners from time to time and instruct them to complete the assignments and submit to the concerned department according to a fixed time schedule.

Without doubt, in regular class room education, students learn thoroughly. But distance education too utilizes a combination of audio visual lecturers, objective examinations, planned personal contact programmes with human instructors. This is not inferior to regular teaching programmes, provided you devote your time and participate in the interactive learning with your educators.

At present, most distance mode universities provide multimedia facilities at their nodal centers and television or radio links. They have established their regional centers all over the country to help the candidates coming from remote locations to co-ordinate with their course instructors.

Distance education programmes are as good as any other. The validity of the degree obtained through correspondence is the same as that of a regular degree. Degrees through correspondence from any recognized university are eligible for any government job. If distance education is undertaken along with some practical work experience, it helps the learners in finding better jobs and fills in the gap for the potential employer as well.

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