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Distance Learning Programs

Education and learning is a never-ending process with diverse approaches. One can achieve education through various full time courses, distance learning programs and corresponding courses. Distance learning program is the most demanding approach towards education that can achieved without any break in the career.

Distance learning is popularly known as open education and is defined as a way of learning from remote location and flexible time. This kind of learning is attributed with various features like electronic classrooms, computer aided instructions and audio-visual communications.

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Online Education in Developing Countries

What we see up-and-coming is a society of Open and Distance Learning Institutions with a strong association among themselves. Sometimes this collaboration involves the exchange of course materials, and some form of cross licensing and credit transfer. The delivery is becoming increasingly electronic, and we should now view these educational systems as information technology systems.

Will these developments serve the interests of developing countries? There is clearly much need for caution. We need to moderate the developments reported above with concerns for access to the education both in terms of the students’ own prior knowledge and cultural perspectives, and in terms of access to the technology through which to access the education. We also need to be concerned about the impact upon the local culture that may be matte by imported materials and the developed world’s culture that these embody.

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