India currently suffers from an estimated 1.33 million shortfall in teachers and many existing teachers are unqualified, resulting in inadequate access to education and poor standards of learning for those already in the ...

The practice of education is changing globally in response to education for all (EFA) and the millennium development goals (MDG). Open educational resources (OER) offer viable opportunity as a tool to enable realistic ...

Open, Distant and Flexible Learning (ODFL) in most commonwealth nations provide much needed education to the teeming population of qualified citizenry who are not able to gain admission to full time tertiary education ...

This study seeks to study the level of awareness, sensitivity, attitude and concern of teachers of various schools towards environment, who are pursuing B.Ed form IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) and enrolled ...

The Education for All (EFA) movement is a global commitment to provide quality basic education for all children, youth and adults. Hence, present generation of in-service teachers need to be versatile in assessment literacy ...

Competence in the integration of technology in curriculum and instruction is fundamental for the professional instructional leader. In regard to the qualitative and quantitative needs of Africa to achieve the EFA goals by ...

Distance education has been viewed internationally as a viable option for improving access to, and the equity and quality of basic education in various settings (McQuaide, 2009). It is a way to educate people who would ...

I also read Norton’s (2000) longitudinal case study of immigrant women learning English in Canada in which she argues that it is important to consider the ‘investment’ of these women in language learning: … when language ...

The B.Ed Programme of IGNOU offered through the Distance Learning Mode from the year 2000 has been the boon in developing human resources involved in academic transactions at the School level. Accessibility to the programme ...

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) for teacher training and preparation is generally regarded as a means of improving both, the shortage of qualified teachers and the quality of instruction in primary schools. While there ...