Learners in a distance education system need support both related to academic course work and non academic issues. However the areas where the distance between the institution and the learner seems the widest is that of ...

The Centre for Open and Lifelong Learning (COLL), Polytechnic of Namibia (PoN) is responsible for coordinating and administrating the institute’s distance education programmes. Of recent, COLL has taken on the responsibility ...

Distance learning (DL) is back in vogue in the UK. It is out of the doldrums in terms of institutional and national interest, which is where it has been for a while. I mean DL, not e –learning or flexible learning or open ...

There has been an increase in the use of Web-based ‘collaborationware’ in recent years. These web 2.0 applications in particular wikis, blogs, podcasts and facebook are being adopted by many educational institutions. These ...

Based on a set of exploratory studies on the cardinals of teaching-learning process in the courses of statistics in distance education system, the paper attempts to put forth a case for reorienting instructional process ...

In this context it is an urgent need to have a common, quality assurance framework and an international evaluation process for quality assurance in distance higher education including procedures for quality audits, evaluation, ...

Quality is one of the main concerns among institutions and stakeholders today especially those involved in open and distance learning (ODL). This study sought to examine staff related factors contributing to quality in the ...

India is trying to achieve complete literacy through Sarv Siksha Abhiyaan programme (http://ssa.nic.in/). This involves teaching each and every child in all the parts of the country. The success of the literacy programme ...

UNISWA students doing the B.A. degree in Humanities, which is offered in both the conventional and the distance education mode, proceed to become high school teachers in the country. As the quality of education that these ...

The main aim of this paper is to find out most appropriate strategy for producing the learning materials which is feasible for the JSC program. The specific objectives of the current research are: • to analyze the attitude ...