The access to knowledge and skills to all people regardless of gender, age, race or location is enormously important. Education and training must be all-inclusive and reflect the vastly diversified present economy and ...

Increasingly, Distance Learning is becoming the medium of choice for education. Earlier, it was, to a great extent chosen out of compulsion due to various factors: geographical remoteness, professional commitments, lack ...

In the age of modern ICT, everybody wants to get information easily and quickly i.e. everybody wants to be updated with latest information. It is in fact the need of the society and especially the students who have to stand ...

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 ...

The University of the West Indies Open Campus is an amalgamation of the previous Office of the Board for Non-Campus Countries & Distance Education (BNNCDE), the School of Continuing Studies (SCS), the UWI Distance Education ...

It is also important to realize that distance teachers too need to undertake some changes to engage in new ways of teaching. They need to understand what is involved in distance learning and must themselves account for ...

Distance education in its organized form, is one of the path breaking innovations in the field of education of the Twentieth century. The period between “1960-1985” has witnessed remarkable growth of distance education all ...

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 ...

Open and Distance Learning (ODL) represents an approach that focuses opening access to education and training through ICTs. The benefits of ODL are freeing learners from the constraints of time and place and offering ...

Modern day learning experience has come a long way beyond pedagogical instructions and face to face interaction. As globalization advances, education is increasingly crossing borders of regions and nations. Educational ...