Distance Education for Rural Community Based Organizations: Correspondence Courses for Rural Cooperatives in Tanzania
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PCF1 // Distance education as a method of teaching, can be very effective to people who are at a distance and those who can not afford to leave their work and join schools. It is very useful for adults who still look after their children while studying. It is a solution to those people who can not trade off their life style with training because one can learn while working and earning money. Distance education is very useful for rural community organizations whose people are farmers and survive only by cultivating/ farming or looking after their farms as a means of their livelihood. // Moreover, distance education helps to promote farming skills for farmers who study while farming. It is indeed a right choice for farmers because it is flexible and allows one to study and at the same time work thus practice. // In this paper we are going to discuss how distance education has been able to improve farmers and peasants education levels and literacy in Tanzania. Moreover, we are going to see how correspondence courses have contributed to improved member education in cooperatives, with better cooperative knowledge, management and organization skills for farmers and keeping of records of their activities and enhancing their contributions in decision making in cooperative activities. //