According to Baumel (2002), “20 percent of school age kids are poor readers and remain that way through their lifetime”. It has been proved repeatedly that reading is a language-based skill. Poor reading skills thus ...

Interests on access to open learning, some tangential while others significant, have surfaced as the shared agenda of much debate in the educational community. This emergence of current technologies possesses unimaginable ...

The primary theme of this study was to examine the perceptions of the secondary and senior higher secondary students’ parents, regarding the social acceptability of ODL schooling as well as conventional schooling. Social ...

Open & Distance Learning as a strategy for reaching carers is a neglected area. Parents & carers are typically in long term contact with children. If they can be helped to acquire needed information and skills, we can ...

The use of modern technological tools, also known as e-technology, in open learning is advocated on many strong grounds : wider and faster access to the learners, cost-effectiveness, better impact due to audio-visual ...

The dramatic changes in the information and communication technologies (ICTs) over the last few decades have had significant implications for new teaching and learning approaches. Modern educational technologies offer ...

The Faculty of Education of the Open University of Sri Lanka has incorporated interactive techniques such as interactive day schools and assignments to the teaching-learning process of a teacher education programme ...

In their endeavour for “reaching the unreached” and human resource development, the developing countries are up scaling their Open Schooling programmes; thus providing appropriate responses to the challenges of number, ...

Even in the beginning of the 21st Century the most important stumbling block in the way to rapid socio-economic development in the developing countries like India, is undoubtedly the illiteracy in general and the ...

In Sri Lanka, women’s representation in total undergraduate enrolment increased from 47.7 % in 1978 to 54.4 % in 2006. However, women’s representation varies in different disciplines of study. In 2005/06 the percentage ...