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ICT in Open Distance Learning: Issues and Challenges
(2010-11)
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is playing a vital role in open and distance learning (ODL) to meet the requirements and expectations of the learners’ in large scale. It is difficult to perform the same using ...
ODL Programmes Through M-learning Technology
(2010-11)
M-Learning technologies are a perfect complement to Open and Distance Learning (ODL). It provides communication with learners beyond their traditional places of learning. It also supports face-to-face learning by reaching ...
Assessing the need for a quality framework designed specifically for managing the provision of online distance education in developing countries
(2010-11)
Quality assurance and quality improvement processes employ quality frameworks to ensure comprehensive coverage of the factors affecting students’ experiences of learning. The importance of quality frameworks has increased ...
Reaching the Unreached Women through Open and Distance Education: Implications for the Playwright
(2013-11)
Open and Distance Education is designed basically to provide accessible and affordable education to all especially those who were denied education earlier in life. Women and girls are mostly affected as evident in UNICEF’s ...
Mobile devices and the future of free education 2010
(2010-11)
The costs of education can never be totally eliminated, but present trends point to the possibility of an asymptotic curve, where the education costs will continue to approach zero, without ever quite reaching it. These ...
Open and Distance Learning and Feminism: Discourses of Access to Justice, Liberty and Livelihood
(2010-11)
Based on this narrative, this paper will examine how ODE’s policy of accessibility to education will facilitate women’s socio-economic development so as to meet the democratic aspiration of education for all by the year ...
Reflective teaching pedagogy as innovative approach in teacher education through open and distance learning
(2010-11)
Reflective teaching methodology involves questioning one own self to bring perfection by asking the following questions: • Which teaching model am I using? • How does it apply in specific teaching situations? • How well ...
Learner Support Services in Open and Distance Learning: Issues and Evidences from the State of Assam
(2010-11)
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 ...
Technological Educational Net: Exploring Access, Equity, Innovation and Pitfalls
(2013-11)
A nation that encourages incessant, affordable, and accessible educational development progressively grows and on the contrary a nation that dispels the latter mentioned remains inert. Bloom (n.d) noted that “education is ...
From the pigeon’s coo to Twitter’s tweet: An overview of communication messages through Online Social Networks (OSNs) in Open Distance Learning (ODL) with a special focus on Facebook
(2013-11)
The unprecedented rise of online social networks (OSNs) has completely erased the notion of pigeon as conveyors of messages which was widespread 2000 years ago. Indeed, the history of communication and its evolution have ...