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        Book Review: Higher Education and Open Distance Learning Trajectory in India: Reflections of an Insider

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        Date
        2018-12
        Abstract
        The volume provides a critique on the functionalities of the ODL system, especially the open universities, with plausible arguments, and touches upon all the crucial aspects of the system broadly. The author takes advantage of being a witness of the system as an insider, which not only lets him analyse the strengths and weaknesses of the system minutely but also to present issue-based solutions with a futuristic approach focusing on the important aspects of relevance and quality. The aspect of quality flows as an under-current throughout the discussion by the author in the volume. The arguments framed by him are convincing and bring the readers on to the same page as the author. Though some typos can be noticed in the text here and there, the effort of the author in writing down the current and future scenario of the distance higher education system in India, with a focus on larger issues confronting the system, deserves appreciation. I do hope that the book will give food for thought to all – the policy makers, the practitioners and the novice users of the ODL system, i.e., the learners at large.
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        Pulist, S K

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        Gaskell, Anne

        Subject
        Open and Distance Learning (ODL)
        Quality Assurance
        Higher Education
        Series
        Journal of Learning for Development;vol. 5, no. 3
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        http://hdl.handle.net/11599/3106
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