Education Through Distance Learning

Education Through Distance Learning

Usha Albuquerque & Nidhi Prasad

Distance education institutes in India can broadly be divided into following categories:

Departments of Distance Education

Open Universities

Private institutions that offer distance learning programmes

Massive Open online course (MOOC)

Few Free E – Learning websites are:

*Coursera -www.coursera.org

*Edx- www.edx.org

*Saylor academy – www.saylor.org

*GCF learn free -www.gcflearnfree.org

*UDEMY – www.udemy.com.

HERE ARE SOME OF THE BEST DISTANCE LEARNING COLLEGES ACROSS INDIA

*Indira Gandhi National Open University or IGNOU - www.ignou.ac.in

*The School of Open Learning, formerly known as The School of Correspondence and Continuing Education, Delhi University -www.sol.du.ac.in

*Annamalai University –  www.annamalaiuniversity.ac.in

*Osmania University –  www.osmania.ac.in

*Manipal University -www.manipal.edu

*Sikkim Manipal University-www.smude.edu.in

*Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning-www.scdl.net

*Karnataka State Open University-www.karnatakastateopenuniversity.in

*ICFAI University-www.icfaiuniversity.in

*Dr. BR Ambedkar Open University (BRAOU)-www.dbraou.ac.in

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Quality and Excellence in Education

Quality and Excellence in Education

J.S.Rajput

(The author is former Director, NCERT,  New Delhi.)

The eternal instinct to explore, investigate, create, recreate and refine distinguishes the humankind from other species.  Sri Aurobindo elaborates it in life Divine: "The animal is satisfied with a modicum of necessity; the gods are content with their speldours. But man cannot rest permanently until he reaches some highest good. He is the greatest of living beings because he is the most discontented. The urge to explore generates the desire and determination to break the barriers that come in the way. He alone, perhaps, is capable of being seized by the divine frenzy for remote ideal". The history of human civilization is a great saga of human efforts and initiatives towards 'betterment' in every sphere that impacts their life. As these initiatives began to fructify, socialisation took roots, the worth of love, care, family ties, broad human bondage was realized. The process of human civilization has continued uninterrupted all along and in   the modern times, the concept of eternal unity of human beings is acceptable. Likewise, the evolution of moral, ethical and humanistic values became universally laudable.  It has not been a smooth onward march, violence, wars, slavery, apartheid, colonialism, caste discrimination, greed, and such negative traits have inflicted enormous miseries on human progress and development all along. However, these have failed to curb the instinct to move towards quality enhancement and excellence in every sector of human endeavour, and also of adventure. It took several centuries to bring mankind to the levels that have finally led to the concept of human rights and equality of all men and women overcoming diversities of all kinds. Every civilization, developing and evolving at different places and in varied conditions, created its own store house of experience, information, knowledge and skills. More

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