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Why Distance Education ?

The world has witnessed an impressive emergence of various technologies, broadening the choice available to provide to all, education in terms of delivery and access. There are numerous distance learning benefits which one ought to consider when electing to take an online distance learning course. Distance education promotes the opportunity to meet the needs of students unable to attend on-campus classes. One of the biggest distance learning benefits is the issue of flexibility and time. A student is not confined to classroom for a certain number of hours on a given day. Online or distance learning courses provide flexibility when it comes to the completion of lessons.

Benefits Envisaged
Some of the benefits of Distance learning/ E learning that are possible to be visualized at this stage are:

Cost Effectiveness of Approach
Under the conventional system, the cost of providing teachers in remote and inaccessible areas by way of their salaries and other emoluments and travel cost is very high. Institutions find it difficult to attract and retain good faculty. By moving portion of the learning online, the potential cost savings can be significant especially keeping in mind the vast fabric of Indian continent. The proposed portal project is cost effective in reaching out to those who are out of the formal system of education through providing connectivity on line. Also, in order to reduce the cost of producing new e-learning modules, content providers would be reusing and repurposing the content available across the web through collaboration with the existing content developers.

Access/suitability
Instructors led education poses timing, geographical and availability constraints that restrict access to learning. Distance learning scales to make valuable knowledge available to hundreds and thousands of learners simultaneously and at their convenience. Distance learning also enables better leverage on global resources, utilizing subject matter experts around the world.

Timeliness
As opposed to the conventional instructor led learning, where enormous time and effort goes into content preparation, still rendering it ineffective in reach, Distance learning can be as simple as providing a video-on-demand to anyone who immediately needs to know something to improve his performance. Distance learning, by providing a new set of tools, adds value to all the traditional learning modes- classroom experience, text book study, and computer based study.

Relevance
It is difficult to make all aspects of an instructor led learning course relevant for all learners, since every learner enters a class with a different baseline of knowledge. E learning addresses this issue in two ways: by letting learners select only the information they need and by providing a prescribed learning target for the individual.

Accountability
Aside, from certification, it is difficult to hold learners accountable for what they have learned or to hold instructional designers and instructors accountable for the effectiveness of their offerings. E-learning tracks learner progress with Post-assessment online.

Community Participation
With the avenues of interaction between various haves and have-nots of knowledge in the community, many problems of the community will get solved by the community members themselves and thus, the body of knowledge available on the portal will also get enriched. A silent digital revolution aimed at upliftment of our rural masses is expected to ensue. Needless to say that the contributions, par excellence, made to the pool of knowledge by individuals will not go unrewarded.

Measures for the disadvantaged groups
Continuing its efforts to reach out to the disadvantaged sections of the society, the open and distance learning system proposes to extend the network to the disendowed Regions, and the marginalized sections of the society.

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