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Science education through open and distance learning at Higher Education level

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dc.creator Amrita NIGAM
dc.date 2007-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-08-12T11:23:58Z
dc.date.available 2015-08-12T11:23:58Z
dc.identifier 1302-6488
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/89ea2cae228b435aaecc7630e3c70ce6
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/29809
dc.description Abstract The changes faced by the society in the past few decades brought revolution in all areas. The job requirements have undergone change tremendously. The emergence of e-culture, e-education, e-governance, e-training, e-work sites and so on questioned the capacity of conventional face to face education in catering to all and relevance of existing job related skills to a great extent in the emerging global society. Today, every one has to update his/her educational and/or professional skills and competencies to cope up with the emerging work challenges. This is more so in the field of science and technology. At the same time, it is impossible to cater to educational and training opportunities to one and all those who aspire for it through the conventional set up. The distance and open learning (ODL) seems to be one of the viable alternatives. Today, the success and viability of ODL is accepted globally. Coulter (1989), through a study demonstrated that ODL is a cost-effective medium in providing educational opportunities. Similarly Holmberg (1981) also mentioned ODL as a systematic teaching-learning medium by using variety of medium for imparting learning. The present study is an attempt to study the experiences of the open science learners of IGNOU on different aspect of the science higher education. Here a questionnaire was used to collect the data and responses from 81 students enrolled for B. Sc. from IGNOU were collected. The findings of the study reported that society has undergone drastic changes in the last few decades. The revolution led due to Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have widely affected all aspects of society. The emerging jobs require entirely new skills and competencies i.e., employment in BPOs or switching over to e-governance, e-Banking and e- based sectors. Even e-learning has made numerous expectations from teachers and other personnel. The use of ICTs in almost every field needs adequately trained workers so that they can work efficiently and effectively. The training and retraining avenues in the conventional system is grossly inadequate to cope up with the present and future demands. In this situation open and distance education is the available alternative.
dc.language English
dc.publisher Anadolu University, Eskisehir
dc.relation http://tojde.anadolu.edu.tr/tojde28/pdf/article_2.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1302-6488
dc.source The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education, Vol 8, Iss 4, Pp 20-33 (2007)
dc.subject BSc degree
dc.subject intensive practical work
dc.subject Women students
dc.subject distance teaching-learning methodology
dc.subject Academic Counselling
dc.subject communication technologies
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Special aspects of education
dc.subject LC8-6691
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Science education through open and distance learning at Higher Education level
dc.type article


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