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Educational Technology

Notes Introduction

Distance Education is becoming very popular in the world. Dr. Satyabhusan (1990) writes in this regard,
in the past four decades, in the entire world’s developed, developing and socialist countries, there has
been a phenomenal growth of distance education. There are many reasons for this change in the vast

trend due to endless activities-Despite the significant increase in enrolment growth reduction in public
growth, Section of the population who have been deprived of education, growing consciousness for
having education, technological changes causing a gradual loss of efficiency of the current workforce

and therefore they must again be made efficient. Besides this purely, the dissemination of knowledge

and skills to meet the challenges of the institution that seems to be beyond the capacity of reciprocal
distribution arrangement which is completely based on the systems like studying in the classroom in
front of teacher.
This change is unprecedented. This change in education gives birth to a number of new challenges. The
entire country and its citizens are greeting this system. Many institutions have accepted the distance
education as a complementary system along with the formal systems of education.

30.1 Meaning and Definitions of Distance Education
(1) Correspondence education
(2) Home study
(3) External study
(4) Distant education
(5) Off campus study
(6) Open Learning
(7) Independent Study
(8) Multi-media Education

In our country, correspondence Education and open learning are well known words used
for Distance Education.

The inventions of communication technology have a great impact on the distance education. The
importance and area of distance education has been increased by the use of various techniques of

communication technology in the field of correspondence education. Distance is becoming very popular
as a Non-traditional form of education.

Defi nitions

According to Philips Combs and Mansour Ahamad—“A distance education is an organized systematic
educational activity carried on outside the frame work of the established formal system. Whether
operating separately or as an important feature of some broader activity that is intended to serve
identifiable learning clienteles and learning objectives.”

Borgie Homeverg (1981)—“At all levels of education, the difference of study which are not included in
the regular observation of a teacher are called distance education.”

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