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Notes 7. Distance education makes itself more organized by using innovative discoveries of science and
technology and helps others to be up to date.
8. Special provisions are kept in distance education for enforcement.
9. It is less expansible and more useful as compared to formal education.
10. Globalization of education is possible through distance education.
11. Distance education is a solution to the real needs which are able and capable of bringing signifi cant
changes in education policy.
12. Distance education, reduces pressure of formal education system on the students and is forwarded
towards qualitative improvements.
13. It encourages the provision of the Constitution that everyone should have equal opportunities in
education.
14. This system is helpful at all the level from primary to higher.
15. Distance education teaches people to use the leisure time by some appropriate methods.
16. People are able to get good jobs by developing their qualifi cations.
17. Distance education is helpful in increasing the level of education in a learning community and to
generate awareness among them.
18. Distance education invites very specific subject experts to build your learning courseware or to give

lecture and tries to give their benefits to students.
19. In distance education, students get the opportunity to learn at his own pace.

30.12 Limitations of Distance Education Programme

Following are the limitations of distance education programme—
1. Sometimes students unnecessarily overestimate their ability, power and interests which can cause
problems later.
2. Programmes except computer instruction could not get feedback in distance education.

3. It is difficult to take care of individual problems of students in distance education.
4. Distance education very often practices like streak mystic.
5. There is very less interaction between students as compared to formal education system.
6. Teachers have less impact on students as they rarely face each other in contract programmes. Therefore
it is not possible to get various values and attributes from teachers.

Self-Assessment

3. State whether the following statements are true or false—
(i) Today, Open University has proved a very important and popular innovation in the fi eld of
education.
(ii) In Open University, there is a restriction of studying in the campus.
(iii) ‘’The basic principle of open universities is to look forward to unleashing the idea or innovation
and continuous experiments to be perfect.’’
(iv) The same teaching subjects are placed in the different universities.

(v) It is difficult to focus on the individual needs of students in distance education programmes.

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