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Unit 26: Distance Education :Concept, Need and Modes of Distance Education)

Self Assessment Notes
2. Multiple choice questions:
Choose the correct option
(i) There are .................... open universities and 64 institutions of correspondence courses
and directorate of distance education besides IGNOU.
(a)7 (b)8 (c)9 (d)10
(ii) The total enrolment through non-formal system of learning is nearly .............. of the
total enrolment of nearly 7.8 million students enrolled in universities and colleges.
(a) 10% (b) 13% (c) 24% (d) 35$
(iii) The central board of education set up the national institute of open schooling ( National
open school) in-
(a) 1979 (b) 1980 (c) 1981 (d) 1982
26.4 The Interaction Modes in Distance Education

The communication occurs through the two basic mediations the technological and the human
mediation. The former is a condition for the non-contiguous communication and provides
support to the latter, which is performed through the Tutorial System. Each one of these
mediations carries out actions of paramount importance to guaranty the informational and
communicational flows continuity that jointly viability the pedagogical mediation.
The informational flows concern the circuits of circulation and diffusion of information necessary
for the process development, both administrative and pedagogical. The communicational flows
concern the interaction, construction and circulation circuits off the specific meanings of a
process whose intention is the collective knowledge construction.
Multidirectional this type of flow occurs in several directions, either from the institution to a
collective of students from the students to the institution, individually or collectively, and
among the students. Not only the students communication with the tutorship is viabilized, but
the communication among the students plays an important role in the knowledge building
learning and socialization.
The unidirectional flow can be associated to correspondence teaching, through the postal service
or the internet, and the tutorship offer allows the flow to be bidirectional, which enables us to
make the association with the “one-to-one” communication mode. The scale bidirectional flow
with the education performed through radio and television that can be identified with the
“one-to-many” communication mode, and the multidirectional flow with the “many-to-many”
communication. The Internet can viabilize proposals in any one of the previously described
communicational possibilities.
26.4.1 The First Interaction Mode: Star Mode
The pedagogical design is totally centered on the source-teaching providing institution, and
consists in the addressed assistance, which enabled Distance Education to be individualized and
personalized. Among the pedagogical conceptions possible in this interaction mode there are
the banking education, based on the content delivery with some tutorial follow-up, and the
cybernetic conception, which employs Programmed Instruction. In this mode, the communication
occurs between the source and an isolated receptor, following the printed media model, which
delivers a newspaper copy to each subscriber.

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