Distance Learning in India
With the vision to make education accessible to all and sundry, the Government of India introduced the system of distance learning. This form of learning is often equated with online education, but in reality it is very much different. Unlike the latter which is quite costly, the courses of distance learning India have been designed specifically for the under-privileged, and for this reason, they are quite low-priced.
In addition to regular educational courses, distance learning India also conducts a number of professional and job-oriented courses like MBA, MCA, BE.d, B.Tech, M.Tech, and so forth. Short-term vocational courses in areas like marketing, finance, environment science, social science, and so on are also provided.
Presently, there are 11 open universities and 54 distance learning institutes in India. IGNOU (Indira Gandhi National Open University) a premier institute of distance learning India provides education to approximately 1.5 million students; all these students are not disadvantaged, many of them are those people who wish to improve their career opportunities or want to pursue other more engrossing activities.
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2 Responses to “Distance Learning in India”
1Prakash Bhargav on Jul 30, 2009 :
India is growing steadfastly in the future and all the credit goes to the increasing number of literacy rate. The large mass of educated people are heralding a new script in its growth and development of Indian story. Even Obama is pushing Americans to be like Indians and Chinese. The major factor which contributes to Indian Education is the presence of distance education eg. Sikkim Manipal University. It offers the flexibility of learning and earning at the same time and at your ease. The vast number of schools, colleges and universities produces a mass number of workforce. We are marching forward and the World is Listening our footsteps attentively than ever.
2Poonam Yadav on Aug 27, 2009 :
Recently, I was looking for a quality distance education and found Sikkim Manipal University. It has got all what I was looking for in a distance education. It has more than 600 learning centers in India with flexible innovative curriculum. But what makes SMU-DE (Sikkim Manipal University of Distance Education) stand apart is how they make the distance education as stimulated as Live classrooms and now its enhanced with their new feature called as Edunext. Anybody who is looking for a distance-learning/correspondence course, I would like to recommend SMU-DE. The admissions are open for fall 2009.