Paragraph on the Importance of Distance Education
The article covers —
● what is distance education?
● why is distance education important?
● what are the facilities in distance education?
Education makes a person self-reliant. An educated person is well-equipped to take important decisions in life and steer his life towards prosperity. We can say an educated person makes his own fate and fortune. Not only that the development of a nation is relying on the educated human resources.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
—APJ Abdul Kalam
On the contrary, an illiterate person needs help and guidance at every step. He feels helpless and is ever at the mercy of others. Many unfortunate children in our country do not get a chance to go to school because of poverty and other adverse circumstances. Such children grow into illiterate adults. But we must remember that it is never too late to learn.
No one should be denied from proper opportunity for getting education. Many persons, however, can hardly continue their study for several reasons. Their pursuit of academic advancement may be halted. This is seen particularly in the case of higher study. But people are now aware of the important of education and a large number of men and women are keen to get educated for self interest and for the upliftment of their career.
The government and the several NGO’s have come forward with different study courses for this purpose. Adult education is also provided at night schools because most of the people are at work during the day. Here the present-day system of distance education serves as a great boon to them. In the distance education one can read and appear in the examination without attending regular classes. Distance education implies education imparted from distance. Necessary instructions, assignments, study notes are sent regularly.
So, distance education renders benefits to all who may not fortunate to avail higher study in a normal course. In this purpose various universities in country like B.R. Ambedkar Open University, Netaji Subhas Open University, Sikkim Manipal Open University, Vidyasagar Open University, Rabindra Mukto Vidyala etc. have launched their adult distance study education.
The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) introduced its academic programmes in 1987 and has launched a number of study courses in arts and literature, IT and Engineering, research sector etc. Distance education has now become a part of National Education Policy.
Where distance education has a large number of advantages, it has some weaknesses too. Distance education does not provide a proper interactive environment like in formal classroom. It fails to make proper assessment of a student in participation, involvement in class, question answering, group discussion like in the conventional classroom. But, still distance education should be flourished to promote the motto, “Education for all”.
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