Vidya Planet is an online portal to help you ease your distance education journey. vidyaplanet.in
Bringing education to the people is more important than bringing people to the education.
Distance learning is the term given to an educational process where students don’t need to go to college daily and can continue with their education at the comfort of their time, place and schedule.
There are numerous colleges offering a large number of campus programmes, but there has always been a growing need for off-campus programmes for students who can’t make it to college daily. And so, distance education came into existence.
The “distance” between a learner and teacher is bridged through distance education.
Earlier in the times, distance education meant just correspondence education where off-campus programmes were designed and students didn’t need to come to college daily. They were provided with printed study material to ease their self-learning process and they have to come to their respective Study centres to give examinations.
Apart from this method, there is another way of distance learning, and that is online learning. It is also one of the most preferred methods of learning during the pandemic. Online learning during Covid attracted people like anything. Students were unable to enrol for a regular course due to social distancing and didn’t want to waste an academic year of their education, therefore the best thing that came to the rescue was online learning programmes, that helped many people to study during the corona crisis.
Many students enrolled on online courses to adopt virtual learning. This is implemented through e-tools by Universities to give the students the best learning experience. This includes the use of a Learning Management System (LMS), e-books, digital textbooks, virtual classes, recorded lectures, video conferencing, e-library and many more, as designed by the Institution. Due to the fast-pacing demand for such courses, many Universities have started introducing specialized distance programmes to reach the unreached, especially to facilitate and spread education amidst the pandemic. All you need is a system and a stable network connection and your college is at your home.
Whereas the various Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) require no approval, all programmes leading to the award of degrees have to be approved by the regulator, that is, the University Grants Commission (UGC).
The major importance of distance learning is because of the incessant benefits it brings along.
Leave Your Comment