Let me tell you this; education has become a big business on both the buyer’s side, and the seller side. The seller, or the university owner, wants some good money and for that, most of them simply compromise the quality of education.

The buyers, or the students, on the other hand, want the best bang for their buck. In this context, always keep in mind that a $20,000 course isn’t that much better than the same deal that some small scale college is offering for $5,000. Maybe the smaller platform has dedicated teachers and a professional approach towards the course content.

Anyhow, let’s see what education is:

  • “Education is the process of teaching or being taught”.
    • “Education is the act of imparting knowledge in a learning environment”.

 

Distance education is a little different than conventional education; it’s more of a student’s responsibility to hold on to the learning process. As we know that the student-teacher physical interaction is absent in case of distance learning, it’s the student who really has to feel motivated and work through all the scenarios.

In a nutshell, current Indian and South Asian Universities are offering the following kinds of distance education packages:

  1. Standardized Distance Learning:
    1. True depiction of “Student becomes the master”, oversees the learner with most of the control over the learning process. Such kinds of distance education packages are not guided or laser targeted in terms of enforcing the student to comply with the program modules.
      i.      The teacher simply records a course or broadcasts it through a webinar. If the student attends it, it’s well and good. If the student misses it, he or she can always come back later.

 

  1. Open Learning:
    1. Open distance learning is based on side courses and plans to further enhance your education. Such programs don’t have age limits because everyone wants to join in so badly. Hence the expression: “Open Opportunities” of learning for all, comes into perspective more clearly than ever.
      i.      Open distance learning is not the ideal platform for people who want to seek proper degree through a proper medium.
      ii.      Open learning modules don’t have prerequisites or any major requirements.

 

  1. Distributed Learning:
    1. This kind of distance learning occurs through multiple learning networks. Universities encourage students to take parts in live lecture webinars, so that they can interact with one another and learn as much as possible.