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Shipra Publications Distance Education Origin Growth And Development by P Satyanarayana C Sesharatnam Emmanuel Dk Meduri
Distance Education is a great educational innovation of modern period. It created enormous opportunities for the expansion of educational opportunities particularly at the higher education level.Distance education holds key to an educational revolution that will see access expanded, quality enhanced and cost reduced. Distance education has been playing several key roles in a modern education system. Distance education has been growing fast, in marvelously diverse fashion, around the world. Yet, many students, teachers and adults are not familiar with the dynamics of distance education. This book serves the purpose of familiarizing such students, teachers and adult learners with the origin and spread of distance education: When it began? Where it began? And how it began? Theories and Models of distance education, types and structures of distance education institutions, distance courses are also described in this book. It benefits all those who wish to know what, why and how of distance education and like to be benefitted by the newly emerging technology enabled education.