Distance Education Technologies in Open and Distance Learning With Specific Reference to Teacher Education Programmes | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

Advanced education is of indispensable significance for the country, as it is an incredible asset to fabricate information based society of the 21st Century. India has set extraordinary accentuation on education, directly from antiquated occasions. Before, exceptionally progressed establishments, for example, Nalanda, Taxila and Vikramshila prospered here, which conferred education on a huge scope of subjects and were locales for open, dialogistic correspondence. Towards the bygone eras, education kept on being established in religion and the arrangement of instructing proceeded with minor varieties across the district. Under the British standard, education was elitist, obliging just the advantaged segments of society. In any case, the pilgrim rule likewise was the start of the foundation of the college framework in India, with establishments of higher adapting methodicallly filling in number, so that by 1923, there were 23 Universities across India. After autonomy in 1947, the Government of India established the frameworks of a supported program of advanced education with the setting up of the University Grants Commission (UGC) in 1953. Under the Constitution, duty regarding education is divided among the Central and State Governments