Open and Flexible Learning
Open and Flexible Learning
Issues and challenges
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Go to cartISBN: 9788130901886
Bind: Paperback
Year: 2006
Pages: 128
Size: 185 x 242 mm
Publisher: Viva Books Originals
Sales Territory: Worldwide
Description:
In view of the great contributions made by Prof G Ram Reddy in the development of Open and Distance learning, Prof G Ram Reddy Memorial Lectures have been organised every year annually on 2nd July since 1996. Very eminent and distinguished personalities deliver these lectures over the years on some very significant and important dimensions of Open and Distance Learning or closely connected contemporary issues. The ten lectures covered in this book hope to strengthen the cause of ODL system and project its unique and important role in ensuring equity in access to quality education at sustainable costs.
Target Audience:
People involved in various capacities in open and distance education.
Contents:
Face to face with distance education • Making distance education borderless • Profile of distance teacher in the 21st century: A developing world paradigm • Quality assurance in Open and Distance education • Learning in information society • Access to education: A guarantee of a less divided world? • Connectivity through space - a boon for developing India • On building innovative India of the twenty first century • Development of space programme and its impact on education • The vision for legal education and quest for competitive excellence.
About the Author:
Prof G Ram Reddy Born on 4-12-1929 in Andhra Pradesh, Prof Reddy received his higher education in Osmania University and London School of Economics.He held many important positions which include Vice Chancellor of Osmania University, the founder Vice Chancellor of Andhra Pradesh Open University and Indira Gandhi National Open University, Vice-President of the COL and Chairman of University Grants Commission.He established, shaped and nurtured many institutions of higher learning, including two Open Universities, the National Assessment and Accreditation Council in India and the Commonwealth of Learning, Vancouver, Canada.
