Distance Education Essay

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education with due emphasis to distance education programme in the country by targeting the enrolment in higher education at the end of 12th Plan period that would be more than 30.74 million in addition to 5.2 million in distance education.
Baloyi (2009) in the South African context does reflect that the University of South Africa is the best example of tertiary institutions that offers distance education but he also stresses the fact that there are various number of tertiary universities that do offer face to face contact sessions such as UJ, WITS, UP OR Wits University. It is very important to note that ODL in the present higher education of our country is set up as compulsory but not as an option, therefore there are more higher education …show more content…

The quality of education is a complicated phenomenon which is influenced by many factors (Targamadze et al., 2010). Some of the intrinsic and extrinsic factors include the levels of skills and expertise of staff ,the amount of resources available, weak or strong leadership, efficiency of its administration systems and the communications infrastructure in a country(Robinson, 1995).
According to Brigley and Kell (2007, 260), students in the early stages of their studies may need more tutor support but later in their studies may need more peer support and networking. H Dzakiria (2005) also describes that an abstract qualitative study shows in detail the experience of a small group of distance learners as they progress through their courses at University Utara Malaysia (UUM). It should be noted that the initial literature review suggests that a number of studies had been completed in the past two decades that report student’s characteristics, motivations and prior experiences of study it said that most of these studies have been carried out from the point of view and

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