About the Book

Educational technology is the backbone of distance education system. it has provided systematic approaches to various activities like need assessment, development of material, product evaluation, etc. In fact, distance is not a problem in distance education. The real problem is how to make communication more effective. The book covers a systemic analysis of distance education system for exploring the possibility of applying various techniques to different activities of the system. The book begins with an explanation as to how technology can make education more productive, powerful and suitable. The role of media for sustaining interest in learning, providing feedback and making a distant learner active during learning has also bee covered. Then, how a good quality question bank can be developed, has been dealt with. Besides, the book also examines the application of distance education mode for meeting continuing educational needs as well as the concept of quality assurance in the open learning system. The idea of using language laboratory in distance education has explored a chance for refining the dialect portion of any language among distant learners. The book also discusses the potential of radio for women education, and presents an opinion survey about ‘Countrywide Classroom’. The book would prove to be a necessity for every institute having a concern for distance education system.

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About the Author / Editor

Satish Rastogi is Reader in Student Evaluation Resource Centre of Y.C.M. Open University, Nashik.

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