Distance Education or Distance Learning is a area of training that specializes in coaching techniques and engineering with the aim of providing coaching, often on an individual time frame, to learners who are not actually present in a conventional instructional establishing such as a instructional establishing. It has been described as "a process to make and provide use of learning when the resource of information and the learners are divided by time and range, or both. “Distance Education Courses that require a physical on-site existence for any reason (including taking examinations) have been called hybrid or blended programs of research.
Scope of Distance Education:
Distance education provides at least necessary technical and organizational preconditions for a universal admission to continued higher education. An analysis of statistics about distance education reveals that millions of distant students indeed profit from this industrialized way of education. Often enough it offers them the only way towards the desired education as all other ways are barred by lack of funds or by other circumstances.
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Distance Education serves the persons living in the isolated areas with inadequate facilities of formal education system as presented by Rai, N.A (2000) “Distance education has taken systematic teaching -learning process to persons living in isolated areas where facilities for the traditional form of class room teaching can not be developed. Further, as distance learning addresses the needs of specific target groups, there is a great variation in the range of programmes offered.” Distance education also serves the dropouts, older students and disadvantaged groups. Distance system also serves the persons involve in the community commitments as indicated by S.Manjulika and Reddy V.V (2000) “The open Universities have also increased access for other disadvantaged groups including older students, who may be geographically isolated or excluded from regular classes because of shift patterns, seasonal or other kind of work and family and community commitments.” Distance system of education utilizes printed material and non-print media support as reflected by Rao,K.V ( 2003) “Distance education is the form of indirect instruction. It is imparted by technical media such as correspondence, printed material, teaching and learning aids, audiovisual aids, radio, television and computers.”
| Courses | University | Duration | Fee(Rs.) | Address |
| BA in Applied Sign Language Studies | IGNOU | 3 years | 36,000 | Maidan Garhi, New Delhi |
| MCom in Business Policy and Corporate Governance | IGNOU | 2 Years | 6,000 | Maidan Garhi, New Delhi |
| MA in Participatory Development | IGNOU | 2 Years | 25,000 | Maidan Garhi, New Delhi |
| MSc in Dietetics and FoodService Management (DFSM) | IGNOU | 2 Years | 19,900 | Maidan Garhi, New Delhi |
| MSc in Geoinformatics | Annamali University | 2 Years | 17,750 | DDE, Annamalainagar |
| BSc in Visual Communication | Annamali University | 3 Years | 28,300 | DDE, Annamalainagar |
| Certificate course in employability skills | IMT, Jodhpur | 2 years | 100,000 | UPSIDC Ghaziabad |
| MS in Cyber Law and Security | NIIT in collaboration with IGNOU | 91 hours | 3,500 | NIIT South Ex-2, New Delhi |
| MBA in Shipping and Logistics | Tamil Nadu Open University | 2 Years | 60,000 | Tamil Nadu Open University, Chennai |
Distance learning courses help people to develop a dynamic personality for themselves as they help them to engage in multiple activities. For those who can not afford to attend regular education, distance learning courses have come as blessings.
MBA in Shipping and Logistics:
This sector-specific management programme aims to equip seafarers (people employed on board ships) seeking a career change to land-based employment in Shipping and Logistics companies. It also targets people working in Shipping and Logistics companies desirous of career advancement and fresh graduates interested in pursuing careers with Shipping and Logistics companies.
BSc in Visual Communication:
This programme is the first step towards a successful future for those interested in becoming animators, graphic and web designers. Visual communication is the conveyance of ideas and information in forms that can be read or looked upon and primarily associated with two-dimensional images, it includes: art, signs, photography, typography, drawing, graphic design, illustration, colour and electronic resources.
MSc in Dietetics and Food Service Management (DFSM):
This course is designed to help working professionals like dietitians, nutrition counsellors and food service managers, who want to enhance their career prospects in the healthcare, fitness and hospitality sector. It focuses on areas such as Applied Physiology, Nutritional Biochemistry, Food Safety and Food Microbiology, and provides theoretical and practical guidance on all aspects of dietetics, from promotion of health to management of diseases.
BA in Applied Sign Language Studies:
This programme is jointly offered by IGNOU and University of Central Lancashire, (UCLan), UK, and aims to produce sign language teachers, teacher trainers, literacy support teachers and project workers in the specialised area of sign languages and deaf communities.