Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion

The Open and Distance Learning in India (or distance education) plays a significant role in democratising the higher education system of the country. The growth and development of distance education, as a sub-system of higher education in India has experienced several stages. Beginning from pure cor...

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Main Author: Naithani, Arunima
Other Authors: YSI Asia Convening 2019
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spelling oai:112.137.131.14:VNU_123-705772020-02-17T17:11:35Z Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion Naithani, Arunima YSI Asia Convening 2019 Distance Education Inequalities in Education Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) India The Open and Distance Learning in India (or distance education) plays a significant role in democratising the higher education system of the country. The growth and development of distance education, as a sub-system of higher education in India has experienced several stages. Beginning from pure correspondence courses in early 1960s, the range of educational programmes, and institutional access has evolved and developed over time into technology-enabled education system. Today, there are 14 State Open Universities, Indira Gandhi National Open University –IGNOU, in addition over 40 Universities (Private, central, state) which are dual mode institutions to provide distance education academic courses. In terms of enrollment of students, distance education courses constituted 11.05 per cent of the total gross enrollment ratio (GER) of 26 per cent in higher education, especially at the UG, PG, and Certificate levels courses (AISHE Report, 2017-18). Impressively, the national open university of India – IGNOU offers 232 academic programs and is the world's largest university in terms of ever-growing enrolment (IGNOU Prospectus, 2017-18). This indicates a progressive trend in distance education system in India as more than 3 million students are enrolled in various distance-learning programmes offered by such institutes (Gaba & Li, 2015). 2020-02-17T17:10:43Z 2020-02-17T17:10:43Z 2019 Conference Paper Naithani, A. (2019). Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion. YSI Asia Convening 2019. http://repository.vnu.edu.vn/handle/VNU_123/70577 en 8 p. application/pdf H. : ĐHKT
institution Vietnam National University, Hanoi
building VNU Library & Information Center
country Vietnam
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language English
topic Distance Education
Inequalities in Education
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
India
spellingShingle Distance Education
Inequalities in Education
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)
India
Naithani, Arunima
Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion
description The Open and Distance Learning in India (or distance education) plays a significant role in democratising the higher education system of the country. The growth and development of distance education, as a sub-system of higher education in India has experienced several stages. Beginning from pure correspondence courses in early 1960s, the range of educational programmes, and institutional access has evolved and developed over time into technology-enabled education system. Today, there are 14 State Open Universities, Indira Gandhi National Open University –IGNOU, in addition over 40 Universities (Private, central, state) which are dual mode institutions to provide distance education academic courses. In terms of enrollment of students, distance education courses constituted 11.05 per cent of the total gross enrollment ratio (GER) of 26 per cent in higher education, especially at the UG, PG, and Certificate levels courses (AISHE Report, 2017-18). Impressively, the national open university of India – IGNOU offers 232 academic programs and is the world's largest university in terms of ever-growing enrolment (IGNOU Prospectus, 2017-18). This indicates a progressive trend in distance education system in India as more than 3 million students are enrolled in various distance-learning programmes offered by such institutes (Gaba & Li, 2015).
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title Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion
title_short Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion
title_full Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion
title_fullStr Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion
title_full_unstemmed Technology and Inequalities in Education – A case of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in Distance Education in India as a means of Exclusion
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