On Mixing Delivery Modes of Conventional and Distance Education : A Pragmatic View
J.S. Mirza
Abstract
Distance educabn has its roots in correspondence education which was pioneered some 100 years ago. Distance education caters for adults who for one reason or an other aspire to educate themselves at their own leisure hours and at their own place of choice. These two flexibilities are the hallmarks of distance education. Some distance education establishments provide sufficient regular tutorial supportin a face-to-face (F2F) manner. The School of Science and Technology, OUHK has been found to restrict tutorial support to only a selective format. This format essentially discourages lecturing to students, while it may be most desirable things with them. This philosophy is so entrenched that it is regarded heretic to imagine that a tutor would deliver the course through lectures even though the majority of students would prefer it, and the school would not incur additional cost. The question is: Is there any orthodox way of delivering distance education?
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Published by Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, India.