Abstract:

 

 

Education today is accommodating new designs of teaching, learning and evaluation. Open and Distance Learning System (ODLS), especially, welcomes and adopts innovations in the system. Emergence of mega-institutions like IGNOU, which can boast of an enrolment of more than a million students, stresses that the technology comes in a big way to ease out the procedures, which are still running in the conventional mode. Information Technology and computers have received their due importance in instructional activities, but there is a lot of scope for developing their role in assessment and feedback. Geometr~callyin creasing number of students, increasing number of courses and programs and mounting pressure to do a purposeful assessment and still declaring the result on time are very common features of ODLS. These can be managed properly only if one exploits the potential of the available IT resources systematically and gainfully. The present study is thus an attempt to list the tools and techniques, which are presently available and can be used effectively in ODLS especially in the Indian context