Abstract:

In this study, data were gathered from distance learners the findings of which reveal that only a few learners avail of the media support services provided to them. This is not very encouraging to the open universities, which are experimenting and implementing different kinds of innovative lCTs to provide education and educational services through distance mode of learning. It empirically highlights that in spite of using wide variety of media and allied services, majority of the distance learners at the grass root level are not aware of them. It means the ODL institutions should pay more attention to provide information to the learners in addition to the provision of media services. Then only the learners will get benefited. Otherwise the ICT efforts will not yield desired results. The paper suggests different strategies to be adopted to inform the learners about media services provided by open universities.