Wednesday 31 July 2013

Reduced Distances via Distance Education

Distance learning is a mode of education in which a student can study without being present to a setting called classroom. In other words, a person can learn and study while being far away from college because of reason like distance and time or both. Distance edcation helps people in many different ways. It opens up a way for those students who are unable to continue their studies because of unable to go to a regular college. Distance learning provides not only common but professionals courses too. There are many different distance learning courses are available in universities and colleges. Some of the distance learning courses are Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Bachelor of Commerce (B.com.), Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA), Bachelor of Computer Application (BCA), Bachelor of Engineering (BE) etc. These courses are under graduation degree courses with the three or four years of studying time. There are many post graduation coourses are also available in distance learning. Some of them are Master of Arts (MA), Master of Commerce (M.Com.), Master of Business Administration (MBA), Master of Computer Application (MCA) etc. MBA is one of the most famous post graduate degree course. It is available not only in regular as well as distance education in India.

Distance learning MBA helps people in  many ways. Those who already have a jobs, for promotion of their personal standings, they prefer MBA for greater success. But these types of people are unable to do regular MBA due to their jobs, its best for them to do MBA from distance learning universities. There are many distance learning universities in India. Some of the famous of them are Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), Annamalai University, Osmania University, Sikkim Manipal University, Nalanda Open University, Symbiosis Center for Distance Learning, Mahatma Gandhi University, Karnataka State Open University (KSOU), ICFAI University etc.

Distance learning universities opens many opportunities for their students. Not only professionals courses, distance education also provide diploma courses in under graduate and post graduate levels.

Friday 12 July 2013

Distance Education – the new revolution


Education has always been the important part of the human life. People around the world nod their head in ‘yes’ when it comes to providing education to their generation-to-come. Various modes have also got started since the requirement of educating people got increased with the expansion of civilization. Everyone is very well acquainted with the traditional manners and methods of education, in which students would often go to the education centers and gain education thereby. For higher education, too, it used to be the criteria for people to pay regular visits to the campus. But in today’s times, a revolution has got hyped and that is Distance education. As one can get by the name itself, this sort of education is being done through distance mode, wherein the candidates are usually away from the location of the institute and prepare only for the examinations. The timely examinations occur- be it year-wise or semester-wise. Various online courses are being allotted and given the suggestion for, to the students.

TheMany universities are providing myriads of programs under this special and flexible mode of gaining education. No dearth of distance learning universities is there in the nation and it caters to almost every section of the society. There are many a university that act as both regular-mode and distance-mode ones. And this is due to the demand of distance learning courses in the market; this is because of the younger generation’s want to multitask. These days, the youth want to work as well as study, so as to feel independent. This can be done with the help of having various colleges providing the courses worthy of professional growth. Courses such as distance learning MBA can be sought-after for career escalation. 

Not only the Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes, but research programmes are also to look forward to when it comes getting education via distance. For instance, distance learning Ph.D. is also there. One can opt for this alongside their work profile.