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Lessons from the Distance-Learner Communities
taatparya — Sun, 09/28/2008 - 08:07
After interacting with thousands of distance learners, we have come to the following conclusions:
- The distance learner has degree as the priority not the knowledge and skills
- Distance learner is almost always engaged in another parallel activity like part-time or full-time job or course and is not studying as a full-time student
- Many of the distance learners are people who couldn't make the cut-off for the regular universities
- Distance learners are naturally concerned a lot about the affiliation and accreditation aspects about their respective institutions. However, they could not collect enough information or were misguided by the institutes offering
- Many distance learners get disillusioned with their chances for higher education midway leaving them demotivated
- The use of language at the Vidyaweb sites indicates that the knowledge of English is at best mediocre amongst the technical distance learners and it might be deduced that a large number of the students might not be able to understand the conceptual elements of their course material which is almost always in English.