by India Education Diary
With the innovative use of technology, Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system has achieved flexibility in time, space, pace, medium, access and content. While delivering the 17th G. Ram Reddy Memorial Lecture on the topic ‘Education in the 21st Century-Toward Virtual Universities and Technology Enabled Learning’ at IGNOU Convention Centre, Prof. D.N. Reddy, Chairman, Recruitment and Assessment Centre, Defence Research Development Organisation (DRDO), Ministry of Defense. He emphasised on UNESCO’s argument that it was virtually impossible to build the number of traditional post-secondary institutions to keep up with the increase in demand. The debate that the traditional universities represent a tremendous ongoing financial commitment when physical campuses classrooms need to be built, maintained, heated, cooled and secured is on.
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