What makes Open and Distance Education: A SUCCESS?

What makes Open and Distance Education: A SUCCESS?

It is often deliberated informally “what makes Open and Distance Education a success?

Whether it is moral, ethical, social, political or an Individual question:
It is always a person builds the institutions? What kind of people we have? What kind of socialization we provide within the institution and transmitting culture (political culture) form one generation to another generation is very important.

I am emphasizing on political culture because I define and understood ‘politics is public affair’, it is also ‘power in public life’ (Morgenthau), it is also defined as ‘the relation between the two individuals or among the people’ which makes the culture (it is political) and also transmits form one generation to another generation. It is a cyclic process but the dimensions are ever changing depending upon time and space.

Hence, politics is enviable in all walks of life, including between wife and husband. The difference we should make that what kind of politics we are doing to do is important and a discussion point.

One of the foreign visitors to may room, while browsing through internet, she has posed a question ‘where do you stand in your institutional politics?’. My reply was that I was everywhere during my promotion time but I am no where after my promotion. She replied that politics is universal, she started explaining the global trends and given so many examples but finally she insisted that we may be more politically prone or crudely political but one should not miss professionalism in our pedagogical politics. I was inspiring. I always think that one can good politics and bad politics, the choice is always with us.

To sum up the above discussion, we can derive the best politics for ‘meaningful growth and development of individual and institution’ can be possible; if one have real objectivity towards an institution,

This sort of debate is unending, it is always beginning. Let us set the ball rolling towards our title.

After 21 years of service to Open University as a gross root service provider at study centre, regional centre and head quarters as a trainer and teacher. I would like to confess, my opinion on what makes Open and Distance Education: A SUCCESS?

It is good people with competencies or at least institutional commitments, if one possess institutional commitments, they would gradually acquire competencies, such process enable to bring effective coordination among the units, divisions, centres and people.

The second point is that the people working for the cause of Open and Distance learning, they borrow other knowledge and experiences for seam less education should have integrity, the integrity implies at both personal and public spheres.

Finally, a statutory policy on Open and Distance Education enable the Open and Distance educational learning systems credible in the public spheres.

To acquire or strive to reach above ideas/ traits, I believe that the people working for the cause of Open and Distance Learning should have flexible mindset, S/he accessible to people, places, mehods/logies and also frameworks and possess equity as their commitment in their professional walks of life, finally, S/he should be self-learners in their learning process. (more prone to Internal Lucas of Controls rather than External Lucas of Controls)

“We have always or mostly habituated to pursue reality from our own perception rather than evolving perception from the reality”.