Building knowledge society with open and distance learning
[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
In spite of our significant efforts and achievements in the post-independent era in India even now one-third of the adult population is illiterate, only 12% of the school eligible age children complete 10th standard, and only 10% of the university eligible age group gets enrolled in our 18600 colleges and 360 Universities. Can conventional methods cope up this scale of educational challenges?
