Education for Knowledge Era: Open and Flexible Learning 01 Edition  (English, Paperback, V C Kulandai Swamy)

This generated pressure on the higher education system. Fortunately, the developments in the art and science of communication and its application to classroom instruction came in and ushered in the ’distance education’ as a viable mode to cater to large numbers. The ivory towers have been thrown open and education has changed from craft to technology. The transaction of educational curriculum using technology marked the inauguration of ’New Era’ in education, which essentially constitutes the ’third stage’ of development in education. The emergence of knowledge as a resource - that is renewable and can compensate for the absence or inadequacy of any natural resource - stands out as the event of the twentieth century. The use of tools such as computers, CD-ROMs, E-mail and Internet has now enabled offering of flexible learning, which is learner-centric. In these years of rapid changes, focus has shifted to the information highway.