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Derginin Adı:
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The Turkish Online Journal of Distance Education
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Cilt:
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2011/12
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Sayı:
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2
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Makale Başlık:
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COST-EFFECTIVE, EQUITABLE AND FLEXIBLE HIGHER EDUCATION THROUGH OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING IN BANGLADESH
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Makale Alternatif Dilde Başlık:
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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9.04.2015
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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This paper examines how this mega-university offers increasing access to costeffective,
equitable and flexible higher education by analyzing data from primary and
secondary sources, identifies challenges impacting the continued growth of
enrollment in distance education, and outlines opportunities for increasing access to
higher education through scaling of distance initiatives. For pedagogic delivery, BOU
uses both the conventional face-to-face tutorial system based on print module and
electronic learning technologies such as CD, audiovisual cassettes, and radio and TV
broadcasts. It revealed that BOU education is flexible, cost-effective, and insensitive
to gender and geography and of standard comparable to that of the conventional
universities. The reasons behind the success and cost-effectiveness of BOU programs
were;
BOU has access to any government and non-government infrastructures
and resources without any cost or with nominal costs and can engage
specialists from any institution for tutoring with a small honorarium;
it broadcasts program free of cost through government-owned radio and
TV channels;
the demand for higher education is very high due to seat limitations only
4-5% of students get the chance to enroll in public universities after their
HSC; and
the degree/diploma/certificate of BOU is accepted by all as equivalent to
those of conventional public universities.
Survey of opinions from students of different programs identified the problems in the
current system and proposed alternatives to mitigate them by applying some
innovative interactive and flexible learning technologies including mobile phone.
Considering the success of BOU and to accommodate the huge demand of higher
education, conventional universities should also open their doors for ICT-mediated
cost-effective and flexing learning to make the vision of knowledge-based ‘digital
Bangladesh’ a reality by the year 2021.
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