Abstract: Education is a life-long process. Objectives and medium of education are changing with the demand of society from time to time. With the chronological transformation of residential institutions for education, education in monastery, sanskrit schools, organizational education, student- centered education, vocational education etc., open and distance education has been flourished. The existence and expansion of any medium of education mainly depends on its acceptability and success. In this research work, acceptability of distance education has been discussed. The present work has been conducted to study the acceptability of distance education among students. A sample of 100 distance learners from West Bengal (in India) was selected. Two sets of questionnaires were employed to gather opinion or attitude towards distance education from the students, different teachers and administrative personals. The findings of the study revealed that majority number of students favour for the distance education and the acceptability of distance education among students were satisfactory.
Keywords: Distance Education, Acceptability of Distance Education, Success of Distance Education, Necessity of Distance Education.
Title: Acceptability of Distance Education among Students’ Society
Author: Dr. Prolay Mondal, Mriganka Narayana Das
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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