Quality Issues for Counselling in Open and Distance Learning in India
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This article is mainly intended to identify various aspects concerned with improving the Quality of Counselling in Open and Distance Learning. The characteristics of distance education, the distance learner, the various mechanisms of learner support, the important role of the academic counselor in maintaining quality in distance learning are discussed and some measures are suggested based on TQM for maintaining the quality of counselling in distance learning with particular reference to IGNOU. The authors have a wide experience in dealing with practical issues involved in distance education at the grassroots level by virtue of their work related experiences in the Regional Centres of IGNOU for over a decade.
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