How many chances did the author of 'An Indian Pilgrim' have to appear at the ICS
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Higher Education through distant learning methods is increasingly gaining
popularity. Experts connected with the open university system in this country and
abroad would confirm this.
Netaji Subhas Open University has been set up with the specific object of
making educational opportunities easily accessible to all sections of the population
who are interested in higher education but could not, for some reason or other, be
the beneficiary of the same. Accordingly, several methods are being adopted to
provide the intending students maximum possible exposure to various courses
through home study. Self-learning study materials are a useful element of this kind
of instruction—apart from contact programmes, interactions with academic counsellors,
projects work and audio-video programmes.
Preparing study materials in a lucid from that conforms to the different intellectual
abilities of the students is certainly not an easy job. It calls for continuous and critical
attention of subject experts to convert existing knowledge into simple and concise
study packages.
To that end the experiments of the Indira Gandhi National Open University have
been a pace-setter. Since Netaji Subhas Open University would like to impart
training mostly through regional language, the task of transcreating these materials,
involves a lot of complexity. However, we are happy that in the course of the first
phase of our efforts we have gained sufficient insight to make some headway. This
has been possible mainly due to the untiring efforts of experts engaged in the process
in the capacity of course planners, study unit writers, content-and-copy editors and
so on. Regular monitoring and technical guidance of the members of the Advisory
Committee of the University has been of immense help in this connection.
Even then the entire work has gone on an experimental basis and may suffer
from a number of unintended shortcomings. It will be our sincere efforts to regularly
improve the quality of the study materials. In the meantime our efforts will be amply
rewarded if the study materials meet the requirements of the learners to a significant
extent.
Professor (Dr.) Subha Sankar Sarkar