A Study On The Attitude Of Undergraduate Students Towards Distance Education In North 24 Parganas District Of West Bengal

Distance education is the alternative way to formal education. This is a form of non-formal education. Distance education is the most suitable and dependable way out for the academic achievement of students who are unable to attend regular formal education for some reasons. In this Distance learning method, the most beneficiary or most involved community is the student. In this Distance learning system, the traditional way was correspondence learning but now-a-days it usually involves online education. There will be some possibilities to run the programme completely in distance mode by only online teaching-learning process or a combination of distance learning and traditional classroom instruction which is now called blended mode. In this Distance learning mode, e-learning, virtual classroom, G -Suit are the most common terms which include the online teaching-learning process as well. Distance learning can expand the scope of learning and access of knowledge depending on the need and capability. Distance education also provides some broader methods of communication with the help of technological tools and techniques; communication improves the quality of teaching as communication allows enhancing the benefit of this teaching-learning process. So, it is highly pertinent to know the attitude of the students. Accordingly, an attempt has been made to estimate the attitude of Under Graduate level students towards distance education in North 24 Parganas District of West Bengal.