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Educational Technology and Distance Education

In the quest for new humanism and peace and in total integration of culture and technology, a new stage has come in the evolution of education which is supposed to act as an agent of change in the development of individual personality, in assuring greater element of equity and access, transcending social, economic and geographical barriers and in the enhancement of knowledge and culture. This third stage of evolution in education that is known as distance education symbolizes the transformation of education from the stage of craft to technology, imparting it with high flexibility and vastly increased productivity by transferring knowledge to the people in place of people to knowledge.

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