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"Web Technology role in “Distance Learning” is the final and ultimate approach to meet the learning requirements of new era. Justify the statement."

Web technology has significantly changed the exchange of information, allowing anyone with access to a personal computer with on-line capability the opportunity to gather substantial materials from diverse and wide-ranging sources. Computer literacy and Internet facility are still not universal skills, though more and more individuals are becoming skilled at using computers and at accessing the Internet. By creating a digital framework in which a community of peers can evaluate and organize these efforts, we can begin to build not only an increasingly robust and complex array of learning opportunities for adult students of diverse and often entrenched learning styles, but the knowledge base by which their teachers can establish best practices, pedagogical strategies, and an in understanding of their endeavor. The Internet has had a profound impact on the ways in which many different tasks are accomplished.

Definition of Distance Learning:

"Distance learning or education is a field of education that focuses on the pedagogy and andragogy, technology and instructional systems design that aim to deliver education to students who are not physically "On site"

WEB TECHNOLOGY ROLE IN DISTANCE LEARNING:

"Distance learning has received a boost due to the low price of internet communication and the availability of web-based interactive content."

The students who want to continue their jobs with their current jobs this is very convenient option available to them. Physical locating is less of hindrance now. We are turning more and more toward online resources of information

Example:

VU institute is the best example and it better explains the web technology role in distance learning because:

VU student are not take lectures through physically teacher presence.

All their dealings, papers, assignments, quizzes are taken from the student through web technology.

Students can interact with the other students and the teachers with the help of internet which is actually web technology.