Tools of ICT in Open and Distance Learning for Inclusive Education in Developing World

Abstract

Open and distance learning is getting more reliant on information and communication technology which is assuming a significant part in providing various techniques of distance learning for comprehensive instruction for an inclusive setup. With the progression in innovation, in the field of instruction has presented assortment of new strategies for instructors and students with differing needs to improve their insight and skills. Open and separation learning has opened the ways to training to categories like disadvantaged people, employed as well as jobless, the ethnic minorities, impaired individuals, women, and transgender. In this association, ICT has turned into the most appropriate instrument, which can assist individuals with various learning needs to practice their entitlement to training, work, social life and relaxation, and access to data and majority rule channels. The chapter starts with an overview of phases of distance learning development and fundamental highlights of ICT-based instruction. The section additionally contains an extensive picture of widespread technologies utilized as a part of open and distance learning and their advantages for understudies with assorted instructive needs and how these apparatuses of data and correspondence innovation can be utilized as a part of the consideration. The chapter also emphasized that how synchronous and asynchronous tools of ICT manage the cost of the special chance to encourage both essential and adequate states of getting quality instruction and in addition effectively contribute to balance individual’s relations with his environment. Among the assorted variety of comprehensive systems for individuals with diverse needs, ICTs have turned into the most suitable instrument empowering to build up an all-encompassing perspective of the world and pick up a solid footing in information society. Although the ICT actualized in distance education is no solution to all dilemmas of inclusive education, by significantly enhancing the access to data and supporting correspondence ICT can turn into an intense key—instructive and correspondence implies—which, thusly, would lay the reason for real advance in self-awareness, self-improvement, growth and development for permitting the involvement of individuals with diverse educational needs in all aspects of group life.