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No Teacher, no student! Sit at any convenient place and get the degrees in any field of education. Let’s have a brief look into advantages and disadvantages of Distance Education… Today, technology touched and prospered every aspect of life.

It has also entered in the filed of Education.

As human life became so speedy and the concept "time is money" born, he innovated new form of education called Distance Education to save time, travel and money with the help of various mediums of effective communication.

The definition lays in the name itself "Distance Education".

It keeps the distance and space between the learner and teacher.

In this modern form of the education, a learner controls the process of learning more than his distance instructor.

It allows you the freedom of learning.

It bends according to learner’s suitable time.

In any educational system communication between the teacher and student is essential.

Innovation of satellite based systems like Radio, Television sets and Internet brought the effectiveness and popularity in Distance Education.

Today without involving this technology distance education is not possible.

Advantages Saves the Time: Distance education provides you the freedom to study in any convenient location or place, as physical presence does not matter here like traditional classroom.

Course Selection: Student can apply for multiple courses at the same time from various distance education institutes.

Age no bar: Anybody from any age group can apply for online courses.

Elimination of anxiety: As a learner can go though process from his convenient location hence there is no classroom anxiety especially at the time of presentation and asking doubts and also it prevents homesickness in student.

No need of Educational Visa: One always has to go through complicated process when it comes to go foreign country and get Visa.

These mediums can get influenced when there is power failure, failure in Internet server or any hardware failure.

Lack of instant feedback: Due to the absence of face-to-face communication, student does not get immediate feedback for his assignments and fieldwork studies.

Limited Scope in employment: Many employers are biased about the degrees acquired through distance learning.

On the other hand, student also has to make compromises with the "live academic environment" as well as the scope for the degrees.

After choosing right university and course, one can easily go ahead with distance education without completing number of complicated formalities and documentation.