Catering Learners ’ Need

According to Koul, L.(2000), ‘Distance education refers to the mode of education where the interacting learner and teacher are separated by space and time, while open learning focuses on removal of many restrictions and rigidities in opening the doors of education for the needy learners. The Open and Distance Learning can provides a viable alternative mode with the objective to take education to the door steps of the learner, enhancing social equity, and creating flexibility for lifelong learning’. Recently, it is seen that the demand for higher education has increased enormously throughout the country because of massive awareness. At this time, the system of higher education fails to accommodate this ever increasing demand. In this moment, there is an urgent need to think for better option to cater the learners need. In this paper, effort was made to study about the Open and Distance Learning (ODL) system through analytical and descriptive way. After reviewing all the facts & findings, author came to the conclusion that the ODL system is more learner centric and suitable approach in the present system of education to cater the increasing demand of the learners