Open and Distance Learning for Sustainable Development: Lessons from Myanmar

This paper provides the theoretical framework as well as the measures to be taken for the sustainable development of open and distance learning in Myanmar. In view to create a sustainable educational system that can generate a learning society capable of facing the challenges of the 21st century, the Ministry of Education, Union of Myanmar, has implemented many short-term and long-term educational programmes. The evenly balanced functional and effective process mechanisms implemented by open and distance learning as well as reinforced and strengthened by the e-education programmes, have indeed created and generated sustainable development in building capacity resources of the nation