The quality of research methodology for distance education should be stepped up in proportion to the revolutionary technology that is available to the sector with the launch of Edusat, said the Vice-Chancellor of Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi, H.P. Dikshit, here on Monday.

Delivering the inaugural address at the five-day National Workshop on Research Methodology for Distance Education at Dr.B.R.Ambedkar Open University, Prof.

Dikshit said that a new era had begun with the launch of Edusat and a massive futuristic research was required to step up the quality of distance education which has now become as important and as well recognised as the conventional form of education.

With UGC, Indian Council of Technology, NCERT, etc., providing 100 satellite links each in the next two months, the `distance educators' were better placed to manage the enormous scope that would be extended to learners all over the country, he said adding that it was time to evolve new strategies, improve the quality of research to provide excellent content to the students and monitor and evaluate the feedback from them.

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