Open and Distance Learning in modern times assumes the status of the most rapidly growing segment of education because of its approaches to flexible learning opportunities to individual and group learners resulting in both education and training. Thus, it is well defined as a process to create and provide access to learning when the source of information and the learners are separated by time and distance, or both.

 

Having said that, it is also pertinent to emphasize that the potential impact of distance learning on all education lies in the very use of instructional materials with visual, auditory, audiovisual and multimedia content. Self-Learning materials become extremely important in distance education due to the physical absence of an instructor to draw the attention of the learners, motivate them to learn and explain the content that learners are having difficulty in understanding.

 

In this context, the structure of self-learning materials requires careful design and implementation to hold with integrity the raw information of the participants. Continual skill upgrading, implementing and retraining the technological advances and safe use of print and web-based materials, have been the call of the hour for the effective implementation of this fastest growing area of knowledge.

 

The workshop on March 6 & 7, 2018 is an initiative in this direction and all the contributors of Self Learning Materials from Tezpur University and outside are urged to register for this workshop to take full advantage of the lecture and practical sessions that have specially been designed for them under the guidance of experts.  The workshop aims to train the authors of SLM to prepare learner friendly materials using upgraded technological devices, minimize the absence of teacher-centric mode facilitated by the face to face learning and enhance the possibility of reaching the learners with maximum output.