A STUDY OF ATTITUDE AND PERCEPTION OF THE LEARNERS TOWARDS DISTANCE EDUCATION IN RELATION TO THEIR BIOGRAPHICAL FACTORS

Distance education may play an increasingly important role during this decade in helping
address the growing shortage of teachers, educational administrators and other
educational professionals experienced in both developing and developed countries. In
this study, with the help of one self made tool and a sample of 150 graduate distance
learners, it is revealed that gender plays no important role to develop positive attitude
and perception. It means, both male and female learners have similar positive attitude
towards distance education and biographical factors i.e. locality, stream, SES and caste
plays a vital role to develop positive attitude towards distance education