SUSTAINABILITY INDICES AS MEASURES OF SERVICE DELIVERY IN OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING INSTITUTIONS IN NIGERIA

Open and Distance Education if well organized, is an adequate alternative to
conventional education. For acceptability of this assertion, the public, governments,
employers of labour and other stakeholders need to be convinced that ODL institutions
are not providing half-baked education. Also, for the public and other shareholders
enthusiasm and interest that are usually hard earned to be sustained, there is need for
total commitment to the implementation of some established indices of sustainability.
The thrust of this paper is in the appraisal of the extent to which two ODL institutions in
Nigeria adhere to the principles of sustainability. A set of questionnaire was developed
and used to collect data which were analyzed using simple non-parametric statistics.
Suggestions which were aimed at improving the service delivery, in the institutions used
for the study in particular, and other sister institutions especially in the developed
countries were highlighted.