Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning

This paper tries to answer two questions: How to bring the school drop-outs into the mainstream graduate study? How does mobile learning enhance the learning capacity of those learners? In India nearly half of the students enrolled in the schools dropped out and the pursuance of higher education is...

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Main Author: Chandran, Subramaniam
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2010
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Online Access:https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2002/1/LLL_-_T2_-_05.pdf
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description This paper tries to answer two questions: How to bring the school drop-outs into the mainstream graduate study? How does mobile learning enhance the learning capacity of those learners? In India nearly half of the students enrolled in the schools dropped out and the pursuance of higher education is very low when compared with developed countries. Still, India remains a largest higher education sector next only to USA and China. This study explains how a preparatory course helps the rural drop-outs to qualify themselves to pursue graduate programme through distant education. It also explains how mobile learning helps them to enhance their capacity in learning despite their rural background and other disadvantages. This study finds a significant increase in their learning capacity and mobile learning seems to be a viable alternative where conventional system could not reach the rural drop-outs. This paper explains these issues out of the study conducted among the distant learners of Vinayaka Missions University located at Salem in India.
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spelling uum-20022011-01-03T05:08:24Z https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2002/ Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning Chandran, Subramaniam LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education This paper tries to answer two questions: How to bring the school drop-outs into the mainstream graduate study? How does mobile learning enhance the learning capacity of those learners? In India nearly half of the students enrolled in the schools dropped out and the pursuance of higher education is very low when compared with developed countries. Still, India remains a largest higher education sector next only to USA and China. This study explains how a preparatory course helps the rural drop-outs to qualify themselves to pursue graduate programme through distant education. It also explains how mobile learning helps them to enhance their capacity in learning despite their rural background and other disadvantages. This study finds a significant increase in their learning capacity and mobile learning seems to be a viable alternative where conventional system could not reach the rural drop-outs. This paper explains these issues out of the study conducted among the distant learners of Vinayaka Missions University located at Salem in India. 2010 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://repo.uum.edu.my/id/eprint/2002/1/LLL_-_T2_-_05.pdf Chandran, Subramaniam (2010) Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning. In: Lifelong Learning International Conference 2010 (3LInC’10), 10 - 12 November 2010, Seri Pacific Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (Unpublished) http://3linc.uum.edu.my/
spellingShingle LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
Chandran, Subramaniam
Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning
title Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning
title_full Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning
title_fullStr Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning
title_full_unstemmed Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning
title_short Reaching the rural drop-outs: Capacity building through mobile learning
title_sort reaching the rural drop outs capacity building through mobile learning
topic LC5201 Education extension. Adult education. Continuing education
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