An Assessment Of Practices And Challenges Of Distance Education In Ethiopia In The Case Of Ethiopian Civil Service And Alpha College Of Distance Study

The intent of this study was to find out the practice and challenges of distance mode of teaching.rnThe study was conducted with reference to Ethiopian Civil Service College and Alpha UniversityrnCollege of Distance Studies. The researcher made A wassa and Debre Brehan as the sites of thisrnstudy.rnA comparative case study method was used; questionnaires, interviews, observation andrndocument analysis were employed for data gathering while learners, tutors, center coordinatorsrnand some documents were taken as sources of data. Then the collected data have been analyzedrnand the major findings spelled out. Accordingly, the distance education program has enabledrnadults to have access to education who otherwise couldn't join the higher institutions regularrnprogram due to various reasons.rnHowever, during the conduct of the distance program many challenges such as lack of trainedrnman power, absence of various learning materials, absence of close follow- up to meet learners'rninterest, learners' financial constraints and lack of transportation and inconvenience of tutorialrncenters were observed.rnFinally, some important points of the study were summarized. And then the conclusion wasrndrawn from it about the implementation of distance program. At the end some recommendationsrnwere madefor observed challenges or problems of the distance program.

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