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India is a big country and distance learning is an education enhancer as students from remote areas are unable to learn and produce. Those eager to pursue education from remote arrears have the opportunity to go for distance learning. Also keeping in mind the working experts and their time constraints distance learning is now presented by various renowned universities. However, the quality features of the curriculum remain questionable in the absence of practical guidance. In spite of this it is rising as a great and powerful educational program that is favored by several people.The Directorate of Distance Education recognized in 1979 presents four hundred and one different programmes of study under the Regular Stream.

It is credited with the biggest enrolment in India and is fine equipped with computer and other infrastructure, satisfactory teaching faculty and administrative set-up of its own, study centers, computer training centers, etc., to provide its students' clientele in their best interest at their door steps. Perturbed by the growing number of universities offering `distance mode' courses and program through franchisees without permission from the ugc distance education council, the distance education council govt India, has decided to ban the practice.

The Distance Education and Training Council is a non-profitable educational association situated in Washington, D.C. The Council was established in 1926 to support sound educational standards and decent business practices within the correspondence field. The DETC Accrediting Commission maintains, defines and promotes educational excellence in distance education institutions. The Commission is devoted to development quality assurance, protection of the rights of the students and institutional self-improvement through charitable accreditation via peer evaluation. DETC accreditation targets to instill public confidence in DETC institutions' missions, performances, goals and resources through exact application and peer-developed accreditation standards.

DEC Approved Programmes in India

The Distance Education Council (DEC) is the top most governmental body of India, for recognizing, updating, and regulating all sorts of online education courses in all across India, provided by numerous distance learning institutions of the country. At present, there are about 230 educational institutions located in all across the entire country which offer over 300 education courses through distance learning mode, at undergraduate, graduate, and postgraduate levels. These distance education council courses are extended in almost all fields of contemporary importance and profitability, related with the sectors of academics, professions, business and commerce, industries, and services.

These distance learning institutions of India comprise of the Open and Distance Learning Institutes (ODLIs), the Open Universities which are run and managed by the Central and State governments, and some private online universities and colleges. Out of these about 30 distance education council recognized universities and colleges are rather renowned and internationally admired, owing to the ace-quality and world-class educational courses of these at varying academic and professional levels.

Today, the distance education courses rendered by the Indian online universities and colleges are being availed of satisfactorily and very gainfully by myriads of Indian and global students and professionals. Moreover, the distance education council india is dedicated and discerning enough to incorporate all contemporary up-gradation and refinements in the educational curriculums at levels diverse, in order to promote online education courses of global standards and recognition.