THE CLARIFICATION OF QUALITY OF OUTPUT OF OPEN AND DISTANCE LEARNING FOR ACHIEVING DEMOCRATIC VALUE IN NIGERIA

Abstract

One of the major concerns of the open and distance learning is getting the good quality of output from the products of the system. This is based on the fact that education has been adjudged to be the instrument for excellence without which there can be no reasonable development by any society of the nation. The quality of output signifies the decent ways of life of the people receiving knowledge in course of educating in any nation. On the ground of this the paper makes a clarification of quality of output of the open and distance learning in the areas of cognitive, affective and psychomotor to show how it can be manipulated to improve the solidification of democratic value in Nigeria. The paper concludes that the quality of output is indisputably a force and catalyst for achieving democratic value through open and distance learning. It is concludes that the paper would serve as eye’s opener for an individual who wants to know much about the quality of output of the open and distance learning for achieving the democratic valu