Abstract

Distance education is a process of teaching in which a system of instruction is developed to teach pupils without having physical contact between instructor and learners. It is one of the most popular systems to educate people now a days. Many of institutions in the world are using this system to deliver education to especially deprived groups and working class in different areas. This paper aims to discuss concept of distance education with the purpose to explain its process and provide guidelines to establish quality distance education system in institutions. It concludes that distance education system needs proper structural arrangements. It demands arrangements to fill in the gap between teachers and learners who are separated to each other. Without having approach to required forms of media, experts in distance teaching, preparing the study packages to guide learner to enable them to work autonomously in advance to announce admission in courses, start of programs through this system can spoil the quality education in a country. So, institutions should evaluate their programs evaluating effectiveness of all elements. They should appoint managerial as well as academic staff or arrange trainings of current staff to provide quality education to distance learners.