id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_jwysj2gl4fhnfmsni6d5mju4dq Tharindu Rekha Liyanagunawardena Developing government policies for distance education: Lessons learnt from two Sri Lankan case studies 2014 27 .pdf application/pdf 7996 550 54 Keywords distance education; e-learning; developing countries; policy perspective, The opportunities offered by distance education, facilitating both part-time and fulltime study and reducing geographical constraints regarding travel and access, have come education degree courses offered by many of the state universities fell below the required "Free Education Policy" of Sri Lanka, introduced in 1947, allows every child to access University of Sri Lanka (OUSL), external degrees (distance learning programmes) to provide access to students registered in online distance education programmes offered Subsequent to our data collection, the fully-online provision of OVU's distance education programme was distance education programmes with ICTs (an example of this is YFU).  The lack of support services provided by the educational institutions for students students on the new distance learning programmes offered by OVU were also students to whom they wish to provide access to higher education. education in Sri Lanka: A case study of two universities. ./cache/work_jwysj2gl4fhnfmsni6d5mju4dq.pdf ./txt/work_jwysj2gl4fhnfmsni6d5mju4dq.txt