Emerging Trends in Higher Education

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Paradigm of Education for Social Transformation: Role of Open University System in Creating Culture-based Social Developmental Education

Ram Takwale^*

Rationale and Context

We are aware of the three major transformations that have taken place during the last few millennia. The tribal human settled down to an agrarian society, relying on the abundance of nature and using the technology created and used by local artisans. Modern science and technology developed, used auto machines and created a new industrial society based entirely on new processes and new value systems—the industrial culture. And now, Information Communication Technology is creating a connected society—a society in which people, their living and working places and organizations ...