Survey of Distance Education Role In Utilization 
Of Environment Components In Higher Education

Authors : Seyedeh Zahra Shamsi PAPKIADE, Seyed Mohammad SHOBEIRI, Mohammad Reza SARMADI

Pages : 249-260

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Publication Date : 2013-09-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :Across the globe, life skills education has been usually developed as part of a school initiative designed to support the healthy psychosocial development of children and adolescents. In other side, formal education system not always provides young people with good opportunities to become confident and realize their potentials. In this back drop, the biggest challenge is to identify the best strategies for providing effective life skills education to those many children who never attend secondary school or reach an age of high vulnerability and risk taking behaviour in the years immediately before reaching secondary school. Considering the situation that in different parts of the world, majority of the youths is having a mobile or will have a mobile soon, the researcher is of the view that mobile phones can be a viable option to offer life skills education to open schooling students coming from different cultural and social settings and backgrounds. Following this approach, present paper mainly discusses about: promises offered by mobile phones for life skills education; possibilities for using mobile phones as an effective, efficient and economical option for offering life skills education; and potential strategies to offer mobile phones supported life skills education to open schooling students.
Keywords : Mobile Phones, Open Schooling Students, Life Skills Education, M learning Strategies