The 2011 National Conference on Education has also taken this issue at hand and has called for the roll-out of computers to schools, making the use of ICTs in classrooms more flexible by deploying mobile computer labs and expanding the existing community learning centres and libraries in terms of lifelong learning and open and distance learning.

UNESCO: ICT in Education

Inaugurated by Anshu Vaish, Secretary, Department of School Education and Literacy, the conference explored ways to increase access to sustainable and learner-centred quality education and equip secondary school students with vocational skills through open distance learning.

UNESCO: Skills training: a time-bomb for India

This conference noted that open and distance learning, and specifically OERs, present opportunities to widen access to quality education.

UNESCO: MEDIA SERVICES

The announcement from the FutureLearn project sees the first major challenge from the UK, headed by the Open University, which has pioneered distance learning.

BBC: UK universities in online launch to challenge US