subject: Equipment You'll Need For Distance Learning [print this page] Human organiations including those involved in distance education, are complex. In the words of Briggs and Peat. Every complex system is a changing part of a greater
whole, a nesting of larger and larger wholes leading eventually to the most complex dynamical system of them of all, the system that ultimately encompasses whatever we
mean by order and chaos- the universe itself. Distance study is a rationalized method-involving the division of labor-of providing knowledge which, as a result of applying the
principles of industrial organization as well as the extensive use of technology, thus facilitating the reproduction of objective teaching activity in any numbers, allows a large
number of students to participate in universtiy study. Their place of residence and occupation. Later he acknowledged the emergence of a postmodern era in distance
education. Extending his definition to the postindustrial and the postmodern era, online mba in India can be defined as a complex, hierachical, nonlinear, dynamic, self-organized,
and purposeful system of learning and teaching. Systems science is the quintessential Jamesian tool for understanding relationships between things and not looking for a
single answer to a problem within the confines of a dogma. In postmodern science, understanding the whole involves understanding the parts, but also examining the interrelations
between the parts. The origins of the postmodern science are clearly visible in the following quotation. Human efforts are daily unifying the world more and more in definite
systematic ways. The result is innumerable little hangings-together of the world' parts within the larger hangings- together, little worlds, not only of discourse but of operation, within
the wider universe. Each system exemplifies one type or grade of union, its parts being strung on that peculiar kind of relation, and the same part many figure in many
different systems, as a man may hold various offices and belong to several clubs.
