A Study of Communication Barriers in Open Distance Learning System of Education

Samra Anjum1 Rahmat Ullah Bhatti2 Muhammad Javed Iqbal3

Abstract

Communication transmits information, ideas and feelings from one person to another. But there are certain barriers which restrict the people’s expression. These are social barriers, cultural barriers, temporal barriers, technical barriers, psychological barriers, contextual barriers and collaboration barriers. Therefore, present study was designed (i) to explore the communication barriers faced by learner in distance education and (ii) to find out the effects of these communication barriers on achievement of distance learners. Stratified random sampling  technique was used to select 380 M.Ed students from the five main regions of Allama Iqbal Open University.