ONLINE ACADEMIC COUNSELING-A FUTURISTIC MODEL IN DISTANCE EDUCATION FOR HEALTH SCIENCES PROGRAMMES

The present era demands inclusion of teacher student learning processes into the digitalized world of learning to keep in line with the ever-changing communication – technology. Online digital world provides a platform for varied teacher student interactions be it counseling, advising, tutoring, discussions and other services which are apt for the learners during the period they are pursuing there studies at a institution of distance learning. Keeping the basic principles of open and distance in mind, the idea of Online Academic Counseling is liberating one since it gives the chance to move towards technology-enabled learning with a presence at varied interfaces.