Economic Importance of the Distance Education Expert

Abstract

The communication and information technologies are undergoing a major innovation process in our day. The new education technologies have had positive reflections on the traditional and distance education systems and are being used extensively in these areas. In the global competition environment, knowledge has become an important commodity for the distance education institutions. The intellectual capital stocks to create and protect knowledge and to develop it into a competitive element are equally important as the physical capital stocks for the distance education institutions. In this chapter, the job skills, workplace effectiveness, economic and environment friendly actions, personal capital, intellectual capital, personal well-being of the distance education expert and his/her contribution to economic growth and human development are discussed.