© 2019 JETIR February 2019, Volume 6, Issue 2 www.jetir.org (ISSN-2349-5162) JETIRAB06223 Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (JETIR) www.jetir.org 1208 Effective use of ICT Tools in Open and Distance Learning 1 A.V.R. Mayuri, Assistant Professor 2 G. Sunil Vijaya Kumar, Professor 3 K. Govardhan Reddy, Associate Professor Department of CSE, G.Pulla Reddy Engineering College (Autonomous), Kurnool 1 mayuriavr@gmail.com, 2 sunilvkg@gmail.com, 3 kamathamgovus@gmail.com ABSTRACT Information and Communication Technology (ICT) promotes quality education which plays a vital role in transforming the society and an individual. In this paper we will discuss the benefits of ICT to acquire quality education, various tools and techniques that can be used for ICT in open and distance learning. It is true that education is considered as the major source for transforming an individual for development of Nation. A developed nation possesses citizens who had quality education. Quality education includes healthy learners who are nourished well and are ready to participate and learn in addition to the supportive learning acquired from their families and other related communities. Keywords: ICT, quality education, moodle, OER, Flipped class room. 1. INTRODUCTION ICT is utilized to allude to the innovations that are utilized in making, amassing and putting away, altering and spreading data in different structures. It is an upset that utilizes PCs, web and other media transmission innovation in each part of human undertaking. ICT can grow access to instruction from multiple points of view, for example, Anytime; Anywhere, Access to remote learning assets, Motivating to master, Enhancing instructor preparing and so forth. ICT empowers students to investigate imaginative thoughts and offer their insight with specialists around the globe through ICT instruments, capacity of the student to have opportunity to learn regardless of geographic area without stress and presence of ICT in to instructive framework prompts fruitful conveyance of addresses to understudies, checking advancement of the understudies who are learning and evaluation should be possible successfully in a convenient way. 2. BENEFITS OF ICT IN ENHANCING QUALITY EDUCATION A large portion of our educators need abilities and skills for legitimate and successful utilization of ICT in instruction. It is consequently a pressing national necessity that every one of our instructors are engaged to utilize innovation successfully, to improve the nature of training. Numerous benefits can be obtained by using the ICT tools and techniques to enhance quality education. Some of them are as follows: I. Active Learning: ICT-upgraded learning assembles apparatuses for examination, estimation and investigation of data, in this manner gives a stage to understudy request, investigation and development of new data. Students have opportunity to learn as they like and, at whatever point proper, they take a shot at genuine issues top to bottom, making adapting not so much dynamic but rather more applicable to the student's life circumstance. Thusly ICT upgraded learning advances expanded student commitment. ICT-upgraded learning is additionally "without a moment to spare" learning in which students can pick what to realize when they have to learn it. Online instructive system, and flipped-classrooms with related instructional method of dynamic learning, have immediately risen as the backbone of compelling training in this century. II. Collaborative learning: ICT-upheld learning supports association and participation among understudies, educators, and specialists paying little mind to where they are. Aside from demonstrating