Human being in his socialization history and educational period, always have tried to establish a good contacts for to share or change their knowledge, an experiences with whom anyone established easily communicate. This is a kind of feeding way of his life. It is an obsolete necessity for mentally, physically and emotionally development of human beings. As long as people have been able to write or even draw pictures-they have tried to use those skills to send messages to other people. The invention of printing and, in 20th Century, broadcasting, has enabled human being to develop new methods of communicating with people who are not face-to-face with each, in our contemporary world this necessity is already heavily eliminated by developing mass media technology: On those days all people are in contact one or two of mass media in their all day which they are very close to his way of life or his looking angle to the world or life. It is no doubt that mass media is very close and important thing in our daily life, for example, think the television or broadcasting via satellite, as if, they are one of the our family member. These developed techniques have also made it possible to communicate with very large numbers of people through a single act of writing or broadcasting very many more people than a teacher, or lecturer, could teach in a lesson or a lecture.
Communication technologies have a manipulative power and effect on the field of education in general. These technologies have been increasingly use in education and training for many years to meet different needs. This situation, increasingly use of technologies in education and training, have brought up some new disciplines, or study fields, into education filed and E-learning. Distance education is one of the newest forms of education which basically depends on these communication and information technology. As a new and modem approach to deliver instruction, distance education has been increasingly used by many corporations and organizations for both formal and non-formal education settings in Nigeria and all around the world.
Since the Carly 1960’s there has been arising commitment to strengthen the delivery of education in Nigeria, this interest was born out of the desire to remedy perceived deficiencies in the colonial education strategy, which targeted only a few privileged people in selected regions of the country and was ill-tailored to the need of a newly independent Nigerian.
The cardinal goal of this commitment was to catalyses socio-economic development using education as a tool. By 1976, the quest for massification of quality education had translated.
A national policies on open and distance education has been enacted and included I as a part of the policy framework for the operation of the open and distance education delivery system in Nigeria.
By 1999 the programme evolved into more raburt scheme the program set within the global agenda of education for all EFA. Nigeria signified her commitment to the right of every citizen to unfettered access to education by being a signatory to the goals set by the world conference on education for all, (Jomlicn, march 1990), the education for all summit of the nine-high-population countries (new Delhi, December, 1993), the world education forum (Dakar, April 2000), and the F-9 Education ministerial Review meeting (Beijing, August 201), all of which assessed and emphasized the need for education for all by the year 2015.
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