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Open Distance Learning: Promise of Enhanced Learning for the Future – I-by Lal Medawattegedara An OUSL graduate with his family Source:Dailynews The Open University of Sri Lanka (OUSL) is about to host a historic event in the education sector of Sri Lanka: AAOU 2021, the annual conference of the Asian Association of Open Universities (AAOU), which is Asia’s biggest and the most influential Open and Distance Learning (ODL) forum. With three days of debates, deliberation and reflections on ODL and its future about to ignite from June 1 to 3, the time was ripe to ask some pertinent questions from OUSL Vice Chancellor, Prof. Anbahan Ariadurai about ODL, OUSL and its impact on Sri Lankan people for 40 years and most importantly, how AAOU would translate into something perceptible for Sri Lanka. ...