Open learning in India has become quite popular especially after the subsequent development following the NationalPolicy of Education, 1985, which proposed the initiation of an Open University in India. Today, Open learning  has benefitted thousands of job seekers as well as those that simply desire to have higher qualification. There are a number of regional centres that caters to the needs of each region. Mizoram has also had its own regional centre since the year 2000 that looks after 9 study centres. With the current switch over from paper to digital communication, there are various speculations regarding how this will ultimately affect open learning, especially in a remote area like Mizoram where digitisation is still very much a novelty. The present paper has tried to give a brief history of open education in India and Mizoram and at the same time speculate how a digital communication system will benefit or harm open learning in the state of Mizoram.