Sarita Kumari
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The present book narrates the significance of ICTs in social progress, technical and market evolution, and the status of ICTs in the various regions of the world. It also discusses the barriers, impediments, and digital divides caused by ICTs. The role of governments, international community and NGOs in assisting people to achieve the larger benefits that can result form technological advances is elaboratively described in this book.
Followed traditionally. Advent of virtual classrooms and video-desktop technologies promises interesting possibilities of teaching and learning at anyplace, anytime and anywhere. Today, a shift in education is becoming evident where more responsibility is being placed on the individual for his or her learning, instead of solely on the teacher. Subsequently, the teacher’s role is also changing. Education is becoming lifelong learning and training process, ...
In the new century, there is great demand for and wider diversification in higher education, as well as increased awareness in its vital importance for socio-cultural and economic development and for building the future. Higher education includes all types of studies, training for research at the post-secondary level, provide by universities or other higher educational institutes, approved by the State. There is expanding demand for knowledge-based skills in the ...
Today, education has become a more structured and institutionalized process that often consists of years of schooling or a lifetime of learning, and that serves as a means to different ends, depending on the specific environments in which we live. But while it may have evolved into a more systematic experience over time, education still forms the basis of much thought, communication, and interaction, and can be expected to continually adapt to meet the needs of ...
This book on education aims at bringing out the benefits of revising the curriculum suitably to suit the changing needs of society so that the learner may derive maximum benefit from the education he receives and in turn serve the society in a better way. Innovation in education is the need of the hour. Things have changed radically over the past few decades in this age of knowledge explosion curriculum has not. The work aims at discussing the subject of ...
A teacher's role in a society is one of tremendous responsibility and importance. If a child is future. In such circumstances, teacher education becomes very important. It is a process that needs elaborate planning followed by action. Training of teachers today has assumed more importance than even before. And it has become a contnous process that goes on even during the service period of a teacher. This book discusses different dimension of varied importance ...
This text, Handbook of Education is an important and practical manual of education aimed at providing guidelines to the proper training and personality development of a man through symmetrical cultivation of all his noble faculties. The moral education is the most important branch of common school education of a child. The cultivation of the intellectual faculties combined with moral education can certainly develop personality of man and nation can prosper in the ...
This book on educational technology gives the reader a deep insight into the need for increasing use of technology and the benefits and accrue from it. There are a number of issues that find mention in the book. The past government policy and plans and current improvements over past policies with regard to technology's use in education are discussed in detail. Teaching methods, role of information technology and computer, education of teachers, teaching aids etc. ...
In a country teeming with millions of illiterates any promise to hasten the elimination of illiteracy through innovative tools will have an instant appeal. Education Technology holds out one such promise. It seeks to re-inforce the attack on illiteracy, with the aid of radio, television, film cassette, computer and satellite programmes. The crux of the problem lies in the application of Education Technology in the field of both formal and non-formal education. It ...
Just as there are differences in personality, there are differences in the ways that students learn and use information. Just as they have different preferences and ways of learning, they also change and adjust their learning strategies based on their own development and on the different learning situations in which they find themselves. The insights into how students learn, their conception of learning, differences in learning styles and background of students ...
Teachers play an important and dynamic role in providing educational opportunities to students and in making school more efficient and effective. Today, in the changing educational context, teachers are experiencing expanded duties and expectations in a variety of educational settings. To meet the increasing needs of students and to maximize the effectiveness of curriculum, teachers need to develop and update their skills and competencies continuously. The ...
Student evaluation and assessment are central to every school and classroom. It is how teachers find out what students are learning, how they are progressing, and how teachers can development. With requirements for testing and standards-based instruction at an all-time high, effective student evaluation is more essential today than ever. Both research and current practices support the use of structured assessment and placement of students in remedial courses. ...
Instruction is the purposeful direction of the learning process and is one of the major teacher class activities. Professional educators have developed a variety of models of instruction, each designed to produce classroom learning. Each model differs in the specific type or measure of learning that is targeted. Which instructional method is “right†for a particular lesson depends on many things, and among them are the age and developmental level of the ...
Teaching is an art-with scientific basis. There are no â€best†teaching skills useful to any and all classrooms. Teaching requires to make many decisions about the arrangement of content (curriculum) and the type of delivery system used (instruction) to teach the content. Making useful decisions about the teaching requires knowledge and understanding of the various curricular and instructional factors that operate in the classroom, alternative conceptions of ...
Expansion of education means development. In the journey of development, education has widened its boundaries by assuming different forms. Lack of education plus development, if any, leads to inclucate the feeling of distress mixed with the faded pleasant experiences. It would be proper if a person is offered with some career information and career guidance. The modern techno-industrial progress has forced each person to look every aspect of his personality. In ...