Information and communication technologies are making inroads into the educational system all over the world. The mass media has also been pressed into service to complement education and research in many countries including India. The new electronic media are bringing information and education closer and closer day by day. As a result, self-learning has become a common feature and more and more academic institutions are being converted into virtual campuses. This book highlights the current technologies being applied in education and research. It also describes how the new technologies and their various applications in radio, television, communications, computers, Internet, intranet and multimedia are being rapidly adopted to facilitate learning in a better way. The book will be useful for the students of education educational administrators and library and information professionals.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amjad Ali
Amjad Ali (Ph.D. in Library and Information Science) started his career from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. He was appointed founding Librarian of the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi in 1983, where he served as In-charge, Library Resource and Documentation Unit for over a decade. He was also appointed Academic Counselor with Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) for Bachelor of Library and Information Science course. In 1993, he joined Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Deputy Librarian, where he still continues. In the meanwhile, he has been on a foreign assignment as Information Specialist with King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Amjad Ali has to his credit, four books and over 30 research papers on application of IT in academic libraries, which have been published in leading journals of Library and Information Science. Presently, he is a Council Member of the Indian Library Association and also the Chairman of its Sectional Committee on Oriental Libraries.
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