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- Title: Use of ICT Among Faculty Members of Self Financing Engineering Colleges in the Changing Higher Education Environment.
- Author : Library Philosophy and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2011
- Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 237 KB
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Introduction India actively promotes the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in education in the formal education sector today, as it has in the non-formal sector for more than 40 years. From the use of radio to spearhead the green revolution, to satellite-based, one-way and interactive television for rural development in some of the most backward districts, to today's thrust for the use of open and distance learning models to serve the larger populations, India has tried it all, with varying degrees of success. In fact, since the early 1950s, Indian policy documents have identified the need to use all media for promoting development and, implicitly, for education. The subsequent policy and plan documents on education, prepared from time to time, have chalked out a role for technology applications, especially in the non-formal education sector. Today, the country's decision-makers, at both the central and state levels, have chosen to explore the use of newer computer and Internet based ICTs for education, along with broadcast ICTs, and have been promoting the use of open and distance learning for both the formal and non-formal education sectors. The launch of a dedicated broadcast education satellite, EDUSAT, is scheduled for early 2004, with capacity for specialised educational channels and up to 5000 FM community broadcasting stations for use by educational institutions. This infrastructure will be available to all sectors of education, but primarily to publicly funded and implementing agencies that will be responsible for transmission and programming for their defined audiences.