Sunday 30 September 2012

KEY-ROLES OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION FIELD: NOT TO BE TAKEN AS PANACEA

Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have played a paramount role and penetrated in every aspect of human activity and have a vital role to play in the field of education and training, specially, in distance education to transform it into an innovative form of experience. The need of new technologies in teaching learning process grows stronger and faster. The information age becomes an era of knowledge providing sound and unmatched feasibility for discovery, ICT and exploration to strengthen the teaching learning process. ICT help in promoting opportunities of knowledge sharing throughout and all over. Accurate and right information is necessary for Decision making, Effective teaching and learning. Learner is independent and they can make best decisions possible about their studies, learning time, place and resources, in a distance mode learning and teaching. Students are able to work in collaborative and interactive learning environments effectively communicating, sharing information and exchanging ideas and learning experiences in all walks of life. In this paper role of ICT and their application and constraints have been brought in a simple form, so that ICT is not to be taken as panacea, rather modern and useful technology to be used in our advantage.


Smita Dave 
JG College of Education for Women (P.G.) 
Opp.Gulab Tower, Sola Road, Ahmedabad-61

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