speech on online class during for 9th class
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The information and communications technology witnessed a remarkable growth in the second half of the past century and in recent years the delivery of education has seen a rapid transformation on impact of this technology. Higher learning used to be a field reserved for a few who got access to the high towers. These have been gradually thrown open with unlimited possibilities and immense potential for imparting uniform and high quality education for everyone. The teacher as well as the taught have gained access to a wide range of media-print, radio, television, audio, video, audio/video conferencing and the tools like computers, CD-ROMs, e-mail and internet. It expanded the reach of teaching/learning process to such an extent that education at a distance became not only possible but enriching too. The University of South Pacific, through its Satellite Tutorials, manages to reach its learners even on an isolated atoll in the vast expanse of the Pacific Ocean. The Indira Gandhi National Open University has reached the people in remote districts in India with a great success. If fact, it has facilitated the transfer of focus from the teacher to the learner and the institution of instruction to the study room of the learner. Education, being an accepted resource for social and economic development, has become an easier and simple prospect, is really a significant development. The revolutionary developments in information technology has now enabled the practitioners of learning to take the classroom and campus initiatives on the cyberspace. The teacher-learner interaction, which is essential for effective learning process, has become possible at a distance, through distance education. The capacity to adopt flexible teaching-learning strategies, providing high quality education and ensuring equity in educational opportunities, particularly for the benefit of physically challenged, remotely placed and SC/ST students has become a reality. Enough has happened during a brief history of open university system. It seem to be the “wave of the future”. Everyone is expected to side this wave and benefit from this omnipresent educational system. With the cyber network expanding throughout the length and breath of country, this dream can be a reality in near future, to create informed and educated citizens.
With the advent of information technology and the Internet the concept of distance has been significantly modified. A learner anywhere, at any far off place in a distant island in a vast ocean or a next-door neighbour, can ben taught in equal terms through the Internet provided he has, of course, an access to it. Then there is a range of tele-communications media, like computer conferencing, audio- graphics, video conferencing which are provided to the distance educators. Besides, the communication media like Computer based text interactive video and CD-ROM can be used in which the learner interacts with textual information.
Media can be synchronous and asynchronous. In an asynchronous medium like computer conferencing, both learners and tutors get time to think over their respective responses and prepare messages to be put into their machine at their convenience for the conference. One can read and
re-read messages at one’s convenience, rather than set at a time.
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