ASSIGNMENT

Subject : EDU 03: Technology and

Communication in Education

Topic : Resource centers and Services in Educational Technology

Submitted to : Sherin Mary Ma’am

Submitted by : Jessamma .L

Optional : English, 1^st year B.Ed.

RESOURCE CENTRES AND SERVICES IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

“Educational technology is the problems of education and training and it is characterized by a disciplined and systematic approach to the organization of resources for learning”

-I.K.Davies

Education technology has the potential to provide equal opportunities in several ways. Access to educational technology at school can give students from low income homes, where there is little or no access to technology, “a needed edge to compete with children from more affluent homes where technology is common place in other words we can say that guaranteeing access for all classrooms to affordable educational technology in order to achieve curricular goals makes it possible to begin to address the inequities that exist among schools. Grabe and Grabe note that technology in the form of telecommunications allows access to people access to interactive services through online discussion groups, interactive conference and interactive tutorials and access to files through online databases, library holdings texts and graphic files on the internet.

1. CIET (NCERT)

The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) is established in 1984 and funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. The institute is located at NIE campus, NCERT in New Delhi.

The NCERT undertakes programmes related to research, development and training extension and dissemination of educational innovations.

Publication of school text books and other educational materials like teachers’ manual/guides etc. are its major function.

The NCERT was established in 1961. It functions as a resource center in the field of school education and teacher education.

The central institute of educational technology is an autonomous organization formed as a nodal agency under the NCERT, for promoting the use of mass media technology for expanding and improving the quality of education at school level.

The origin of the institute was affected by merging two departments of NCERT, Centre for Educational Technology and Department of Teaching Aids, with an aim to make the new age technologies in mass media available at the school level.

The function of CIET is to improve the quality in education and to design and develop alternative learning system in the society.

2. SIET

v The state institute of educational technology is responsible for the planning, research, production and evaluation of educational software’s like video, audio programmes and computer multimedia.

v SIET Kerala is the latest array of 7 SIET’s in the country.

v Established on 1998.

v Main activities are Educational TV programmes, educational film festivals, CD Library project.

v Designing and production of teaching aids, research and develop learning materials for blind students, production of educational programmes for telecast are major goals of SIET.

v Prominent institute in educational electronic mass medium, experienced panel of production teams, strong network in the state, enriched audio/video library, creative facilities for outside production, strong training faculty in ETV production are the major strengths of SIET.

3.UGC-CEC

The Consortium for Educational Communication popularly known as CEC is one of the commissions of India. It has been established with the goal of addressing the needs of higher education through the medium of television along with the appropriate use of emerging Information Communication Technology (ICT).

Gyan-Vigyan Vimuktye (knowledge liberates) is the motto.

UGC is formed on 1956 and its Headquarters is in New Delhi.

Pro. D P Singh is the chairman and it is affiliated to the Department of Higher Education, Ministry of Human Resource Development.

To enquire into the financial needs of the universities, Allocate and disburse grand to universities and colleges for their development and maintenance, promote and co-ordinate university education, institute fellowship and scholarship, advising central and state government on the measures for the improvement of university education are the functions of UGC.

To ensure the quality of university education, to develop universities as the center of excellence, to access the financial need of the universities and formulate and implement proper plans and programmes, to co-ordinate, determine and maintain the standards of university education are the objectives of UGC.

Consortium for educational communication (CEC), is an inter university center was established by UGC on 26^th may 1993 under section 12 of its act.

Present director is Jagat Bhushan Nadda.

CEC is a nodal agency at national level to address the educational needs of the country through the use of various modes of communication such as TV, radio, EDUSAT and internet.

Close coordination, facilitation, overall guidance and towards the activities of the media centers set up by UGC in various universities through the country is the major objective of CEC.

4. EDUSAT

EDUSAT is a communication satellite also known as GSAT-3.

Launched on 20^th September 2004 from Sathish Dawan space center.

EDUSAT means educational satellite. In its broad sense means education through satellite.

It is the first full fledges satellite and the first to serve in education sector.

It was launched to geostationary transfer orbit, which is an elliptical one. The orbit is 36000KM high from earth.

EDUSAT facility can be setup in two ways, RTO- Read Only Terminals (one way audio and one way video) and SIT- Satellite Interactive Terminal (one way video and two way audio).

The main aim is to meet the demand for an interactive satellite-based distance education and for providing connectivity to school, college and higher-level education and also to support the non- formal education.

It covers all geographical areas inside the country and can provide consistency to education.

It can provide interactive and cost-effective education.

It is useful to implement virtual classrooms in remote and rural schools. And can provide audio visual medium and interactive medium facility.it can open up many possibilities like online teaching video conferencing etc.

It can be used at all levels of education from primary school to professional courses and can facilitate the provision of equality in educational opportunity.

EDUSAT was planned for 7 years, it achieved 6 years. On September 30, 2010 it was deactivated and moved to the graveyard orbit.

5. NME-ICT

The National Mission on Educa5tion through Information and Communication Technology (NME-ICT) is a centrally sponsored scheme to leverage the potential of ICT, in the teaching learning process.

The mission approved by the government of India on the 2^nd January, 2009.

NME-ICT launched on 3^rd February, 2009.

NME-ICT includes the three cardinal principles of educational policy are access, equity and quality.

The mission has two major components, first one to for providing connectivity along with the provision for access devices, to institution and learners and the second one for content generation.

Launched by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), government The objective is to raise the level of education in India and aims to transform the education system, teachers and students.

Opportunity to all the teachers and experts to pool their collective wisdom for the benefit of every Indian learner and result in effective teaching and learning process.

Anytime availability of desired knowledge at appropriate levels of comprehension to all for self-learning and effective utilization of intellectual resources, minimizing wastage of time in scouting for opportunities are some functions of NME-ICT.

SAKSHAT is an official website of NME-ICT, it provide updates on the National Mission on Education through ICT (NME-ICT) and manage the scholarships of MHRD.

6. NPTEL

NPTEL is National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning.

NPTEL is where the knowledge is free for anyone, anytime and anywhere. It is a joint initiative of IITs and IISE.

It is a project funded by Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD) was conceived in 1999 to pave the way for introducing multimedia and web technology to enhance learning of basic science and engineering concepts.

NPTEL has been offering self-study courses across engineering, humanities and science streams for more than a decade. From 2014 march NPTEL has been offering online certification for its courses.

It provides E-learning through online web and video courses. Where web courses are in pdf and HTML format and are available for download, with lessons in text format. The video courses include video files, and the classroom lectures are delivered in IIT classroom is recorded and made available.

POC (Single Point Of Contact) will act as a connecting link between NPTEL and students, disseminating information as and when required.

NPTEL and colleges interact and engage directly and it is called LOCAL CHAPTER. It includes students and mentors of college, faculty and teachers from IITs, NPTEL office and SPOC at college.

7. KITE

Kerala Infrastructure and Technology in education (KITE) is formally known as IT@SCOOL.

Developed to support ICT enables education in schools of Kerala.

Launched on august 7, 2017 in Thiruvananthapuram. The logo was launched by Kerala chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan.

It is the first SPV (special purpose vehicle) company funded by KIIFB

Works under the Department of General and Higher Education of Kerala.

IT@SCHOOL was established in 2001.

At 2017 IT @SCHOOL was promoted to a government company named KITE.

KITE was the first SPV of Nava Kerala Mission.

ICT training, internet training, training on ICT5 enabled content, IT training for visually challenged, animation training for students (ANTS) are the main training programs provided by KITE.

LITTLE KITES’s IT CLUB is a unique initiative of KITE. It has over 1 lakh student members.

Launched on 22 January 2018 at Thiruvananthapuram by chief minister Pinarayi vijayan.

It is the largest student network in the country.

Little kite’s camp are occasional IT camps conducted under little kite’s club. Core subjects like animation, cyber safety, Malayalam computing, hardware and electronics, mobile app, programming, robotics, e-commerce, e-governance, video documentation and web TV are taught for the students.

8. VICTERS CHANNEL

Versatile ICT enabled resource for students.

Was inaugurated by APJ Abdul Kalam former president of India, on 25^th July 2005 in Thiruvananthapuram.

The telecast of programmes started in August 2006 through assistance of EDUSAT. It was inaugurated by former chief minister of Kerala V.S Achuthananthan on 3^rd August 2006.

The channel is telecasted for 17 hour a day from 6 AM to 11 PM.

The studio complex of VICTERS was inaugurated on 10^th February by former chairman of ISRO, Dr. Madhavan Nair.

It is a service of KITE.

It has two modes of operation. 1. Interactive mode, it is for video conferencing and other educational training purpose and it is facilitated through satellite interactive terminals. 2. non-interactive mode, it is for educational content delivery at schools and homes via ROTs

By the assistance of EDUSAT, the IT@SCHOOL and the education department has created history by launching an educational channel for the students and teachers of Kerala to strengthen their quality in teaching as well as learning process.

It caters to the students and teachers on a need-based manner, and programs are aired on demand, sensitive to school curriculum.

9. AKSHAYA PROJECT

Akshaya project was launched as an e-literacy project on November 18^th 2002 by Dr. A P J Abdul Kalam.

Piloted in the district of Malappuram.

Mission is to bridge the ‘Digital Divide’.

Works in PPP model- presently 2621 centers across state delivering G2C and B2C services to citizens.

The main aim was that the government constituted the information technology mission for achieving transparency and speed in administration so as to make it more responsive to the needs of the people and for the grass roots level application of information technology as a part of social engineering for development.

100 percent literacy, delivering of G2C services, single window for all services, friendly face of government, empowering citizen through ICT are the major objective of the project.

Single window for all services on 2^nd July 2009 through a government order.

E-learning was in collaboration with INTEL and IGNOU.

Insight is one of the unique e-learning programs for visually challenged.

Digital empowerment of the state is the major outcome.

10. GYAN DARSAN

v GYAN DARSAN is a satellite based educational TV channel.

v Started on 26^th January 2000

v It carries information’s from educational organizations like UGC, CITA, NCERT, NIOS, IITs, TTTI s.

v Operating through a C- band transponder on INSAT3C as a free-to – air channel has been upgrade as a completely digital one with effect from 26^th January 2003.

v Gyan Darsan- I, beams round the clock programs acquired from UGC, NCERT, IGNOU, CIET, SIRT.

v Gyan Darsan- II, is a one way video and two way audio satellite interactive system.

v Gyan Darsan – III, is also known as ‘Eklavya’. It offers programs for vocational and technical education.

v Gyan Darsan – IV, it is also known as ‘Vayas’. It serves to the higher education sector.

v Gyan Darsan – V, dedicated to be launched soon. It will be dedicated to the programme on science, technology and sustainable.

11. INFLIBNET

Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET) initiated by the UGC in April 1991. Head quarters at Gujarat University Campus, Ahmadabad. It became an independent, autonomous Inter University center (IUC) of UGC in May 1996. To promote scholarly communication among academicians and researchers, to provide speedy and efficient services to the end users, to modernize the library and information centers in the country are the major objectives.

The needs of INFLIBNET are information explosion, diversity of user needs, financial crunch, Impossibility of self-sufficiency and emergence of new subjects.

E-consortium are e-shodhsindhu, UGC-INFONET Digital Library Consortium, NLIST programme.

In the umbrella of INFLIBNET many services and activities are run for the development of Indian higher education to each and every people of India.

CONCLUSION

The specific aim of educational technology is to provide incredible resources for the development education. By integrating information and communication technology into school curriculum, a fundamental shift will be taking place in the teaching and learning process. In setting up on educational technology resources centers have to addresses main aspects such as determination of the equipment required hard ware and software, securing required funds so as to cover initial costs such as maintenance and technical assistance providing professional development for the educators. The requisite skills of the learner are developed by facilitating information technology in schools and colleges and it will help them to prepare for the job markets in the 21^st century. Thus technology can become the force that equalizes educational opportunities of all children regardless of location social and economical factors.

REFERENCE

Fundamental aspects of educational technology –Yogendra. K. Shama