Friday 29 June 2012

Education and Technology

The only thing consistent about the time is that it will change. The same words apply to the traditional education system today. The education sector has undergone a drastic change since last decade. The reason for the same is the technological revolution in field of Information Technology.

With the modern devices like tablets, laptops and PDAs, the level of understanding of the people has increased drastically. The biggest advantage of these devices is the accessibility. With mobile devices the information sharing has become easier. People can communicate with each other comfortably sharing their knowledge. With the video conferencing facility the online lessons can be taken from experts thereby giving a more interactive and rich learning experience.

Information technology has changed the way of managing data and information in various educational institutes. Traditionally data was managed on paper and retrieving information from a bunch of documents was a Herculean task which has changed a lot by managing large databases where the query can be retrieved in few seconds.

E-commerce has contributed a lot in increasing the literacy rate of the country. The reason is use of multimedia applications and interactive software which has increased the level of understanding of people, for example audio and video component lessons help the student to engage directly with similar type of people thereby encouraging more students to participate in class and increase their level of understanding. Also it helps the disabled or disadvantaged students who were unable to study due to one or other reason.

E-commerce has made a significant contribution in imparting education through distance learning programs. A number of professionals who want to pursue courses like MBA undergo distant learning programs. So we see that how much e commerce has changed today’s educational framework. Realizing this we can expect some more miracles in the coming future.

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