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ICT Implementation in Education-Recommendations &Way forward. Technology team 5 th November, 2012 Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi. ICT intervention to be planned in each of the below areas of School (Middle, High &Primary School) and Higher Education (UG): Lectures & e-Content
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ICT Implementation in Education-Recommendations &Way forward Technology team 5thNovember, 2012 Shastri Bhavan, New Delhi
ICT intervention to be planned in each of the below areas of School (Middle, High &Primary School) and Higher Education (UG): • Lectures & e-Content • Tutorials and Group Discussions • Assignments • Evaluation • Peer Learning • Practices (experiments) • Administration, accounts & record keeping Apart from the above, focus needs to be given to: 8. ICT infrastructure provision and management 9. Regulation, policies, interventions & norms to encourage ICT usage in Education and Pedagogy
1. LIVE LECTURES USING VIDEO ON INTERNET • Live delivery of High Quality content to students using video on high-speed internet • Enable students from all over the country to benefit from lectures by experts in the particular field of study • Allows for some controlled interactivity between students and Lecturer, as lecture will be delivered to multiple thousands of students simultaneously • Lectures could be designed and delivered at 2-4 difficulty levels to cater to different kinds of students and institutions • To be made part of the main curriculum, where rest of course/ tutorials/ Interactions handled locally at institutions
INTERACTIVE e-CONTENT • Build e-Content in the form digital textbook that will be accompanied by teaching and learning aids such as videos, animations, images, quiz modules, dictionary, reference links etc. • Learning process enhanced, as student has at his/her disposal multiple aids that enhance their understanding of the subject, than the conventional method of rote learning
3. TUTORIALS & GROUP DISCUSSIONS • Ideally after the main lecture in small groups of 10-15 students to discuss specific issues/ problem areas with their tutors and fellow students • ICT tools to be explored to enable formation of virtual groups, whereby interactive learning and group discussion can take place using audio/ video/text chat/ file sharing / white-board like tools • cannot be totally virtual: mix of in-person and ICT enabled tutorials required
4. ASSIGNMENTS • means to enhance the level of understanding of the student: • Objective/ exact answer • Subjective/long answers • Paper preparation and presentation • Immediately implement ICT tools for objective type quiz administration, submission and evaluation, as there are tools readily available for the same. • For papers and subjective formats, the evaluation by a tutor introduce peer evolution
5. EVALUATION • Computer- based evaluation of objective type questions is already in practice in large scale national examinations such as AICTE, JEE etc. • ICT evaluation of subjective type requires further research—currently Artificial Intelligence based evaluation and peer evaluation using ICT tools is being explored and experimented. • Need of the hour is to conduct more pilots and R&D, over next 2-5 years.
6. PEER LEARNING • One of the crucial aspects of the education/ learning process is peer learning and interaction. • Students build relationships through formal/informal interactions, living together, going out on trips, helping each other with course work etc. • ICT based social learning tools—Facebook, Twitter etc.-- are already intervening in this space and adding new dimension to peer-learning. • But in-person interaction is important and Inter-personal aspect of the process of learning should not be replaced but can be complemented by ICT tools.
7. PRACTICES/EXPERIMENTS • Practices form a core element of the education process both in Engineering as well as Social Science streams which supplements in-classroom learning. • Practices are of two kinds; Working with hand—which needs the physical existence and Working on equipment—for which in some cases ICT platforms/tools can be built: • Virtual labs can be used whereby the student can conduct/run experiments and tests virtuallyhaving remote access • Robots and other ICT tools have been developed for this purpose and are in use in some set-ups. • The topic needs accelerated research and development and identification of such suitable tools to enhance the process of learning
8. ADMINISTRATION & RECORD KEEPING • This includes such as attendance, fee, accounts, book keeping, MIS etc. • ICT tools are readily available for the same, and can be implemented with immediate effect at the level of High & Middle Schools and Higher Education (0-2 years) • In the case of Primary School, it can be tried in the time frame of 2-5 years
9. INFRASTRUCTURE Infrastructure availability and accessibility is most important to make sure all of the previously discussed facilities reach the students and institutions. • Availability of Devices (tablets/mobile phones/others) and associated software • Availability of Network Connectivity
10. REGULATIONS, POLICIES, INCENTIVES, NORMS Opening up of ICT based education provides scope to redo Regulations and Policies. This needs to be discussed.