IMPORTANCE OF ICT IN EDUCATION
Introducing ICT into education is a rising trend Expecially where the education has outgrown the physical constraints of the classrooms and acquired mobility.
Students access information whenever and wherever they want, and institutions that provides such advanced technological terrains is rising in number day by day.
What Is ICT ?
Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) is a broader term for Information Technology (IT), which refers to all communication technologies, including the internet, wireless networks, cell phones, computers, software, middleware, video-conferencing, social networking, and other media applications and services enabling users to access, retrieve, store, transmit, and manipulate information in a digital form.
Importance of ICT in education?
ICT permeates all aspects of life, providing newer, better, and quicker ways for people to interact, network, seek help, gain access to information, and learn.
Besides its presence everywhere, Information and Communication Technology has an immense economic significance.
- Policy ‐makers accepts that ICT in education can help the students to compete in the global economy by being part of a skilled workforce and facilitate social mobility by:
- Enhancing learning experiences and providing new sets of skills,
Reaching more students with Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs),
- Facilitating the training of faculties,
- Minimising costs and saving time associated with information delivery and automating regular day-to-day tasks,
- Improving the administration of institutions to enhance the quality and efficiency of service delivery.
- ICT is a useful support mechanism, capable of rendering design and production more robust, effective, and efficient through the use of computer-based precision engineering, virtualized systems, and computer simulation.
- As with manufacturing, ICT has numerous applications in the health care sector – many of which have had a game-changing effect on patient care, public health, running costs, and the traditional bureaucracy associated with the medical profession and life sciences.
