Role of ICT in Higher Education: Trends, Problems, and Prospects

This new volume provides an informative collection of chapters on ICT and data analytics in education, helping to lead the digital revolution in higher education. The chapters emphasize skill development through ICT, artificial intelligence in education, policies for integrating ICT in higher education, and more. The book focuses mainly on technological advancements in ICT in education, the perceived role of ICT in the teaching-learning transaction, pedagogy for teaching-learning in the 21st century, student-centered learning based on ICT, learning analytics, online technologies learning, tools for technology enhanced learning, distance education and learning, the effective use of ICT in management education, experiences in ICT for technology-enhanced learning, influence of ICT in research development in higher education, role of teachers in direct classroom teaching in web-based education system, and role of ICT in innovation capacity building. The case studies help to illustrate the ideas and concepts discussed in the chapters.

Gopal Singh Latwal, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management at the Institute of Information Technology and Management, New Delhi, India. He has more than 14 years of academic and industry experience. He has authored two textbooks and edited two books and has published research papers in journals. He has also delivered expert lectures at Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU), New Delhi, and regularly delivers lectures for faculty development programs.

Sudhir Kumar Sharma, PhD, is a Professor and Head of the Department of Computer Science at the Institute of Information Technology and Management, affiliated with Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, New Delhi, India. He has published several research papers in international journals and at international conferences and is an associate editor for the International Journal of End-User Computing and Development and editor of the proceedings of ICETIT–2019. He is a convener of ICRIHE–2020.

Prerna Mahajan, PhD, is Director and Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Institute of Information Technology and Management, Janakpuri, New Delhi, India. She has worked on several research projects funded by the Indian government and private bodies. She has a wide range of experience both in academics and administration and has published and presented research papers at conferences and in international and national journals.

Piet Kommers, PhD, is an early pioneer in media for cognitive and social support and has been developing educational technology for teacher training since 1982. He is an Associate Professor at the University in Twente, The Netherlands, and an adjunct/visiting professor. He coordinated the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Cognitive Technologies and several Joint European Research Projects on multimedia, web-based learning, teacher education, virtual 3D worlds, constructivist learning, social media, web-based communities, etc.