ICT in Education : Perspectives on Open Distance Learning

Contents: Foreword. 1. Introduction/Sitansu S. Jena, Kuldeep Agarwal and Sukanta K. Mahapatra. 2. ICT Enabled Open and Distance Education for 21st Century/Nityananda Pradhan. 3. Challenges of Opens Schools and the Development of Satellite Campuses: Increasing Access and Improving Quality of Instructional Delivery in Teacher Training Institutions in Belize/Priscilla Brown-Lopez. 4. Transforming Formal Learning through Social Media:A Study to Increase Learners Retention/Sabina Yeasmin. 5. Distant Learners: ICT Tools for Mathematics Evaluation/Vinod Kumar Kanvaria. 6. Exploring ICT and Platforms for E Learning with K-7 Learners in a Progressive School: A Seedbed for a Prospective Open High School Programme/Juliet Aleta R Villanueva. 7. A Study on E-Learning for Bangladesh: Challenges and Opportunities/Khan Ferdousour Rahman. 8. Virtual Schools and Open Schools: A Perspective from Europe on Asia/Paul Bacsich. 9. Productive Knowledge Sharing in Open Virtual Learning Environment through Enhanced Social Presence: A Logical Analysis/J.N. Baliya. 10. Use of Mobile Phone Technology in Promoting Tutor-Learner Interaction in Open Schooling/Cherla Raja Mouli. 11. Schooling the Mobile Generation: A Critical Review of the Role Mobile Technology in Open Schooling for Education for All/Sambhu Sankar Deep. 12. Role of Information and Communication Technology and Multimedia in Learner Support Services and Delivery System: A Case Study of National Institute of Open Schooling (NIOS)/D.B. Negi and Joginder Yadav. 13. Emerging Technologies in Open and Distance Education: New Horizons for Women/Ritu Bakshi. Index. The advances in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT), as well as its infrastructure, have transformed the education system significantly in recent years. But its potentiality is still need to be explored fully to bring quality and productive outcomes in education. Contextualising the delivery of the learning resources to empower the learners and unfolding of their capabilities are the need of the hour. Accordingly, various dimensions of Information and Communication Technology are discussed in this volume with the hope that readers will learn more about the theory and practice of ICT in the field of education. It is true that there are knotty challenges that exist in the education system, but there are also a number of innovations and successful practices that need to be shared and utilised to combat the challenges and bring quality in education. The present volume offers a possibility in this direction and will be useful for Teachers, Teacher Educators, Distance Educators, ICT Experts, Researchers and the Policy Makers. (jacket).…