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INSTITUTE OF MANAGEMENT TECHNOLOGY CENTRE FOR DISTANCE
LEARNING
GHAZIABAD
Subject Code : CAM Time allowed : 180 minutes Subject Title :
Computer Aided Management Maximum : 50 marks Instructions: (a)
Answer any four questions choosing from Section-A and each question
carries 9 marks.
Section-B (Case Study) is compulsory and case study carries 14
marks. (b) No doubts/clarifications shall be entertained. In case
of doubts/clarifications make reasonable assumptions and
proceed.
SECTION-A (Answer any four questions from this section)
1. a) Define Computer system. How do you classify the computers
into various categories? b) Express the given number in other
indicated numbers system : (23)10 = ( ? )2 = ( ? )16
2. What are the various parts of the central processing unit and
explain how does it functions.
3. What are the various categories of monitors? What are the
criteria of comparing various types of monitors?
4. Windows (XP/2000) Professional is the most manageable,
reliable, with improved hardware support and increased software
compatibility Operating System. How would you perform the following
tasks in Windows (XP/2000) Professional?
(a) Restore deleted file and folders (b) Change your computer
name (c) Create a bootable diskette
5. A table is made up of rows and columns of cells that you can
fill with text and graphics. Tables are often used to organize and
present information. How can the following tasks be performed in MS
Word Tables?
(a) Perform calculation in a table. (b) Referencing cells in a
table. (c) Merge Table cells.
6. Explain the needs of various functions in a spread sheet
package and illustrate with suitable examples.
7. What is a Title master? How does it help to provide
consistency in your presentations? What are the other features of
MS PowerPoint that provide consistency in your presentation?
SECTION-B (Case Study is compulsory)
From Teaching to Learning
Education is an intervention to aid a child (or an adult) in
discovering his or her place in the world, to evolve the best fit
between his/her self and the world, faster and better than he/she
could attain from direct experiences. You can work hard to secure
all kinds of degrees, but these will be of limited benefit if they
are not able to help you carve out the desired place for your self
in the social and economic structures of society. We human beings
are uniquely endowed with the ability to learn from communicated
experiences of others as also from our direct experiences (which
together form spontaneous or informal education). Many of us get,
in addition, the facility of organized systems of learning (formal
education). Both of theses are equally important influences in
shaping an individual. Formal education should, in fact, have the
purpose of strengthening appropriate social norms in individuals,
and of putting the informal education one receives in the
perspective of distilled experience of the ages. There should
always be enough room within the range of social options for a
learning person to find and accumulate knowledge in her/his own
way. To be effective, the two accumulation of direct/communicated
experience and formal education- should bear a symbiotic
relationship with each other. They must reinforce each other.
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What then should be the goal of our educational system?
Precisely and simply, to use formal education in schools to shape
and reinforce informal education. That is the only way children
really learn and grow enabled by their knowledge. They should later
move to higher, speciality based education on the basis of aptitude
and choice. Another important consideration, especially for a
poorer country like ours, is to straightway focus on vocational
education and economically useful skills. Vocational education is
best imparted in the context of immediate personal
inclinations/capabilities and workforce requirements. We also have
to greatly strengthen distance learning and continued education.
These are, on one hand, great supplement to formal education
structures, and on the other, they afford equal opportunity to
those who for various reasons can not avail of formal structures.
Altogether, we need to refocus educational processes and resource
to hone the native competencies of individuals and provide them
meaningful social and economic enablement. Then alone education can
be said to deliver its real purpose-to give us freedom. It gives us
freedom of choice about our lives and careers.
But how do our children get education today? Their world in
school may have little relation to what they get to see around
them; they have to be made to learn by using external inducements
of success, or simply of physical pain and comfort. They are
introduced to certain set of information clubbed together into
subjects. They are not therefore learning about things that
necessarily have any association with the world they experience;
they are learning about subjects often without the conforming the
objects to identify with. They then emerge as good, average or bad
at these subjects. The problem is that educational products today
are mass produced. This induces standardization, and squeezes out
the individual and immediate community context from education.
A child responds best to a learning process that is built around
the things of interest in his or her environment. Access to
networked resources on the Internet allows the unlimited
information available to be data-mined and collated to a specific,
chosen context. The interest of a child from a farming community,
for example, can easily be fixed over the wriggly worms that
emerged out of the soil in the fields whenever it rains. He will be
excited to know that these creatures do not spoil anything for the
farmer, but are actually his friends. They help aerate the soil and
increase its water holding capacity. He will not have to be
persuaded to explore the Internet resources on the concepts of
aeration and water holding capacity of the topsoil. He can then be
taken to the issue of loss of fertility of soil exposed to rapid
drainage, something he can actually go and see in the fields. The
role of the forest in holding soil and preventing loss of soil
arability would then be easy for him to comprehend. A child from
fishing community, on the other hand, will be more tuned in to
ecological issues relating to the beaches. She might like to know
how underground seawater ingress works on soil and what kind of
practices promote it. You have the two sets of students who are
environmentally very aware but have learned through very different
routes.
The use of new technologies in education should focus on
enabling the students to become co-creators of their learning
environment along with teachers and parents. It is time that we
become more open to experimenting with giving our children a bigger
say in their own learning. We hope we all now better appreciate
that children live in world of their own, which is not entirely
accessible to adults, even to professional educators. Children
listen and relate to their peers as to no one else. The new
education system will have a large component of peer-to-peer
communication based learning. It will make possible the creation of
a learning environment suited to a particular child in the context
of his/her situation, inclination, culture and ecology. It will
take off from the question that automatically forms in their young
minds. And the child would, at least partially, dictate the process
himself or herself.
The technology now allows for providing training anytime,
anywhere, to allow people to go through it at their own pace, to
skip the section that are not relevant to them and to repeat the
sections if they need to. The use of technology for delivering
information and facilitating the development of skills and
knowledge is revolutionising learning. Distance or online differs
from the classroom based training process as it offers just-in-time
training and allows the users to learn at their own pace. The
online education market is booming the world over and currently
considered a hotly growing sector. There are indications that
online education will follow an upward moving graph and more
organisations will follow this mode of training.
Questions 1. Education as delivered today has lost sight of its
intended purpose. Discuss in view of the situation given
in the case. 2. What are the disadvantages of standardizing mass
production method of educational system? What
should be the goal of our educational system? 3. How does
Internet make education an appropriate economic enabler for every
one as per his/her
inclination and the communitys current workforce needs? 4. What
resources are needed on your computer to receive education using
Internet?
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