Commonwealth Educational

Media Centre for Asia

Information Communication

Technology in Education

Manas Ranjan Panigrahi, Programme officer, CEMCA, New Delhi

Teacher Centred and Learner Centred

Learning Environment

Changes in Students and Teachers Role in

Learner Centred Environment

What is ICT

Information and Communication Technology (ICT)

is now playing an important role for the

dissemination of sustainable quality education

worldwide (Pal & Panigrahi, 2013)

ICT is defined as a diverse set of technological

tools and resources used to communicate, create,

disseminate, store, and manage information.

These technologies include computers, the

Internet, broadcasting technologies (radio and

television), and telephone

(Blurton, 2002)

Strengths of ICT in Education

Individualization of learning

Interactivity

Low per unit cost

Distance and climate insensitive

Can serve multiple teaching functions and

diverse audiences

High speed delivery, wide reach at low cost

Uniform quality

Weaknesses of ICT in Education High infrastructure and start up costs

Tend toward centralized uniform content in

economies of scale

Are not ideally location and problem sensitive

Problems of reach, access, remain

Tend to create new class of knowledge

rich/knowledge poor

Essentially delivery systems

Hard to assess impact

Officers, trainers need reorientation and retraining

Call for attitudinal change to understanding of

teaching and learning

Challenges of ICT in Education

Inadequate resources from

the government for ICT

Limited teachers’

technological knowledge

Limited teachers knowledge

of integrating technology in

teaching

The curriculum

Teachers attitudes

Absences of Electricity in

some schools

Lack of internet connection

in schools

Different Types of ICT/Media Technologies

used in Education

Using ICTs in Education

ICT Education

ICT Supported Education

ICT Enabled Education

Thank You