The Impact Of Information And Communication Technology In Education

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INTRODUCTION
Today, technology is the need of the day and one of the mainly discussed subjects of our day by day survives. Face book, Email, Whatsapp, Twitter, computers, smart-phones and tablets are some of the words almost everyone is familiar with. The conventional teaching deliverance system has been a classroom setting with a professor giving a lecture and students listening and writing notes. Interaction between the professor and student has been viewed as vital learning component within this arrangement. However, innovations in educational technology use of raised area as delivery mechanisms have challenged this model. Advances in Information Technology (IT) are enabling little used educational delivery methods such as Distance Learning (DL) to gain new life. In addition, the advances in IT have usher in a new standard, On-line Learning (OL). The result is that many universities have adopted distance and on-line education as the next logical step in educational delivery systems. These systems are being promoted as the educational pedagogy of the prospect. Technology becomes a more widespread part of the education culture. Schools and colleges cannot ignore the impact of technology and the changing face of curriculum.
The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is defined as a “diverse set of technological tools and resources used to communicate, and to create, circulate, store and deal with information”. ICT has become a very significant element of the

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