Using IT in Education

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IT in education

Arindam Das, Sec-D,

Trimester-I,PGPBM

ISB&M,Kolkata


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What is IT ?

Information technology (IT), as defined by the Information Technology Association of

America (ITAA), is "the study, design, development, implementation, support or management of

computer-based information systems, particularly software applications and computer

hardware."

IT deals with the use of electronic computers and computer software to convert, store,protect, process, transmit, and securely retrieve information.

Now a days Information Technology (IT) is a general term that describes any technology that

helps to produce, manipulate, store, communicate, and/or disseminate information.

Presumably, when speaking of Information Technology (IT) as a whole, it is noted that the use

of computers and information are associated.


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Indian education scenario..some information

75.00%

80.00%

85.00%

90.00%

95.00%

100.00%

Percentage ofpopulation

Access toPrimaryeducation

Access toupper

primaryeducation

0

20

40

60

Dropot Rate

2004-05

Class I-V

Class I-VII

0102030

40506070

ClassIII

Class V ClassVII

ClassVIII

Math

Language

Science

Social Science

Marks obtained by students

1:26

1:33

1:40

1:48

Teacher StudentRatio

Primary

UpperPrimary

Source:

MHRDSource:

MHRD

Source: NCERT

Source: SES, MHRD

All data presented are of 2004-05


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Some uncomfortable truths: Primary Education

About 10% of students inage group 7-14 are out of

school

About 45% of students inGovt. Schools in age group7-10 cannot read, 13% in

age group 11-14

About 60% of students inGovt. Schools in age group11-14 cannot write, 25% inage group 11-14 cant read

75% of Govt. Schoolstudents between ages 7-10cannot do simple arithmetic

Prathamssurvey

Increasing focus onwhat is thought at

school rather than onare children in school

Effective delivery ofeducation is key

Quality and quantity ofteachers, educationmaterial, resources

are very low

Evidence shows thatComputer Assisted

Learning has improvedlearning

Key points


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IT..current usage

Greycells 18 Media, a JV between TV18 and education service

company educomp launched a 24hr. channel Topper TV

, for senior school students.

The channel has faculty from IITS, IIMS and foreign university.

It is broadcasted using DTH Services. Subscription of students

is between 40,000-90,000 already.

Everron systems Chennai, has signed an MOU with IIM Indorefor offering management programmers using the VSAT

Technology.


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IT..current usage

Srinivas Adepalli senior VP, Tata communications wants to launch

educational courses for engineering and management courses

through net using the help from Pune based Tata management training

centre Amity university has launched youth TV, to cater to students needs.

Virtual classrooms like extramarks.com and

classroomteachers.com will touch 8.5 million households by 2010 as

estimated remarked V.K.Arora director (electronic and system

administrator head) of IGNOU.


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VidyaVahini

It is govt. initiative to connect 60,000 govt. & govt. funded senior

secondary schools on internet and intranet. Though currently it is

operated as a pilot project in 140 schools of 7 districts.

Program focuses: Providing ICT infrastructure

Training teachers to use ICT infrastructure

Providing different learning resources which include differenteducation tools, course curriculum & other learning materials

Providing course content in regional languages


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VidyaVahinifacilities

Facilities:

IT education and computer aided learning Access to Internet

Online libraryAcademic services

Web broadcast

E-learning

Sharing library resources


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Hardware & Software equipments

Hardware

One Server (P-IV based), 256 MB

memory, 36 GB Hard Disk

Network Printer

10 Multimedia P-IV Personal Computers

with Web Camera

29 Flat Screen Color TV

5 KVA UPS with 15 minutes power back-

up

Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) &

Constant Voltage Transformer

Software

MS-Office (full suite) with multi-lingual support

Core CAL

Visual Studio

Encarta Reference Suite & Online Deluxe

Magic School Bus

Web Hosting Software

Software Tools (MS VISIO 2002) to prepare

proper documentation like

flowcharts, graphs, organizational planning, etc.

CBSE/State Govt. approved course curriculum

Education Software Tools

Internet access of 128 Kbps through VSAT


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VidyaVahinibasic model

Technology room: One of theclassrooms has been converted into

the Technology Classroom with

facilities like one PC interfaced with

29 Flat Screen Color TV with internetconnectivity

Teachers training lab: A teacher

training lab, a replica of the installed

infrastructure is created everydistrict to train teachers

Source: Dept. of education


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EDUSAT

EDUSAT is the first Indian satellite built exclusively to serve theeducational sector.

EDUSAT or GSAT-3 was launched in September 2004 by the Indian

Space Research Organization EDUSAT carries five Ku band transponders providing spot beams, one

Ku band transponder providing a national beam and six extended C

band transponders providing national coverage beams

A joint-initiative by IIT-Bombay & ISRO was launched on Jan1,2008

using EDUSAT network.


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EDUSAT..contd.

It started with 13 full-fledged courses on this channel and otherinstitutes(e.g. other IITs, NITs, etc.) are enabled to receive it.

Other institutes joining the program will be provided with ground

equipments In this network, ISRO already set up 45 broadcast & interactive

network covering 20 states including North-Eastern states and

Islands.

More than 30,000 classrooms have been equipped with connectivity

through EDUSAT.


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A survey

We decided to do a survey about this topic, the purpose was-

To gauge the mood of PG students of our institution as they represent

a mix of youths from different states.

Collect some primary data about perception of students about use ofIT in education.

The following are the details results of the survey-

Sample size: 30, All PGPBM students of ISB&MQuestionnaire consisted of 10 question

Likerts scale was used for taking responses, i.e. as follows

Stronglydisagree

Disagree Cant say AgreeStrongly

agree


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Survey...results

93%

7%

0%0%0%

Q1:IT should be included as acompulsory subject from school

level?

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree

33%

46%

1%20%

0%

Q2:Should certified courses on ITbe made compulsory in school and

college level?

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree


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Survey..results

20%

66%

13%

1%0%

Q3:Use of IT enhance learning.

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree

13%

46%

26%

13%

2%

Q4:Students find IT courses moreinteractive.

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree


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Survey..results

53%33%

13%

1% 0%

Q5:Use of intranet beneficial tostudents.

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree

26%

74%

0%

0%

0%

Q6:Knowledge of IT beneficial for allround student development.

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree


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Survey..results

6%13%

26%40%

15%

Q7:Virtual classroom conceptshould be incorporated in PG

Courses.

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree

13%

60%

13%

14%

0%

Q8:IT infrastructure facilitatesresearch findings.

Strongly agree

Agree

Can't Say

Disagree

Strongly disagree


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F d


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Findings

Some key problem areas in Indian education system are as follows

Performance: Only 6% of students continue studies up to collegiate level and most of those

who continue are poor in English, Science and Maths. According to DPEP Baseline survey

extent of repetition in grade I is as high as 30-40% in some states.

Teacher training: Large number of teachers are under-qualified and many more needprofessional training.

Teacher-Student ratio:

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

Qualification

HSC orless

Graduate

PG

Trained1:29

1:32

1:35

1:37

1:40

1:43

Ratio

Basic

SC

HSC0.00%

10.00%

20.00%

30.00%

40.00%

50.00%

Teachers

None

Single

Two

F d d


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Findings..contd.

Quality of material: Text books are updated infrequently and contain manyerrors. No collaborative feedback mechanism for gathering inputs from

teachers & students

Data: Though there is some system in place to collect data about primary

education but no such thing present for other levels. So all planning are basedon performance of individual institutes which is difficult and inefficient.

Lack of support materials: Teachers are not equipped with any supplementary

helps and no system is in place to share resources and ideas.

No standardized system of evaluation of performance.

Distribution system of books are inefficient and education is totally dependent

on this conventional material

P b bl IT l i


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Probable IT solutions

Helping teachers by enabling a collaborative development of teachingmaterial and making it accessible to all

Improving quality enabling mass participation in developing and maintainingmaterials

Improving operational efficiency by collecting disaggregated data and use ofinformation-based methods to procure and distribute materials

Tools for sharing instruction material among institutes

P b bl IT l ti td


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Probable IT solutions..contd.

Use supply chain management techniques to improve delivery of materials

Retaining content in electronic form to reduce delay

Constructing and maintaining nationwide registry of facilities and performance statistics forproper planning & management

For this steps to be taken two basic needs are as follows

1.Data collection and storage mechanism & 2.Data analysis mechanism

Ed ti C ll b ti N t k


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Education Collaboration Network

Principle requirements ofECN

Capability ofhandling

different levelof IT maturityand multiple

languages

Highlydistributed andable to

capitalize onexisting IT

infrastructurelike

EDUSAT, VidyaVahini

Based on openstandard forencoding and

accessingcontent

ECN A hit t


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ECN-Architecture

The basic architecture of theECN would be a web services

oriented one, based on openstandards

Components that make ECN

are all commercially availablewhich enables quick andaffordable implementation

Figure: A physical view of ECN

ECN A hit t td


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ECN-Architecture..contd.

Architecture of the system will be Client-Server Architecture

Software will be split between computer processes called client task

and server task

Client side will have facilities like offline content access, contentauthoring and collaboration depending upon he infrastructural

support

Client will be able to send and receive data from one or more server

System will be independent of any hardware and operating system

limitation

ECN Architecture contd


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ClientType

1.Thick

2.Thin

3.Low-

memory

4.Non-computingdevices P

robableoperat

ingenvironment1.Windows, Linu

x

2.InternetBrowser

3.InternetBrowser, PalmOperatingSystem

4. -

P

robableDevices1.PCs, Simputers,

High-endPDAs, Internetenabledappliances

2.PCs, Simputers,High-endPDAs, Kiosks

3.Low-endPDAs, WAP, GPRSenabled mobiles

4.Televisions, Telephones

Offerings1.Online & offline

access, Creationof multimediacontent, Collaborations

2.Web-browserbasedinfrastructure, Limitedstorage, Simple

content creation3.Contentaccess, Collaboration

4.Content access



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All clients together will be able to support different level of IT maturity Range will be from high-speed connectivity and high awareness users to limited

connectivity and users with rudimentary IT knowledge

Servers provide back-end support for different clients

Presentation

Infrastructure

Information

ServiceEnable users to access domain-specific content, Supportall client types

Basic infrastructural services that would be required byapps( System, lifecycle, workload, storage management& security)

Handle contentorganization, lifecycle, storage, distribution, authoring, search and other processes

Functions



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To support the interaction between clients and servers, presentation services of theserver will support following methods of communication:

SOAP: Simple messagequerying and retrieval

with & w/oattachments

HTTP:Request and

responses

FTP:For transferringmultimedia files

WAP: Mobile access of

information and statusupdates

Cable Network: Clientservices with non-

computing abilities forsimple audio and video

streaming

ECN Architecture >Some key points:


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ECN-Architecture->Some key points:

Network topology for ECN will evolve with its spread.

In initial stages server nodes will have to be hosted by state/regional authorities, districteducational centers or urban schools given the current economic and infrastructural condition.

Initially server platforms would run on a Virtualized environment enabling them to use storageand resources already available to ECN

This also bring down the initial expenditure.


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References


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References

References: Ministry of Human Resource Development-Data

Pratham (A NGO)-Data

NCERT-Data

Department of education-Govt. of India-VidhyaVahini network & Data IBM-For ECN Model

Angel Broking Consultancy & The Telegraph-Data

ISRO-EDUSAT

Internet-Other data & information


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