Advances in

Communication Technologies for

DISTANCE EDUCATION

Interactive Mode

• Send Me (Sanjaya Mishra) SMS for this Session

• TYPE <RC> <No. of students present> and SMS to (0) 9868 55 1469

• eg. BHOPAL 2

Objectives

• Describe the developments of communication technologies for distance education

• Critically examine the implications of the developments for teaching and learning at a distance

What we know so far?

Media Non-interactive Interactive

Print Textbook, pictures, SIM (partially interactive)

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Audio Audio tape, Radio, Audio vision (partially interactive)

Radio-phone in, Audiographics, Audio conference,, Telephone

Video Video tape, Television, Cable TV

Interactive TV, Vidoe teleconferencing (1 way vidoe. 2 way audio)

Integrated WWW (partially non-interactive), Radiotext, Word processing

Computer-based media, Interactive multimedia, WWW

Directions of New Developments

• Technological

• Social

• Philosophical

Satellite TV/ DTH

• Increased reach to remote areas

• IGNOU’s GD1 is available on DTH (Ku-band)

Wireless Connectivity

• Mobile Phones

• Bluetooth

• WiMax

• Global Positioning System

• Wireless LAN

Read/Write Web

• Blogs

• Wikis

• Social Bookmarking

Audio Online

• Podcasting

• Internet Radio

TV/Video Online

• On demand Video

Semantic Web• Web 1.0 : Simple HTML

pages, text, graphics, multimedia

• Web 2.0 : User Interaction, user creation, read-write web

• Web 3.0 : Search, precision, relevance, artificial intelligence, natural language processing; Resource Description Framework

• Creating a new generation of network applications (HDTV, tactile and immersive technologies)

• Creating a leading edge network capability for education and research (IP6)

• Fostering the transfer of technology to global Internet

Second Life

• Virtual World

• Avatars

Push Technologies

Miniaturization of Storage

• Flash Drives

Open Source/Open Content

Folksnomy

• User participation

• User indexing of Web

• Social Tagging

Assistive Technologies

• Providing inclusive education through use of technology

• WWW accessibility guidelines