Information and communication technologies are making inroads into the educational system all over the world. The mass media has also been pressed into service to complement education and research in many countries including India. The new electronic media are bringing information and education closer and closer day by day. As a result, self-learning has become a common feature and more and more academic institutions are being converted in to virtual campuses. This book highlights the current technologies being applied in education and research. It also describes how the new technologies and their various application in radio, television, communications, computers, Internet, intranet and multimedia are being rapidly adopted t facilitate learning in a better way . The book will be useful for the students of education, educational administrators and library and information professionals.
1. Introduction
2. IT in India
3. Educational Technology
4. The Broadcast Media
5. Communication Technology
6. Distance Learning
7. Learning Technology
8. Internet as a Reference Tool
9. Intranet for Rural India
10. Multimedia in Education
Bibliography
Index
Dr. Amjad Ali (Ph. D. in Library and Information Science) started his service carer from Doordarshan (India Television) in 1982. A year later, he joined the prestigious Mass Communication Research Centre at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as Librarian ( in charge of the Library Resource and Documentation Unit). He was also engaged as Academic Counselor with IGNOU. In 1993, he joined Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh as Deputy Librarian where he still continues. In the meanwhile, he has been on a foreign assignment as Information Specialist with King abdulaziz City for science and Technology, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was also selected as Librarian (on panel ) for the Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi. Presently, he is a Council Member of the India Library Association. Dr. Amjad Ali has published 20 books and a number of research papers. He is a recognized Guide for M. Phil and Ph. D. in Library and Information Science. The other books authored by him and brought out by the Leading publishers of the countryu include:
1. Encyclopedic Dictionary of Library and Information Science (3vols.)
2. Information Technology and Libraries (Library and Paperback editions)
3. Reference Service and the Digital Sources of Information (Library and Paperbackeditions)
4. Learning in the Information Age
5. Infomedia in Higher Education
6. Oriental libraries of India and their Collections
7. Glossary of Library and Information Science (2vols)
8. Oriental Manuscripts Worldwide
9. Digital Libraries in the Making
10. Encyclopedia of Information Technology (2vols).
11. Digital Libraries in Higher Education
12. Working with the News Media
13. Libraries and librarians of the World
14. Builders of the Global Village
