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ESP: Impact of Technology in the Teaching-Learning Process
1. ESP: Impact of Technology in the
Teaching-Learning Process
S. Senthil Kumar
Amrita University
Coimbatore
senthil.elt@gmail.com
Mobile: 9894028783
2. SHIFT
Industrial Age Knowledge Age
LEARNERS – New Millennium Technocrats
TEACHERS – 21st Century Knowledge Workers
3. Bill Gates: Online Learning
Optimization of the best resources available in
the Internet.
“We should focus on having at least one great
course online for each subject rather than lots of
mediocre courses.”
4. Pioneers in sharing intellectual and professional
resources to the world:
Open Course Ware (OCW) – MIT
Open Learning Initiative (OLI) – Carnegie Mellon
University
6. In the same lines of Open Course Ware (OCW)
resources of MIT, In India, National Programme
on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL).
http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/
611 institutions using NPTEL
courses as of July 23, 2012.
7. A-VIEW (Amrita Virtual Interactive
e-Learning World)
•multimodal, multimedia e-learning platform
•any institution of higher education can use A-
VIEW free of charge
www.aview.in
8. A-VIEW on Aakash
The Aakash tablet was developed
as part of the country's aim to link
25,000 colleges and 400 universities
in an e-learning platform.
9. Questionnaire Survey
through
Survey Monkey
Respondents were all B.Tech. pre-final
year students of Amrita School of
Engineering.
10. Survey – Three Parts
Respondents’ Attitude towards Technology
Technology Preferred in ESP by the learners
Effect of Technology on Learners and their
Learning Style
11. Analysis of the findings - the new millennium
learners are strongly inclined towards blending
technology into the ESP teaching learning
process
Inference - Teachers of ESP in engineering
colleges have to be aware of the emerging
trends in the fields of learning theory, teaching
methodology, and educational technology
12. Appropriate Pedagogy
LEARNER-AUTONOMY-BASED CONSTRUCTIVIST PEDAGOGY
In short, what is needed is a pedagogy
that supports interaction, reflection,
experimentation, & active participation
using technology that is available and
affordable.
