Edusat and its function

1. presented
by
Rejitha.u
Social science
Christ Nagar College Of Education
Thiruvallam

2. EDUSAT
 EDUSAT was India’s first full fledged educational
satellite.
 It’s first operational flight took place on 20th september 2004 from the
Satish Dhawan Space center Sriharikottah.
 The projected life of the EDUSAT is 7 to 10 years.
 It can cover whole geographical india .
 EDUSAT is specially configured for an audio visual medium employing
a digital interactive classroom & multimedia multi-centric system.
 It is primarily meet for providing connectivity to the school college, &
higher levels of education & also support non formal education
,including developmental communication.

3. FUNCTIONS
 It covers all geographical area inside the country.
 It can provide interactive & cost effective education.
 It can provide consistency to information.
 It is a satellite fully dedicated to the cause of education
 It is useful to implement virtual classroom in remote &
rural school.
 It can provide audio visual medium & interactive,
multimedia facility.
 It can open up many possibilities like online teaching,
video conferencing etc.

4. It can be used at all levels of education, form primary
schools to professional courses.
It can provide live lecture session from the best and
experts.
It can facilitate provision of equality in educational
opertunity .
EDUSAT has enhanced distance education in the
country especially in medical technical & higher
education streams.
Students will get the facility to see what they read in
there text books & to do experiments with the help of
multimedia technologies.

5. CONCLUSION
The launch of EDUSAT has helped in providing quality
instruction through video programmes to students
studying in the interior villages. The student have
benefited from the video programes delivered through
the satellite . The benefites gainned is in terms of gain
in knowledge & understanding of the content ,
lmprovement in attendence & holding attention &
interest in viewing programes.