The document discusses various modern technologies that can be used as tools for distance education teachers. It describes technologies like computers, videos/CDs, podcasting, video conferencing, blogs and more. It explains how each tool can be beneficial for teaching students from a distance by enhancing lessons, allowing access to recorded materials, and promoting communication and collaboration between teachers and remote students. The goal is to integrate new technologies into teaching to improve learning outcomes through more engaging and flexible educational experiences.

1. MODERN TECHNOLOGY - A TOOL IN
THE HANDS OF DISTANCE TEACHER

2. • Everyday man is using technology in various
aspects for all his works. It is technology that
is evolving every second somewhere in the
world. People have to update themselves for
surviving in this hi-tech world.

3. • Today technology is widely used in
educational sectors. It can be used as a
supplementary tool for enhancing teaching
methods in a classroom.
• As the conventional chalk and talk method
seems to be monotonous and boring to the
students, therefore teachers bang upon the
latest technologies for keeping the pupils
awake in their classes.

5. • A distance education teacher needs to be
capable of interacting with these techniques.
• The effect of technology has become huge in
teaching and learning in addition to the
instructor's role.
• In other words, the role of the instructor
together with the technology can lead to
advanced learning results.

6. • Learning and developing confidence with the
new technologies, thinking about how to
integrate them into the teaching is to be the goal
of every teacher.
• Every lesson developed should be an
experimental one and project-based in order to
address the interests and needs of the students.
• As an experimental class it calls for unusual
flexibility, independence, dedication, and
creativity.

7. • It is true that one of the ultimate goals of
techno based teaching is to promote students’
motivation and learning interest, which can be
a practical way to get them involved in the
learning process.
• Context creation should be based on the
openness and accessibility of the teaching
materials and information available on the
internet.

8. • During the process of optimizing the techno
based teaching, students should not be too
dependent on their counselors, but will be
motivated and guided to communicate with
each other online.

9. • The term Modern Technology includes
communication techniques for teaching in
which the personal computer plays a central
role.

10. Technologies
• There other technological tools that can be
utilized in distant learning programmes beside
computers. Each technological tool has its
specific benefits and application.
• technologies that enable students in
understanding and grasping their contents are

11. Computers
• the use of the computer as a tool in learning is
much more motivating for the student than the
process of traditional classroom set up.
• The learner can highlight a specific part of the
written text through underlining, bolding,
italicizing, or changing the font size and color of
the text with the aid of these programs.
• Computers can also be used to correct answers
for the learners, and to simulate tests in an easy
to understand manner.

12. Video Tapes/ CD ROM:
• they are still be utilized in certain cases and
are attached with some lessons. Compact
discs (CDs) can be used to store large amounts
of information digitally, all the articles
published in one newspaper for one whole
year can be stored on a single CD.

13. • Lectures, assignments and examinations can be
saved on these audio CDs for later use by the
distance student.
• A method of capturing learning content on tape
or as a digital file for viewing on-demand can be
used as the sole means of content or as part of a
blended approach.
• Often used to capture a real time event and is an
effective distribution medium that supports high-
resolution images and video.

14. Pod casting/broadcasting
• Podcasting allows students to use their tech-
based entertainment systems for educational
purposes.
• Podcasts enables students and teachers to share
information with anyone at any time.
• A student can download the podcast of recorded
lesson and is able to access the missed
counseling sessions.
• They could also access lectures of experts which
may not otherwise be available because of
geographical distance and other reasons.

15. • Listening to educational programs
broadcasted on TV and radio is another
technical way for developing the
understanding ability.
• Podcasting is a relatively a new addition to the
educator’s technology.

16. Video Conferencing
• Video conferencing systems are often used for
distance learning, linking distant teachers and
learners for instruction delivery.
• Some of the ways the technology is used for
achieving this goal, bringing benefits to
teachers, administrators and students, include
the following:

17. • Students can take classes offered online.
• Learning institutions can offer classes during off-hours
and to students who cannot attend traditional classes.
• Teachers can team-teach with remote teachers, sharing
subject matter expertise or a unique approach to a
topic.
• “Master teachers” in particular subjects can be made
available to a larger audience of students of wider
geographic reaches. Students can meet with tutors for
enrichment, remediation, or a helpful bit of personal
attention.

18. • Students can communicate first-hand with
experts in many fields to enhance
understanding of a subject they are studying.
This real-world contact can heighten interest,
improving motivation and retention.
• Teachers and students can collaborate and
exchange information with others in areas
such as peer counseling, bilingualism, and
student government.

19. • Students can communicate with video pen pals to
experience diverse cultures and ways of life, both
economic and ethnic.
• Online contests, discussions among students– debates,
spelling bees, or research conferences – can take place
via two-way video.
• Video conferencing can facilitate distributed
cooperative learning, where groups at distant sites
take on a learning task and teach remote peers.
•The most notable point in video conferencing is that the
students can post questions immediately and get their
answers at once.

20. Video Library
• Video Libraries are most essential in our fast and
modernized world.
• This is helpful for the students to those who miss
some interesting session.
• In this process the teaching of the faculty will be
recorded and made available to the students. The
students can view the tapes in their leisure hours.
• The advantage in this method is that students
can replay it when there is a necessity.

21. Quicktionary
• a simple dictionary that is the size of a large
pen can offer assistance to students reading
documents or newspapers. I
• t is a pen-like device, which allows the reader
(visually impaired) to easily scan the word and
get its definition and translation on its own
LCD screen.

22. • Technology such as Sound-Editor enable
learners to adjust the speech rate of listening
materials to assist their comprehension, and
present spectrum of speech waves and visual
depictions of mouth and tongue movement to
ease the learning and refine pronunciation.

23. Quick Link Pen
• Quick Link-Pen can be used to scan over text
like a highlighter and it will store up to 1,000
pages of text which it can read aloud or
upload it to a computer, Smart Phone.
• It allows reading the notes on the bright LCD
screen, or hearing them read through a built-
in speaker.

24. • One can even plug the included headphones into
its audio jack for private listening.
• A dictionary is installed inside this clever device,
one can easily get a definition of an unfamiliar
word from within the scanned notes.

25. • Quick Link Pen allows learners to copy and
store printed text, Internet links. It helps to
transfer the data to computers and enables
the reader to get the meaning of the word
from a built in dictionary. Accessing this type
of machine seems to be a more convenient
method for the distance learners.

26. The Web
• Computer-learning networks have the potential to
empower students in well-designed learning
environments. This mode of learning reinforces the
students' skills in problem solving.
• It can support synchronous oral interaction between
the instructor and remote students at multiple
locations as well as supporting a Multi-User Virtual
Environment (MUVE) or webinars.
• Web enables synchronous audio or Web conferencing,
text chat, audio, video, document and application
sharing, whiteboards, presentations, etc.

27. Use of Internet Voice Chatting
• Chatting is the process of voice
communication between the speaker and the
listener through the internet. This process
may be very beneficial to the learner if the
expert speaker is on the other side.

28. Use of Internet Text-Chatting
• Text chatting is another important technical
method for developing writing ability. It
provides an on-line and quick tool for writing
and expressing thoughts, transferring ideas,
and responding instantaneously with the
other side writer.

29. Use of Electronic Dictionaries
• Another modern way for improving the
vocabulary of the learner focuses on the
utilization of electronic dictionaries designed
specifically for English language learners.
• These dictionaries have several built-in
functions and tools that are not provided in
book dictionaries.

30. Electronic dictionaries are also easy to use and
represent quick tools for vocabulary acquisition.

31. Writing E-mails
• Students can be made to use E-mails to learn
how to respond to the incoming messages using
some formal statements and meaningful
language.
• They can communicate with their students via a
two-way audio and text chat or by means of an
online whiteboard to share text or documents.
• They can conduct one-to-one live sessions.
• The online environment grants the tutors more
flexibility to employ various teaching styles.

32. Educational Satellites
• In the college we can create Educational
Satellite lab, whereby satellite programs of
educational value like UGC’s country wide
classrooms, Anna University programmes and
other worldwide programmes are recorded
and students are given access to the recording
either through big screen or small monitor.

33. • It allows for the live traditional classroom to
be transmitted to a remote site while
synchronous oral interactivity is supported by
audio teleconferencing or student response
systems integrating audio and keypad
technology (data interaction).

34. • A virtual classroom is a medium for delivering
live quasi-classroom sessions that can be
accessed by tutors and students at their
convenience
• Tutors, virtual classes display a fine array of
online teaching management tools, and tutors
can fix a session online via a calendar at their
convenience.

35. Blogging
• A blog (short for weblog) is a frequently
updated website that often resembles an
online journal.
• It's so easy to create and update a blog –
• it requires only basic access to the Internet,
and a minimum of technical know-how.
• Blogging guides students to online resources
appropriate for their level.

36. • It increases the sense of community among
the students and encourages shy students to
participate.
• It stimulates out-of-class discussion.
• Nowadays, blogs can also display photos and
some people are using them with audio and
even video.

37. The Tutor Blog
• is run by the teacher of a class. The content of
this type of blog can be limited to syllabus,
course information, homework, assignments,
etc. In this type of blog, students are normally
restricted to being able to write comments to
the teacher's posts.

38. The Class Blog
• is a shared space, with teacher and students
being able to write to the main area. It is best
used as a collaborative discussion space, an
extra-curricular extension of the classroom.
Students can be encouraged to reflect in more
depth, in writing, on themes touched upon in
class. Students are given a greater sense of
freedom and involvement than with the tutor
blog.

39. The Learner Blog
• is the third type of blog and it requires more time
and effort from the teacher to both set up and
moderate, but is probably the most rewarding.
• It involves giving each student an individual blog.
• The benefit of this is that this becomes the
student's own personal online space.
• Students can be encouraged to write frequently
about what interests them, and can post
comments on other students' blogs.

40. The Ipod
• is designed perfectly to read and listen at the
same time. It’s like having amazing teachers in
your pocket everywhere you go. If you can get in
the habit of listening for 30 minutes per day,
even if that means 3 separate 10 minute study
sessions, you will improve very quickly with this
application. You will find so much more study
time without disrupting your day.

41. Conclusion
• This paper has reviewed briefly how the
technology can be utilized in developing the
skill of self learning among the learner we
believe that it can fully improve students’
practical skills, which is helpful and useful to
ensure and fulfill an effective result of
teaching and learning in distance education.