Education Technology BEd Resources centers in Edu Technology 2019

1. Suresh babu G
Lecturer in General Education
MGUCTE Nedumkandam

2. Central Institute Of Educational
Technology (CIET)
 a consitituent unit of NCERT
 came into existence in the year 1984 with the merger of
Center for Educational Technology and Department of
Teaching Aids
 Its major aim is to promote utilization of educational
technologies viz. radio,TV, films, Satellite
communications and cyber media either separately or
in combinations

3.  The institute undertakes activities to widen
educational opportunities, promote equity and
improve quality of educational processes at school
level.

4. Functions
 To design and produce media software materials
viz. television and radio (for both broadcast as well as
non-broadcast use) film, graphics and other programs
for strengthening the transaction of curricular and co-
curricular activities at the school level.
 To create competencies in development and use
of educational software materials mentioned above
through training in areas such as script development,
media production, media communication, media
research, technical operations, setting up studios and
repair and maintenance of equipment.

5.  To develop plans for the use of Information and
Communication Technologies in education.
 To train the faculty of Institutes of Advanced Study
in Education/Colleges of Teacher Education and
District Institutes of Education and Training in the use
of Educational Technology in their teacher education
programs.
 To undertake research, evaluation and
monitoring of the systems, programs and
materials with a view to improving the materials and
increasing their effectiveness.

6.  To document and disseminate information,
materials and media programs for better utilization
and to function as a clearing house / agency in the
field of Educational Technology.
 To advise and coordinate the academic and
technical programs and activities of the State
Institutes of Educational Technology (SIETs) set
up by the MHRD in six states of India.

7. University Grants
Commission (UGC)
 The University Grants Commission (UGC)
of India is a statutory body set up by the
Indian Union government in 1956, and is
charged with coordination, determination
and maintenance of standards of higher
education.

8. Functions
 Allocates grants to the universities and
colleges out of its own funds for their
development of educational technology or
other general purpose.
 Advises the central and state government on
disbursing grants to the universities out of
the Consolidated Fund of India.

9.  Imparts education to the students in various
streams through its Country wide classroom
teachings and a four-year old 24 hours
educational channel 'Vyas'.
 The University Grants Commission has
recently launched an 'e-scripting' course in
television for all those students who want to
make a career in broadcast media. The course
is being run by its Consortium of Educational
Communication, an Inter University Centre of
the UGC on electronic media.

10. INDIRA GANDHI NATIONAL OPEN UNIVERSITY
( IGNOU)
 The Indira Gandhi National Open University
(IGNOU) was established by an Act of
Parliament in September, 1985, with a dual
purpose - as a National Open University and
as an apex body for the introduction and
promotion of the open university and distance
education systems in the educational pattern
of the country and for the coordination and
determination of standards in such systems.
The latter function is similar to the statutory
responsibility assigned to the University
Grants Commission (UGC) in respect of the
entire system of higher education.

11. FUNCTIONS
1. Promotion of the open university and
distance education systems
2. Coordination and determination of standards
of teaching, evaluation and research in such
systems
3. Allocation and disbursal of grants to various
distance education institutions in the country
for the purpose of performing the above
functions.

12. PROMOTION OF EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY
 production of audio/video programmes.
 translation of materials into regional
languages.
 joint development of courses;
 promotion of studies and research in
distance education technology

13. NATIONAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARDS (NOC)
 The national occupational standards for supporting
teaching and learning (NOS for STL) describe what
support staff need to do, know and understand in
their roles.
 They support the day-to-day activities of school
leaders and support staff, and are aligned with
national expectations and qualifications. Information
on how the NOS for STL units link with the
Qualifications and Credit Framework (QCF) units is
available in the introduction download for ‘Support
staff essential training materials’.

14.  Although the NOS for STL apply across the UK, guidance
in these documents only applies to England.
 The NOS booklet provides further information on how
the NOS were developed and how they can be used. The
full suite of units can be downloaded from this page and
are split into units according to the corresponding
National Vocational Qualification (NVQ) level.

15. State Institute of Educational Technology
(SIET) in India
• State Institute of Education Technology, Patna
was established on 10.9.1985 to promote quality
in primary education through INSAT-1B.
• State Institute of educational technology has
been set up in six states such as Andhra Pradesh,
Bihar, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Orissa and Uttar
Pradesh in order to implement the INSAT for
education project effectively. These institutes are
functioning under the administrative control of
the SCERT in some states and in the Directorate
of Education in other states.

16. Functions
• mainly expected to implement the educational
technology projects utilizing all kinds of modem
media, methods and materials.
• Now-a-days, more emphasis is given to the
production of ETV programmes for the children
in the age group 5-8 and 9-11 years and teachers
of primary schools.

17. • it has taken up specific programmes for
providing audio and video materials for
supporting educational movements of Total
Literacy Campaigns (TLC) and Universalization
of Primary Education.

18.  Audio Visual Research Centre provides
valuable resource material for higher
education and mass communication. The
programmes produced at the centre are
televised under UGC/CEC countrywide
classroom programme. During 1996-97, the
centre produced 16 educational programmes
covering various subjects

19.  Production of educational programmes
covering various subjects
 research in all aspects of educational
technology in relation to learning for both
urban and rural collage going students in
various disciplines.

20. EDUCATIONAL MULTIMEDIA
RESEARCH CENTRE (EMMRC)
 The Educational Multimedia Research
Centre (EMMRC) was established as Audio
Visual Research Centre (AVRC) in 1989 by
the UGC-CEC at Punjabi University, Patiala
under the Country-Wide Classroom (CWC)
Project, with the following objectives for the
pan-Indian and global audience.

21. FUNCTIONS
 Production of educational programmes
(especially video and audio) and related
support material and setting up of appropriate
facilities for this.
 Research related to optimizing the
effectiveness of the programmes.
 Providing a forum for the active involvement
of academic and other scholars in the
creation of appropriate educational
programme.
 Studying, promoting and experimenting with
new techniques/technology that will increase
the reach and/or effectiveness of educational
communication.

22. National Institute of Standards and
Technology (NIST)
 The federal government’s first physical science
research laboratory was chartered by Congress on
March 3, 1901, as the National Bureau of Standards,
which became the National Institute of Standards and
Technology in 1988.

23. Functions
 Recognizing the critical importance of chemical
measures and standards
 NIST established the Chemistry Division as one of its
first programs
 Today, the Chemical Science and Technology
Laboratory, one of the Institute’s seven measurement
and standards laboratories, offers the most
comprehensive range of chemical, physical, and
engineering measurement capabilities in its field.

24. SOCIETY FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND
TEACHER EDUCATION (SITE)
 This society represents individual teacher educators and
affiliated organizations of teacher educators in all
disciplines, who are interested in the creation and
dissemination of knowledge about the use of information
technology in teacher education and faculty/staff
development.

25. ROLE IN EDUCATION
 the use of information technology in teacher
education, and
 instruction about information technology in
 Preservice
 Inservice
 Graduate Teacher Education
 Faculty & Staff Development

26. UGC-CEC
• The Consortium for Educational
Communication popularly known as CEC is one
of the Inter University Centres set up by the
University Grants Commission. It has been
established with the goal of addressing the needs
of Higher Education through the use of powerful
medium of Television along with the appropriate
use of emerging Information Communication
Technology (ICT).

27. • Realizing the potential and power of television to
act as means of Educational Knowledge
dissemination, UGC started the Countrywide
Classroom Programmes in the year 1984. For
production of educational programmes, initially
Media Centres were set up at 6 Universities.
Subsequently CEC was setup in 1993 as a nodal
agency to coordinate, guide & facilitate such
educational programme production through its
Media Centres. Today 22 Media Centres now
known as Educational Multimedia Research
Centres (EMRCs) are working towards achieving
this goal under the umbrella of CEC

28. Centre for Development of Imaging
Technology (C-DIT)
 Established in 1988
 Is a organization for advancement of research
, development of training in imaging
technology
 Is unique as it is a combination of human
resources , talented and creative people co-
existing with technology work force

29. Functions
 Software development for educational
purposes
 Undertakes various projects like e-
governance, imaging technology etc
 Develops educational related materials like
study materials , teaching aids etc

30. EDUSAT
 GSAT-3, known as EDUSAT is meant for distant class
room education from school level to higher education.
This is the first dedicated "Educational Satellite" that
provide the country with satellite based two way
communication to class room for delivering
educational materials.
 It was on sep 20 ,2004

31. Applications of EDUSAT
 New concept of education - with no classrooms , no
teachers and no books would became reality
 Development of virtual classrooms
 A single lecturer can reach 10000 or more students at
the same time
 Lecturing can be stored
 Development of on-line education
 Development of interactive class.

32. IT@SCHOOL
 IT@SCHOOL Project comes under the Directorate
of Public Instruction (DPI) of the Kerala
Government
 It is responsible for providing Information
Communication Technology (ICT) enabled
education to about 1.6 million students per year in
Kerala

33. ROLE
 It had changed the traditional way of teaching to the
use of information technology for studies there by
improving the quality of learning system
 It help to increase the intellectual productivity of
teachers as well as the curricular comprehension
 IT@SCHOOL is the main agency for implementing
EDUSAT network and runs a special platform for
education called VICTERS

34. Virtual Classroom Technology on
Edusat for Rural Schools
(VICTERS)channel
• 12 hour educational channel for school
education was officially inaugurated by Hon.
Chief Minister of Kerala Shri. V. S.
Achuthananthan on 3rd August 2006. The
channel is unique in the sense that it caters to
students & teachers on a need based manner.
The programmes are aired on demand, sensitive
to school curriculum and even time-table.

35. Functions
• direct-to home (DTH) technology used to give
education through TV
• Education videos, as per the Kerala syllabus and
curriculum, are primarily aired during school
timings
• The programs are developed with the objective
of not replacing the existing teachers of our
schools but to strengthen their hands

36. • The project envisions a tri-partite intervention
with teachers, students and ViCTERS inside the
classroom
• The ViCTERS is designed to provide an excellent
alternate source of information for poor students
• The educational content provided mainly by
SIET, Other agencies like PRD, Doordarshan,
Directorate of Health Service and different
agencies, are child friendly and gives a wealth of
information to the student community

37.  GyanDarshan-I is a satellite based TV channel
devoted to educational and developmental
needs of the society. Then there is
GyanDarshan-II / Edusat, which is an
exclusive educational satellite to provide
interactive education using DVB-RCS
technology. It offers distance education
through Virtual Class Room mode and
provides access to digital repository of
educational content hosted at IGNOU.

38.  The GyanVani educational FM Radio network
provides programmes covering different
aspects and levels of education including
Primary and Secondary Education, Adult
Education, Technical and vocational Education,
Higher Education and Extension Education.
 Indian DD Gyandarshan is an educational
television channel that relays programmes
from various Doordarshan Kendras in different
Languages

39.  The Educational television channel is
organized and administered by NCERT,
IGNOU and the National Institute of Open
Schools
 After the success of the Gyandarshan
programme on Doordarshan, the Indira
Gandhi National Open University was
planning to introduce independent FM bands
in 40 stations under the programme named
Gyanvani.

40.  Information and Library Network (INFLIBNET)
Centre is an autonomous Inter-University
Centre of the University Grants Commission
(UGC) of India. It is a major National
Programme initiated by the UGC in March
1991 with its Head Quarters at Gujarat
University Campus, Ahmedabad

41.  To promote and establish communication
facilities to improve capability in information
transfer and access
 To establish INFLIBNET: Information and
Library Network a computer communication
network for linking libraries and information
centres in universities, deemed to be
universities, colleges etc

42.  To facilitate academic communication
amongst scientist, engineers, social
scientists, academics, faculties, researchers
and students through electronic mail, file
transfer, computer/audio/video conferencing,
etc
 To undertake system design and studies in
the field of communications, computer
networking, information handling and data
management;
 To establish appropriate control and
monitoring system for the communication
network and organize maintenance

43.  To collaborate with institutions, libraries,
information centres and other organizations
in India and abroad in the field relevant to the
objectives of the Centre;
 To promote R&D and develop necessary
facilities and create technical positions for
realizing the objectives of the Centre;
 To generate revenue by providing
consultancies and information services; and
 To do all other such things as may be
necessary, incidental or conducive to the
attainment of all or any of the above
objectives

44. THANKS