Television plays important role educating masses all over the world.

1. Role of Television
in Education

2. Introduction
• Important medium of
disseminating information to its
viewers.
• A combination of audio and
visual technology, and
considered to be more effective
than audio media like radio.

3. • Entertainment,
information and
education
(programmes)
• It provides
unique
opportunity to
learners to
learn as per
their
convenience

4. Educational Television
(ETV)
• Educational Television (ETV) is
a system that presents learning
content in various subjects
produced by an agency.
• It is a means of providing direct
instruction (formal) as well as
continuing education (non-
formal).
• It has the capacity to bring the
world into a class room and a
class room into a home.
•

5. Educational Television
(ETV)
• India is a large country with varied
climatic conditions, large and
ever growing population and vast
tracts of inaccessible remote
locations.
• TV as a mass medium has the
potential to play a major role in
the educational setup of our
country.

6. History
• On March 25,
1925 Scottish
inventor, John
Logie Baird
gave his first
demonstration
of Tele Vision
at Selfridge’s
Department
Store in
London.

7. History
• Use of
Television as an
instructional
medium was
first reported in
1932 by the
State University
of IOWA in USA

8. TV in India
• Television first came to
India (named as
Doordarshan – ‘DD’) on
September 15, 1959 in
New Delhi as the National
Television Network of
India in order to support
the noble cause of social
and educational
development of the
people.

9. Educational television initiatives in
India
–Secondary School Television Project
(1961)
–Delhi Agriculture Television (DATV)
Project/ (Krishi Darshan) (1966)
–Satellite Instructional Television
Experiment (SITE) (1975)

10. – Post-SITE Project (1977)
– Indian National Satellite Project (INSAT) (1982)
– IGNOU-Doordarshan Telecast (1991)
– Gyan-Darshan (GD) Educational Channel (2000)
– GD 1 – Educational and developmental needs of
the learner
– GD 2 – Tele conferencing
– GD 3 – 2003 known as Ekalavya
– GD 4 – Vayas – Higher education sector
– GD 5 – science and technology

11. Types of educational
television programme
• Monologue: A narrator
narrates the aspects,
interlacing it with visuals the
illustrations.
• Dialogue: Conversation
between people.
• Interviews
• Panel Discussion
• Phone-in programmes
• Quiz
• Dramas
• Simulated Classrooms
• Virtual Classrooms

12. ETV: MULTI-
DIMENSIONAL
ROLE
Improvement of Quality
Television as a catalyst
Television as a means of
extending children’s experience
TV as a means of introducing
affective education

13. ETV: MULTI-
DIMENSIONAL
ROLE
TV based instructional
systems
TV as a means of
improving efficiency
and productivity
Television as a means of
equalizing educational
opportunity

14. Using
television
in
classroom
Preparation for
telecast
During the
Telecast
Follow-up

15. Potentials
and
Limitations
of Television

16. Potential of
ETV
• face-to-face classroom
and distance learning
environments
• Can facilitate
synchronous and
asynchronous
interaction between
the teacher and
learner when used in
teleconference
situation.

17. Potential of
ETV
• Provides high quality
education to all the learners
irrespective of their
location, caste and creed.
• The educational television
broadcast help overcome
problem of inequality and
imbalance among regions
by providing equal
opportunities.

18. Potential of
ETV
• Provides high quality
education to all the learners
irrespective of their
location, caste and creed.
• The educational television
broadcast help overcome
problem of inequality and
imbalance among regions
by providing equal
opportunities.

19. Potential of
ETV
• Provides more cost effective
education when it is used on
a large scale and repeated
over a period of time.
• Television demonstrates
experiments, experimental
situations or principles
involving dynamic change
or movement.

20. Potential of
ETV
• It demonstrates abstract
concepts through the use of
especially constructed
physical models.
• It can facilitate animated,
slow motion or speed-up
video tapes/ videodisc.

21. Potential of
ETV
• It illustrates principles involving
two, three or multidimensional
aspects of a learning
object/concept.
• Telecast is a time saving means
of content dissemination
• Teachers can use television as a
medium in their classroom
teaching, which helps them in
reducing their load.

22. Potential of
ETV
• Television helps teacher to
learn new teaching
strategies, methods and
activities, which they can use
in their classroom teaching.
• Students feel more motivated
towards television
programmes than classroom
teaching.

23. Potential of
ETV
• Students from remote and rural areas,
underprivileged and handicapped can
access valuable information. So
knowledge gap is reduced.
• Displays events and places that are not
readily accessible to the normal
people. E.g.: Discovery channel,
National Geographic channel, etc.
• Up to day information on regional,
national and international topics.

24. Potential of
ETV
• During
Pandemic
???

25. Limitations of
ETV
– It cannot provide instant
feedback. It is difficult to
capture the learners’ reactions /
views about the programmes.
– Video production is a costly
and time consuming affair. It
requires Television and Video
sophisticated production
facilities and equipments.

26. Limitations of
ETV
– Television programmes are
aimed at the average learner.
Hence they may not be very
effective for learners with
special needs, below and above
average learners. Such
programmes may not pose any
challenge to brilliant learners.
– Television broadcast is a passive
technology; hence its
pedagogical effectiveness can be
limited. To make it interactive
we need sophisticated
technology at both the teaching
and learning ends.

27. Limitations of
ETV
– Unless produced professionally
based on an effective
instructional design and by a
team of experts, the television
programmes cannot be effective
in facilitating learning. As a
result, educational programmes
produced by various institutions
are not pedagogically sound /
effective.

28. Limitations of
ETV
–Once produced, it is difficult
to revise and update the
educational television
programmes.
–Television programmes
restrict the learners to view
the visuals shown by the
producers. Hence the
learners get limited
perspective of the
concept(s) being taught /
learnt.

29. Utilization
of
Educational
Television
• Accessibility and
availability
• Attitude of teachers and
learners
• Support of administrators
• Viewing facilities
• Maintenance
• Poor integration with
main learning materials
• Training of teachers and
producers

30. Conclusion
• Educational Television plays an important
role in teaching learning process in recent
years.
• It is expected to be put to use to enhance
the communication and presentation skills
of the teachers, to motivate them through
dissemination of Best Practices in the field,
make available research material online and
finally create an IT culture across the nation
by introducing and developing IT.