Role Of Media And
Technology In Distance
Education
Media
Media may refer to communications.
Communication tools may used to store and deliver information or data
Type of media
Print Media
Newspapers,Magazines,Books and other printed materials
Electronic Media
Radio,Television,Internet etc
Introduction
Media is every where, it has become a part of our daily life. The
media play a dominant role in the learning process. Media has
potential to shape personalities, change the way we perceive and
understand the world and our immediate reality.
Role of print media in distance education
The role of print media in the process of distance education is of special
importance. Print media like newspapers journals and magazines are the basic
oldest channels of communication between one source to another. Print media are
being printed in every regional language to facilitates the readers to get
information and knowledge in ones own mother tongue.
Newspapers
Through newspapers we can get news information and we can learn
our National language and English newspapers are very helpful to
learn the English language.
Journals
Journals are magazine which publish on daily bases. The Journals of
education changes in an international, professionally referred, state
of the art-scholarly journals, reflecting the most important ideas and
evidence of educational change.
Magazines
Through magazine we can learn by articles, features, interview, short
stories and we can get very nice literature by magazine. Different
types of magazine having different and versatile knowledge of over
all the world.
Books
Books is the best source of education. A lot of materials of formal
and informal education is available in the books.
Role of Electronic Media in Distance
Education
First of all, Role of media radio in distance education process. Radio is
also playing important role in D.E. Talk shows about politics, finance
and other programmed are the source of informal education. Many
personalities, scholars, professionalists come in radio as a chief guest,
by live calls we take a lot of information and learned by this way.
Internet
Internet is a medium, which made the world a Global village, Around the
world students are being globally connected with one another's via internet.
We seen that large number of people depend on the internet to collect
information, read news, play games and also for searching process and
business work.
Online learning
Online learning has assumed the role of an important media r for imparting
distance education.
The most important advantage of online distance education is to earn a
degree from one’s home or work place.
Television
Television is the powerful media that will reach all sorts of people.it
is a source of informal education. Tv does play an important role in
shaping a person’s life both professionally and personally.
Politics,business,finance different language learn through drams and
movies.
Challenges faced by students
Generally distance learners have insecurities about learning due to reasons
like disruption of family life, perceived irrelevance of their studies and lack
of support from employers.
There is no face to face contact with teachers and students have trouble in
self-evaluation.
Isolated feeling reported by distance students. They miss the collaboration of
larger school community, and an important part of their social lives.
Lack of support and services such as reach to tutors, academic planners and
schedulers. This added to the isolation in the distance learning process
complicate things.
Challenges faced by teacher
Faculty might perceive distance learning as threat to service tenure
and human resource staffing.
A lot of upfront effort is needed to design distance learning material.
This increases the workload on teachers who already have material for
traditional classrooms.
Faculty must meet the needs of distance students without face-to-face
contact. Teachers primarily teach 18 to 22-year-olds students. When
majority of distance learners are adults, teachers may need to change
their teaching style and is not easy task.
Challenges faced by teacher
Teachers have less respect for the academics of distance courses. This can be
enhanced by making distance programs have similar admission process as on-
campus courses.
Some teachers might not like the idea of distance learning, nor want to
participate. interest and motivation are not success factors reserved only for the
student, even the teachers need the same.
Challenges faced by university/institution
Through universities understand some of the challenges faced by students, they have
challenges of themselves which hinder them from solving the problems of
students and teachers.
Technology needs investment and funds to setup toll-free lines and computers and
pay ongoing costs of telecom and internet connectivity costs. In addition,the student
also incur ongoing technology costs and possibly capital costs to purchase PC.
Students might decide not to join the course and the problem continues.
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Challenges faced by
university/institution
There is reliable internet connectivity/network to carry large
amount of learning content. This would make browser based
education delivery little tricky. In addition, the perceived anonymity
of the Internet can give raise to abusive behavior and this is a new
challenge that needs proper care and regulation.
Challenges faced by
university/institution
People believe distance courses are inferior to traditional
courses and this reduces the motivation of teachers and
students. To prove the belief wrong, universities need to
ensure the quality in content and delivery of distance
learning courses, matches with the regular campus
classroom learning.
