Recent Trends in Communication Technology for Distance Education
1. Recent Trends in Communication
Technology for Distance Education
Sanjaya Mishra
2. Objectives
• Describe the developments of
communication technologies for
distance education
• Critically examine the implications of the
developments for teaching and learning
at a distance
3. Satellite TV/ DTH
• Increased reach to
remote areas
• IGNOU’s GD1 is
available on DTH
(Ku-band)
8. Semantic Web
• Web 1.0 : Simple HTML
pages, text, graphics,
multimedia
• Web 2.0 : User Interaction,
user creation, read-write
web
• Web 3.0 : Search,
precision, relevance,
artificial intelligence,
natural language
processing; Resource
Description Framework
16. Conclusions
• User empowerment through control of
learning (use of social media)
• User generated content; constructivist
approach
• Connectivism; just-in-time knowledge
resources
• Teacher empowerment; free software
movement
• Open Educational Resources; knowledge
banks