Education in Cybernetic Age

Contents: Foreword. 1. Intervention of information technology for universialization of elementary education/B.C. Mahapatra. 2. Taming the information and communication technology for teacher education/Sneha M. Joshi and Ashutosh Biswal. 3. Commencing computerized education/B.C. Mahapatra and Dinesh Varshney. 4. Computer as answering objections/B.C. Mahapatra and N.S. Ojha. 5. Intellectual poverty to intellectual expertise through Infotech reality: some reflections on technotronoic education in Indian schools/Mukesh Chandrakar and Ashutosh Biswal. 6. Effective communication and media support to literacy, post-literacy and continuing education/Hemant Khandai. 7. Information communication technology in India: a challenge/S.L. Mahajan. 8. Present status and new directions of management of educational curriculum/B.C. Mahapatra. 9. Learning chemistry through computer/B.C. Mahapatra. 10. Information technology and teaching learning process/B.C. Mahapatra and Dinesh Nagar. 11. Assisting persons with disability in the age of cybernetics and technology/Kaushal Sharma. 12. Computer assistance instruction (CAI) in special education/B.C. Mahapatra. 13. Educational research in computer: challenges and opportunities/B.C. Mahapatra. Bibliography. Index.

"The entitled book education in cybernetic age is a collection of thought and thinking of different educationist in India and experimental outcome of educational philosophy in USA schools. Importance of Information technology in teaching learning process along with research findings related to teaching learning objectives are explored in this book. Different chapters of the books are directly access from the truth and experimentation made in different schools and reactions of the parents towards Computer Based Learning (CBL) and how computer based learning facilitated the global concept of educational challenges and opportunities. Virtual classroom teaching new concept of cybernetics age in the teachers training programmed for achieving cent percent of education among the dissimilarities with different geographical constraints in world population and its solution are examined through the IT interventions. It is the effort made for  recapitulating the vision, role and importance of Information Communication Technology venture learning environment and its accessibility in higher education in general with specific to Indian classroom system are elaborated." (jacket)