Professors go Online
June 26th, 2008
ICT (Information Communication Technology) has had a significant impact on higher education as, both professors and students find rich and rewarding ways to teach and learn, an enthralling experience for both with rich multimedia content and new forms of communication. Technology aided learning has become part of daily life
With Institutes worldwide forming their intranets, Extranets and knowledge networks being created, education itself is evolving into new dimension, Technology is changing the very basics of how knowledge is conceived, developed and consumed.
Today education for students is Whatever Whenever, Wherever, as Students use engaging technologies in collaborative enquiry based learning environments with teachers who are willing and able to use technology power to help them in transforming knowledge and skills into products, solutions and new information, professors find themselves into a new role.
It is advocated the average students of today will have 10-14 jobs that do not currently have an existence. The students look towards their professors to get them prepared for a world of tomorrow. Students were born into a digital world where they expect to be able to create, consume, remix, and share material with others - The professors have to be on the same platform to reach the students. Globally professors are aligning the modern needs as they adopt tools that make textbooks go alive and move towards collaborative way of learning.
Professors go online as technology has opened multiple avenues for professors that were not possible decade a go, avenues that bring higher satisfaction level with professional growth and financial rewards.
Growing Rupee introduces to professors ways of utilizing their knowledge and skills for professional and financial benefits.
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