IMPACT OF ICT TOOLS AND TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TEACHING-LEARNING PROCESS TOWARD A DIGITAL EDUCATION SYSTEM IN INDIA

Author Name: 1. Sanhita Dasgupta 2. Dr. Banti Ganguly

Volume/Issue: 02/11

Country: India

DOI NO.: 08.2020-25662434 DOI Link: https://www.doi-ds.org/doilink/05.2022-79725786/UIJIR

Affiliation:

1. Assistant Professor, Bir Bikram Memorial College, Agartala, Tripura, India                           
2. Assistant Professor, Bir Bikram Memorial College, Agartala, Tripura (West), India

ABSTRACT

Integration of Information and Communication Technology has become an integral part of today’s Education System. Extensive use of rich ICT tools and technologies in classroom teaching as well as in teachers' training programs for their professional development are gaining huge popularity day by day. Digital learning tools like Kahoot, Google Classroom, Mind map, Seesaw, Edu clipper have a great impact in making teaching-learning more interesting to the learners. Free online resources and several MOOCs platforms enable teachers and learners to enhance their skills continuously affordably and flexibly. With the easy availability of the internet, India has witnessed a huge growth of using digital tools and equipment in the educational system in a cost-effective manner over the last years. Zoom, Google Meet, Skype, Cisco WebEx, and other reliable video conferencing platforms rescued the education system throughout the world during the covid-19 days The present article describes the scope of using ICT tools and technologies for making the teaching-learning process more digital, systematized, inquiry-based and collaborative. It also gives a short description of the remarkable initiatives of GOI in the field of both School and Higher Education to move towards a digital education system. Here we have also analysed the growth of ICT-based education in India over the past years.

Key words: ICT tool, Digital equipment, Online resource, MOOCs Platform, Teaching-learning process.