Information Technology: The core of Future Education

Author: Urmila Pokhriyal

Information Technology has become an integral part of our life. We spend maximum time accessing the Information and Technology in one way or the other. By the use of Information and Technology, our life has become simpler than before. Many businesses run using Information Technology as the medium to interact with the client. Many services are being provided nowadays through Information and Technology.

Not just the services, the mode of payment have been modified to a greater extent, and the Information Technology has changed the style of the transaction from visible to invisible mode. Information and Technology have also put in steps into the education sector and is growing at a tremendous pace. It has replaced the conventional methods of teaching into the newer, advanced and technology driven methods.

Digital Education:

It all started with the availability of Information related to various topics on the Internet. Slowly the Information Technology were being used in teaching the students on projectors and accessing the additional knowledge using the internet at the moment itself. This enables the students to learn things in a different way. Not the teacher can teach them by displaying various pictures and showing them several videos that can help the students to grasp the topics quickly.

Digital Teaching:

Then comes the concept of Digital Teaching. By the use of Information Technology, the teachers have can now teach the students by sitting far from the place. This has helped the students to gain distant education of any subject or courses of their choice. These are also a social angle hidden in the concept. We know that the total teachers in the country are less in proportion to the total students and it is not sufficient to facilitate all of them so by the use of Information Technology the whole mass of students can be educated.

Apps:

In the era of IT, the apps are most prominent in every sector one can think of. In the field of education also, there are many apps developed which can be downloaded and can be used for education purpose. Some of such apps offer lectures on various topics and also enables the students to ask their queries live from the screen.

Future of Information Technology:

The scope of Information Technology is never ending. India is the hub of IT sector, and it is the largest outsourcing centre of IT services in the world. Information Technology has always been the preference of engineering aspirants in India. For that purpose, many top Engineering colleges in India offer B.Tech degree in Information Technology like,

  • Netaji Subhash Institute of Technology (NSIT), Delhi

  • National Institute of Technology(NIT), Surathkal

  • Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad

  • Dhirubhai Ambani Institute of Information and Communication Technology (DAIICT), Gandhinagar

  • Delhi Technological University, Delhi

  • Vellore Institute of Technology, Vellore

  • Manipal University, Manipal

  • Nirma University, Ahmedabad

  • Christ University, Bangalore

  • College of Engineering, Pune

The field of Information and Technology is full of innovation and research. Each passing day some innovation happens in this area that emerges out a new dimension of usage of technology. With the advent of artificial intelligence, the role of IT has increased to the core.