Media in Education, Research and Innovations( MERI) is a noble effort initiated by a group of educators and teacher educators of India to promote the ICT in various institutions across all levels of education including HEIs. Being located near the foot hills of Aravali and away from the maddening crowd of historical city Jaipur, Rajasthan, MERI conveys the messages to each and every potential individual of the country for an immediate transformation to become Ind-Netizens.
Social taboos and stigma coupled with low HDI( Human Development Index), vis-a-vis, low per capita income are responsible for such retarded growth in development of our society. Undoubtedly, as a nation we had had glorious past in academics and intellectual endeavors, lovely present and a promising excellent future. What matters significant at the outset is to transform the attitude of each and every citizen of India toward utmost utilization of ICT. The dialogues between two passengers elsewhere have been depicted below to understand the mind set of individuals in the current era of globalized knowledge economy.
Passenger-1: Oh..you have such a big luggage...
Passenger-2: Yes, these are books and supplementary readings for my daughterPassenger-1: Why did you purchase such books? Your daughter knows how to operate computers.
Passenger-2: Oh..yes, but there is no internet facilities at my home. My husband does not allow her to work online...Passenger-1: oops...You can change your husband's attitude by giving the details of expenditure incurred on purchasing books from time to time and the expenditure on a desktop and internet facilities. Now a days, internet facilities are available at reasonable price.. tryPassenger-2: Thanks
The above cited dialogues may appear to be fictitious to many of us but this is the reality. Now a days, you might have seen netizens who never wear wrist watch. To them, if you have mobile or electronic gadget than where is the need of a watch. A handy mobile is sufficient enough to provide you everything, such as, time, calculations and computing( simple and advanced), camera, dictionary, thesaurus etc. Many of us habitually download from the web sites a number of information, beginning with gardening to kitchen, from academic to entertainment and so on and so forth.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case-1: Self-Learning Material Development in para medical programmes-- from the diary of an instructional designer
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Instructional design was unknown to the whole world a couple of decades ago as it is important in the knowledge economy. As distance learners vary with their interests and aptitude and alike regular mode of education, instructional design becomes necessary for accommodating wide range of student population. It is often argued that lesson plans or instructional plans are of no use in day to day teaching, but in all teacher training programmes lesson planning is an essential component. The age old concept of lesson planning has been replaced with instructional plans. Designing instruction, alike teaching or instruction, is not every body's cup of tea. Many scholars fail significantly in teaching concepts, while a few of them achieve success in teaching. What makes them to perform differently? How do instructions differ from one subject to another?
Social taboos and stigma coupled with low HDI( Human Development Index), vis-a-vis, low per capita income are responsible for such retarded growth in development of our society. Undoubtedly, as a nation we had had glorious past in academics and intellectual endeavors, lovely present and a promising excellent future. What matters significant at the outset is to transform the attitude of each and every citizen of India toward utmost utilization of ICT. The dialogues between two passengers elsewhere have been depicted below to understand the mind set of individuals in the current era of globalized knowledge economy.
Passenger-1: Oh..you have such a big luggage...
Passenger-2: Yes, these are books and supplementary readings for my daughterPassenger-1: Why did you purchase such books? Your daughter knows how to operate computers.
Passenger-2: Oh..yes, but there is no internet facilities at my home. My husband does not allow her to work online...Passenger-1: oops...You can change your husband's attitude by giving the details of expenditure incurred on purchasing books from time to time and the expenditure on a desktop and internet facilities. Now a days, internet facilities are available at reasonable price.. tryPassenger-2: Thanks
The above cited dialogues may appear to be fictitious to many of us but this is the reality. Now a days, you might have seen netizens who never wear wrist watch. To them, if you have mobile or electronic gadget than where is the need of a watch. A handy mobile is sufficient enough to provide you everything, such as, time, calculations and computing( simple and advanced), camera, dictionary, thesaurus etc. Many of us habitually download from the web sites a number of information, beginning with gardening to kitchen, from academic to entertainment and so on and so forth.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Case-1: Self-Learning Material Development in para medical programmes-- from the diary of an instructional designer
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Instructional design was unknown to the whole world a couple of decades ago as it is important in the knowledge economy. As distance learners vary with their interests and aptitude and alike regular mode of education, instructional design becomes necessary for accommodating wide range of student population. It is often argued that lesson plans or instructional plans are of no use in day to day teaching, but in all teacher training programmes lesson planning is an essential component. The age old concept of lesson planning has been replaced with instructional plans. Designing instruction, alike teaching or instruction, is not every body's cup of tea. Many scholars fail significantly in teaching concepts, while a few of them achieve success in teaching. What makes them to perform differently? How do instructions differ from one subject to another?
