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Development of Education System

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What is the role of computers in gobalization of education?

Self Assessment
2. State whether the following statements are ‘True’ or ‘False’:
(i) Video projection screens, books with storage device servers and CD ROMs are now
replacing blackboards.
(ii) Communication technology is offering new challenges for students of all abilities as
they can discuss issues of concern with their fellow students from around the world.
(iii) Income, information and education gaps between the rich and poor are narrowing.
(iv) The television services have not been very relevant in the technological shift.

28.3 Summary

• Globalization is a process, which has affected many areas of human life, one of those
being education.
• Education, as a service industry, is part of globalization process under the umbrella of
General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).
• Thus, several teachers’ organizations are on record opposing the inclusion of education in
the GATS, on the ground that education was not a commodity. Incidentally, there is an
emerging threat from the process of globalization in the recent times. “Globalization can
lead to unregulated and poor quality higher education, with the world wide marketing of
fraudulent degrees or other so-called higher education credentials”.
• Globalization is both a process and a theory. Roland Robertson, with whom globalization
theory is most closely associated, views globalization as an accelerated compression of
the contemporary world and the intensification of consciousness of the world as a singular
entity.
• several specialist committees, involving the elites and captains of industry and education,
constituted by the Union ministry are engaged in the process.
• As part of more than 500 residential schools were established in rural India. Simultaneously
it has focused public attention upon hitherto mysterious subjects such as syllabus design
and curriculum development and shifted national attention from ritual to really quality
education.
• Education is undergoing constant changes under the effects of globalization. The effects of
Globalisation on education bring rapid developments in technology and communications
are foreseeing changes within school systems across the world as ideas, values and
knowledge, changing the roles of students and teachers, and producing a shift in society
from industrialisation towards an information-based society.
• The introduction of technology into the classroom is changing the nature of delivering
education to students is gradually giving way to a new form of electronic literacy.
• Video projection screens, books with storage device servers and CD ROMs as well as the
emergence of on-line digital libraries are now replacing blackboards. Even exams and
grades are gradually becoming available through electronic means and notebooks are
starting to give way to laptops.
• Computers maintain libraries of text, images, computer software, and other forms of data
that can be accessed by anyone, anywhere, at any time. This implementation of technology
and communication to be successful and to educate a society, both the students and teachers
need to be technologically literate.

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