Ans:- ICT is
increasingly used in the field of education because of its following advantages.
1) ICT can make
education accessible to all. With the use of various communication
technologies, like radio conferencing and the Internet, is possible to provide
education to provide education to people who are isolated by geographic, social
and infrastructural barriers.
2) ICT infuses
greater efficiency in education learning can continue even outside an
educational institution. A learner can
access study materials or recorded lectures of subject experts even from home.
3) The use of ICT
can highly motivate and engage a learner.
It helps in visualising many abstract concepts, fosters enquiry and
stimulates the learner to explore further, on the other hand a slow learner can
use ICT to learn and practise the basic skills at his own pace.
4) Teachers can
use ICT to develop good teaching materials and also to expose the students to a
world of information.
5) Learning
through the use of ICT can provide opportunities and motivation for learning
anywhere, anywhere, any time and at any age. Thus, ICT has the potential to
fulfil the long-standing inspirational concepts of learning as lifelong
activity.
