Introduction

This site focusses on the importance of incorporating new technologies in the educational field. The last decade has seen what we can call the "Internet Revolution". In India too words like internet, cyberworld, dot com, etc have become part of our daily conversation at home. In the workplace too, there are hardly any departments untouched by the net boom.

Therefore, there is no reason that the educational institutions should stay behind. Imparting education through online courses and tutorials has become quite common. The advent of e-commerce has made it possible to register and pay for the courses online.

Learning over the internet has several advantages:

• First, the individual who wants to learn is not restricted by his/her geographical location or time limitation.
• Second, a person who can quickly grasp the subject matter need not wait for others to understand too, which is not possible in a typical classroom environment. At the same time a person who is a little slow may take the course at his own pace.
• Third, courses developed for the web may prove cheaper than hiring a qualified teacher each time the course is administered.

However, just putting a tutorial online does not provide education in the real sense. There is always a need for communication between the instructor and the students as well as among students. Therefore, facilities such conferencing, mailing, bulletin board, etc need to be sensibly applied and integrated with the course material. The course conducted may also be a combination of classroom sessions and the internet. Now that we know what is meant by online education let us see what work is going on in the field of educational technology around the world. In this site we have tried to incorporate links to various articles, papers, tools, institutions, courses, people, etc that have a focus on educational technology.

You are most welcome to suggest some good links yourself -- we will definitely try to include them in this site.

Thank you

Vidyakash Team