E4 Education

Assessing students’ performance is an integral part of the teaching-learning process. For this, you need to adopt various techniques of evaluation. Choice of evaluation techniques should be aligned with the learning objectives. Students learn information at different pace. You, as a teacher, have to find out the extent of students’ learning and the interventions required for facilitating rather than to master the desired content. When you assess your students, you collect information about their level of performance where as in evaluation; you compare a student’s achievement with other students with a set of standards. Evaluation is integrated into all aspects of the curriculum, thus providing both students and teachers useful and relevant data to gauge progress of students. Not only teachers but also students play an important role in assessing their own learning progress. While assessing students, you need to keep the following points in mind: ·      ...

Of late, we come across many modern electronic devices in classroom, like computer. Communication through these devices is done using images, animations, videos and graphics. Many media are used for concept formation, attainment as well as clarification. Multimedia are used on the premise that students learn better from well-designed multi-media materials in comparison to traditional modes of communication. The basic premise is that more the number of senses involved, the more efficacious is student learning. Multimedia uses text, graphic, animation, video and sound in a unified and integrated manner so that the content is presented to students comprehensively. This comprehensibility would have been less if only one medium was used. Thus, we may say that Multimedia uses text, graphic art, sound, animation, and video in different combinations but in an integrated and holistic manner. Elements of Multimedia Multimedia has six basic elements: Text, Images, Graphics, Aud...

CAI As the name suggests, CAI is an interactive and self-learning technique. The content is presented on computer screen and the learner interacts with the computer for learning. It could be offline/online, involving interaction of the student with the contents presented on the computer screen in the form of programmed instruction. CAI uses a multimedia i.e. combination of text, graphics, sound and video in enhancing the learning process. It is delivered through the use of the computer to facilitate and improve instruction. Important modes of delivery or instructional strategies used in CAI are tutorials, drill and practice, simulation, games, etc.. These are used for presentation of content and assessment of learner understands. Therefore, a typical CAI will have multimedia content, mostly text, multiple choice questions, problems for application, immediate feedback, notes on incorrect response, exercises for practice, and result of learner performance. Advantages of ...