Digital Communication In Education

With the rapid changes in technology, many educational institutions are using the internet for distance education programs. The internet is an interconnection of thousands of computers across the globe and very powerful communication.Distance educator can use e-mail for sending messages over the internet, gathering feedback, making important announcements and for other communication. Learners can send their feedback and queries through e-mail and receive responses from educators. Education and learners can also participate in newsgroups. There are thousands of newsgroups available on the internet. On a wide variety of topics. E-mail stands for electronic mail. E-mail can be used to send and receive messages over a computer network. A newsgroup is an online discussion forum where the user can post and view messages.School have also started using multimedia during various meetings and functions, such as their Annual Day celebrations, where the annual report, the credits for the play and the honour list are displayed on a huge screen. Similar presentations are also made during parent teacher association meeting. Online Tests and Publishing of Test ResultsStudent can take online tests by using the computer and get results instantly. Several universities post their examination forms on their Web sites. Students can go to the Web site and fill and sibmit the examination form over internet, instead of filling it up on paper and sending it through post. Various universities and school examination boards, such as the central Board of Secondary Education and other state boards, also provide examination results over the internet. Students can thereby view the results within few minutes their announcement. A web site is a location on the world wide web. The world wide web is a system of servers on the internet that support documents formatted in hypert text markup lahguage. HTML is the amin language used to create web pages. A web apge is adocument on the world wide web identified by a unique uniform Resource Locator.