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.