Learning Through Television Qualitative Assessment of Reach, Access and Usefulness of Ugc-Cec Educational Programmes

The world today is in the midst of one of the most dramatic technological revolutions in history. It is effecting changes in everything ranging from the ways we work, we communicate, we do commerce and the way we spend our leisure time. The technological revolution which is underway centers on computer, information, communication, and multimedia technologies and may be seen to be the beginning of a knowledge or information society. In such a society education has a central role in every aspect of life. The proliferation of communication-information technologies poses tremendous challenges. It compels educators to rethink their basic tenets and to deploy the communication technology in creative and productive ways. The article looks how the learning-teaching environment is restructuring in respond to the technological and social changes that we are now experiencing. The article attempts to give a detail account of the transition of print and book based teaching to multimedia educational broadcasting with new curricula, pedagogy, practices and goals and its acceptance among the college going undergraduate students of Delhi.