NEW MEDIA & ACADEMICS

 NEW MEDIA & ACADEMICS

Redefined Education through New Media

 Education, an investment of lifetime includes learning at different levels from school to the university. It enables an individual to grow with adequate knowledge, critical thinking and an environment conducive maturation. This knowledge sector definitely shapes the life of an individual into a confident being to make a mark in the competition driven world. Being an important segment of one’s life it evolves and reshapes with the changing society demands. Education is considered as indispensable for the growth of an individual and the socio economic development of a country.

New Media Tools for Learning

Wikis: Wiki is a tool that ensures a better form of public domain interaction and community involvement.Wiki is collection of webpages and is developed so as to accommodate a wide array of content and accesses. Anybody can contribute or modify content in a wiki. Wikipedia, a web encyclopedia is one of the best known wikis.

Social Networking Sites: Social networks are where users set up a profile of themselves, create formal connections to people they know, communicate and share preferences and interests. It allows the individuals to present variety of formats including videos and texts. Facebook, Myspace, linkedIn and so on are the well known social networking sites among college students.

Blogs: Blogs are major interactive tool. An individual can create and update content and can also maintain regular entries of commentary, events or news. Blog sites may be maintained by a single individual, a group of individuals, corporate body and so on. In most of the blog sites, users (usually referred as bloggers) share a lot of common information disseminated through audio, animated graphics and video files.

You Tube: An online video sharing site where videos are uploaded by users and be viewed freely. Users can leave comments on the videos.

Google: Google is the largest search engine on the web it handles several queries through its various services. This search engines lets us find other sites on the web based on keyword searches.

Outreach Learning

Education world is changing immensely with the emergence of new media technology. It is no more a learning school amidst four walls confining just to the static syllabus defined and designed. Today the proportion of outreach learning is evident with the multidimensional approach for education. Outreach learning is defined as learning process beyond the routine classroom and laboratory activities. It provides an educational experience to young college students by incorporating activities like interactions, community learning, peer learning, industrial discussions and exposure supporting the professional development of students. Outreach learning emphasis and enables in building confidence and abilities in subject area bombarding with vivid information and perspectives on academic related topics and general topics. It definitely is an instrument to develop scientific temper and independence of mind. Outreach learning continuously evolves students as skilled and competitive individuals by maximizing their effort through experiential learning. The evolution of new media technology is an innovative change in the world of education by enriching students with new dimension of learning for the competitive world.

Need of the Study

The evolution of new media technology has instigated changes in aspects of human life. It has absolutely heralded the knowledge economy. New media has interwoven itself into fabric of academics. The education is revamping itself as students are ardently using new media for the learning purpose. The conventional idea of enhancing knowledge in a classroom and libraries is seeing changes as students depend on new media for better understanding, extra information, industrial knowledge, current affair and experiential learning. They are involved more in interaction, sharing information, acquiring skills and exemplary understanding. New Media is undoubtedly is causing a significant ripple in higher education by allowing students for greater specialization in curriculum

 Conclusion

 A great transformation is seen from books, libraries to mobiles, computers, and digital media in the era. The era is well a synonym to the e - generation, which is technology driven. Its ingress in to the knowledge economy has significantly changed the learning sphere. It has broadened the academic world from pre set goals like syllabus, examination to skills, world affairs, community learning and of all an experiential learning. It is treading its path to make students carve a niche for themselves in the competitive world. New media technology has bombarded the student fraternity with wide array of rich content, avenues for learning, social participation and medium for expression. It has broken the barriers of learning amidst four walls by providing an exposure to information on academics as well as topic of interest. It is allowing the students to construct their own knowledge and enhance their skills for the professional development. Indeed new media technology is interwoven into academics giving a multidimensional approach to educational sector and the knowledge economy. The New Media technology in education is creating a genre of outreach learning and contributing for the future global leaders

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