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EDU 103: Development and Resources in Educational

Technology

CIET & SIET

Prepared by
Nancy Susan Kurian
B.Ed English

It is an institution under the NCERT which

located at New Delhi. It is mainly
concerned with the development of
innovations and with using various media
in education.
It comprises several units such as
Programmed Learning, Educational
Television, Innovations, Production and
Evaluation.
It has organised the training of teachers
for the Satellite Instructional Television
Experiment in different states.

The Institute is concerned with education

at all levels and in all aspects.
It aims at bringing about improvement of
education through various kinds of
educational technologies.
It has to deal with pre-primary, primary,
Secondary and University Education, Open
University Education, Containing
Education, Adult Education and so on.

Designing alternative learning system to

deal with problems of education.
Orientation of educational planners,
administration to the concept of
educational technology.
Training in specialized areas, radio, audio,
television and video production and lowcost teaching aids.

Production of audio-visual educational

materials and other low-cost aids.
Research and evaluation to test and
improve systems, methods and materials.
Extension services for supplying and
screening of educational films, video tapes
and audio tapes to Dooradarsan.

Consultancy of educational technology

and distance education programmes.
Working as co-ordinating agency with the
Ministry of Human Resource Development,
State and International organisations and
UN agencies.

SIET, the State Institute of Educational

technology is responsible for the planning,
research, production and evaluation of
educational softwares like video, audio
programmes and computer multimedia.
SIET Kerala also aims to implement
schemes to generate teaching
technologies and learning process in the
modern context.
Different projects of SIET are:

Objectives of Education Satellite System or

EDUSAT:

Providing effective teacher's training.

Supplementing the curriculum based

teaching.

Greater community participation and

monitoring.

Providing access to quality resource

persons.

Strengthening the distance education

efforts initiated by various agencies.

Taking education to every nook and corner

of the country, and
Providing access to new technologies.

12 hour educational channel for school

education was officially inaugurated by
Hon. Chief Minister of Kerala Shri. V.S.
Achuthananthan on 3rd August 2006.
The project envisions a tri-partite
intervention with teachers, students and
ViCTERS inside the classroom.
The ViCTERS is designed to provide an
excellent alternate source of information
for poor students.

IT@ School is the project that enables

students in Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) and also holds the record for
the largest deployment of free software
anywhere in the world.
It was set up by Government of Kerala in
April 2002.
It offered the perfect opportunity for
introducing ICT to students from different
socioeconomic strata who attend the 3000
odd government and government- aided
schools in the state.

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