Technology Seminar

SEMINAR REPORT

TOPIC: RESOURCE CENTRES SERVICE IN EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY: CIET (NCERT)

SUBJECT & CODE: EDU-03 TECHNOLOGY AND

COMMUNICATION IN EDUCATION

Submitted to 

Mrs. PARVATHY V PRASAD 

Assistant Professor 

Submitted On 12/11/2022

 

Submitted by 

SALINI T 

I Semester 

B. Ed Social Science

  F.M.T.C Kollam

INDEX

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING(NCERT); AN INTRODUCTION 3

ESTABLISHMENT OF NCERT 3

IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF NCERT 4

CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY (CIET) 4

CONCLUSION 5

 

NATIONAL COUNCIL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH AND TRAINING(NCERT); AN INTRODUCTION

The National Council of Educational Research and Training was established in New Delhi on 1stSeptember, 1961 for providing academic support in improving the quality of school education in India. It is the academic adviser to the Ministry of Human Resource Development (HRD) of the Government of India. It is concerned with all problems of school education in the country, and endeavours to improve such education through developing various programmes of research, publication, extension training. NCERT also provides technical advice to states as to how to improve the standard of state science exhibitions and their exhibits for national science exhibitions.

NCERT has the National Institute of Education located at Delhi. NCERT has a large publishing house. It published model text-books, hand-books, guide books and children’s literature or supplementary reading materials. NCERT possesses a production workshop with huge qualities of materials flowing in and flowing out. The central Institute of Education which is a constituent college of the University of Delhi maintained by the NCERT and provides facilities for courses of study leading to the B.Ed. and M.Ed. degrees. NCERT maintains four regional colleges of education at Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar and Mysore. NCERT assists several states in their curriculum development, writing of text books and reviewing of school text-books.

The success of the NCERT will depend on the extent to which it gains confidence of the entire country and gets accepted by the professional group of various states in the field of school education. The impact of NCERT text books on the classroom practices has been tremendous. Beside CBSE affiliated schools, the organizations like the Kendriya Vidyalaya Sanghatan (KVS) and the Navodaya Vidyalaya Sanghatan use NCERT text books. One hopes and wishes that the NCERT’s vision is spelt out soon through a policy decision/declaration in which all undefined aspects of text book preparation and production are spelt out clearly.

ESTABLISHMENT OF NCERT

Ministry of Education of Indian Government established NCERT in 1961. NCERT is an autonomous-organization, working as an academic using of the Ministry of education. It assists the said Ministry in the formulation and implementation of its policies and programmes in the field of education. It is expected to encourage student teachers and teacher educators to conduct educational research. In order to fulfil these, maintain objectives, it has established National Institute of Education (NIE) at Delhi and four regional colleges of education at Ajmer, Bhopal, Bhubaneswar and Mysore. It also works collaboration with the departments in the states, the universities and institutes, following objectives of school education. It also maintains close-contact with similar national and international institutions throughout the world. It communicates result of its researches to a common man by publishing books and journals.

The establishment of NCERT in 1961 was a major step taken for the development of school education which involves teacher education also. Amongst the significant contribution of NCERT are:

• Revamping of Elementary and Secondary Teacher education curriculum.

• Reorganizing of student teaching and evaluation.

• Institution of All-India surveys on teacher education.

• Focus on continuing education of teachers through establishments of centres of continuing education.

• Recognition to contributions to education by outstanding school teachers and teacher educators through a scheme of national awards.

IMPORTANT FUNCTIONS OF NCERT

The functions of NCERT broadly relate to (a) research and development, (b) in-service and pre-service training, and (c) extension and dissemination work- all these tuned to achieve the main objective of improving the quality of school education.

 Develops curriculum, instructional and exemplar materials, methods of teaching, techniques of evaluation, teaching aids, kits and equipments, learning resources, etc.

•         To monitor the administration of NIE/ Regional colleges of education.

•         To prepare and publish study material for students and related teacher’s handbooks.

•         Organizes pre-service and in-service training of teachers, teacher educators and other educational personnel;

•         To undertake aid, promote and co-ordinate research in all branches of education for improving school-education.

•         Conducts and promotes educational research.

•         To search talented students for the award of scholarship in science, technology and social sciences.

•         Disseminates improved educational techniques and practices and research findings.

•         To undertake functions assigned by the Ministry of education (now HRD) for improving school-education.

Acts as a cleaning house for ideas and information on all matters relating to school education and teacher education.

The programmes formulation is based on the National Policy of on education, interactions with the state education authorities, assistance sought by the central educational organizations, and the assessment of educational needs of the country for qualitative improvement of school education by the faculty of the NCERT.

CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY (CIET) 

  

The Central Institute of Educational Technology (CIET) was established in 1984 by the Ministry of Human Resources Development of Government of India, under the umbrella of the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT). The institute is located at NIE Campus, NCERT in New Delhi, the capital of India. The origin of the institute was affected by merging two departments of NCERT, Centre for Educational Technology and Department of Teaching Aids, with an aim to make the new age technologies in mass media available at the school level. The activities of the Institute are centered on the branches of media such as radio, television, movies, satellite communications and cyber media.  

CIET is involved in various activities such as design, development and dissemination of alternative learning systems, promotion of Educational Technology, training of personnel in Educational Technology, coordination of activities of its subsidiaries like the State Institutes of Education Technology (SIET) and consultancy and media support to other constituents of NCERT. 

The institute is housed in a spacious building with open courtyards, amphitheater, two television studios, two sound studios, technical control rooms, workshop, seminar rooms, rehearsal areas and projection facilities, library, canteen, administrative areas and artists' studios. The institute also provides courses in education at bachelors, masters and doctoral levels. 

CONCLUSION

National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) is an apex resource organization set up by the Government of India, to assist and advice the central and state Governments on academic matters related to school education. NCERT also provides technical advice in how to improve the standard of science-based education. The NCERT performs the important functions of conducts and promotes educational research, improve educational techniques, practices and research findings, develops curriculum instructional and exemplar materials, methods of teaching, techniques of evaluation, teaching aids etc. The NCERT offers the pre-service and in-service training of teachers at various levels such as pre-primary, elementary, secondary and higher secondary and also in such areas as vocational education, educational technology, guidance and counseling and special education. NCERT has a large publishing house. It publishes model text books, hand-books, guide books and children’s literature or supplementary reading books. The constituents of NCERT are NIE, CIET, ERIC, RIEs etc. NCERT aims at bringing about improvement of education through various kinds of educational technologies.  It is a major step taken for the development of school education which involves teacher education also.