EDUCATION IN INDIA: IMPACT OF GLOBALISATION AND ICT

Book excerpt: The present era of technological innovations and education system is creating a ‘Learning Community’ for the overall development of India. Technology, particularly Social Media and Internet have proved to be a major contributing factor to globalisation in India. e-Learning and e-Governance focuses on how the ‘Information and Communication Technology’ (ICT) in the education sector, relate to globalisation and draw up several future scenarios for their progress. Currently, there has been an increasing gap between what has been imparted to student’s curriculum and what is really in demand. ICT’s impact in addition to the role played by the co-curricular activities has encouraged students, especially differently-abled and has boosted them with self confidence, honesty, adaptation, sociability, sympathetic attitude, social obligation and sense of responsibility. The book is mainly intended to be a part of an effort in creating awareness among the readers about the positive and negative influence of globalisation & ICTs impact on the ‘Indian Education System’ towards a development of the nation. The book is drafted with substantial number of secondary sources, empirical observation and theoretical in nature focusing on the impact of globalisation and use of ICT in the Indian Education System.