EMERGENCE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY (ICTs) IN EDUCATION DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

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Use of Information and Communications Technology (ICTs) in education is not a new concept and it is pre-requisites in India and elsewhere in the world for various field of education. However, its role emerges drastically during the Covid-19 pandemic era in India and elsewhere around the world due to lockdown condition. Therefore, our objective for this article was to see and understand how ICTs scenario changed over time in India before and after Covid-19 pandemic. Various field of education exist from school to higher learning institutes in which major streams are science, engineering and arts. No doubt science and engineering students and teachers are very much familiar with ICTs as compared to arts discipline learners and educators. Therefore, we also looked into that which fields of education are using ICTs and how it progressed over time from 2001 to 2021? We found that ICTs were used since the beginning of 2001 and there role increased over time while during the Covid-19 pandemic era its role emerges drastically. We also found that computer science, electronics engineering, physics, science etc. discipline were using ICTs for education purpose since the beginning of pandemic. However, ICTs role have been increased during pandemic irrespective of schools students or higher education as well as discipline. We can clearly see that now arts students and teachers are well sufficient in using ICTs. In near future role of ICTs will bloom due to generation alpha, who has started technological tools during preschool education.

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