ROLE OF EDUSAT IT’S FUNCTIONS IN EDUCATION

ROLE OF EDUSAT IT’S FUNCTIONS IN EDUCATION

EDUSAT was India’s first full fledged educational satellite. It’s first operational flight took place on 20^th September 2004 from the Satish Dhawan space centre Sriharikottah . After a 17 minutes flight, the satellite weighing 1950 kg was successfully placed in a geo-transfer orbit at a height of 180 km above the earth. It is manipulated by the satellite centre of the ISRO at Bangalore. The projected life of the EDUSAT is 7 to 10 years and it can cover whole geographical India. EDUSAT is mainly indented to meet the demand for an interactive, satellite based distance education system for the country. It is collaborative project of the MHRD, IGNOU and the ISRO.

EDUSAT can cover the whole geographical India with it’s five sport beams covering the northern, north eastern, southern and western region of the country. The sport beams (in Ku-band frequency) used in the EDUSAT are more powerful than that of the INSAT -3B. As a result, it’s signals can the received with a smaller satellite dish and consequently the reception terminal is cheaper.

The EDUSAT is specially configured for an audio visual medium, employing a digital interactive class room and multimedia multi-centric system. It is primarily meet for providing connectivity to the school, college and higher levels of education and also to support non formal education, including developmental communication 

 FUNCTIONS 

1)  It covers all geographical area inside the country

2)  It can provide interactive and cost effective education.

3)  It can provide consistency to information.

4)  The spot beams used in the EDUSAT are more powerful and signals can be received with a smaller satellite dish.

5)  It is a satellite fully dedicated to the cause of education.

6)  It is useful to implement virtual class room in remote and rural schools. The teacher at the transmission end virtually becomes available to all the virtual classrooms at the receiving end. This process can help in overcoming shortage of trained teachers if in service training is giving to the existing teachers in the most economical way.

7)  It can provide audiovisual medium and interactive multimedia facility.

8)  It can open up many possibilities like online teachings, video conferencing etc.

9)  It can be used at all levels of education, from primary schools to professional courses.

10)                     It can provide live lecture session from the best and expert teachers.

11)                     It can facilitate provision of equality in educational opportunity. Before establishing the EDUSAT quality classes and classes handled by experts benefited only urban students. But with the working of the EDUSAT ruler students also can enjoy it’s benefit.

12)                      EDUSAT has enhanced distance education in the country, especially in medical, technical and higher education streams. The project will be run by the ISRO and IGNOU, the former providing the technical infrastructure and the latter developing courses and training teachers.

13)                     Students will get the facility to see what they read in there textbooks and to do experiments with the help of multimedia technologies.

  

AISWARY.K

NATURAL SCIENCE