Technology and Social Construct for the Diffusion of ICT in Higher Educational Setup: A Case Study of Ranchi (Jharkhand)
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2022-09-01
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Chainany E-Journal
Abstract
Education is one of the most important requirement of human being Education is not only the
communication of information by teacher or the achievement of knowledge by the child. But
education is the total development of child‘s personality. In India education is making it more
efficient in terms of teaching and learning. Integration of Information and Communication
technology (ICT) in teaching learning process is becoming a crucial convolution. However, in
education system teachers are playing as a builder of whole educational environment. But
today there is need of ICT diffusion in education sector for creating healthy learning
environment whenever they are teaching. This paper tries to show the ICT diffusion in
education system (mainly higher education) in Ranchi district of Jharkhand by diffusion of
innovation approach covering various aspects like as time, communication channel, innovation
(particular technology used), and social system. Data were drawn from Autonomous Institutes
(IIM, IIFFT and XISC); Universities (Central University of Jharkhand, Ranchi University);
and Colleges (St. Xavier College, Doranda (Boys and Girls) College, Ranchi College, Nirmala
(Boys and Girls) College, Marwari Boys College, and Gossner College) by using semi
structured questionnaire. And by doing analysis it was found that ICT diffusion is taking place
but is varying from autonomous to central universities and college. In turn there is need of such
model which can diffuse ICT in the education system.