MOUNT CARMEL COLLEGE OF TEACHER

EDUCATION FOR WOMEN, KOTTAYAM

ASSIGNMENT ON

EDU.103- DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCE IN EDUCATIONAL

TECHNOLOGY

SUBMITTED TO, SUBMITTED BY,

Dr. Lissy Koshi Soniya P Jose

Dept. Of Education Ist year B.Ed

 Physical Science.

Introduction
Use of computers and new technologies has become a crucial part of learning as well
as teaching. E-learning today has been a key factor in various industries and teaching is one
among them

Quite simply, e-learning is electronic learning, and typically this means using a
computer to deliver part, or all of a course whether it's in a school, part of your mandatory
business training or a full distance learning course.

In the early days it received a bad press, as many people thought bringing computers
into the classroom would remove that human element that some learners need, but as time has
progressed technology has developed, and now we embrace smart phones and tablets in the
classroom and office, as well as using a wealth of interactive designs that makes distance
learning not only engaging for the users, but valuable as a lesson delivery medium.

Building partnerships with quality training providers, and combining this with a
dedicated experienced technical team and support staff, Virtual College provides the perfect
blended learning environment, offering anyone the chance to take their online training to the
next level.

E- BOOK
 An electronic book (or e-book) is a book- or periodical publication made available in
digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on computers or other electronic
devices. Although sometimes defined as "an electronic version of a printed book", some e-
books exist without a printed equivalent. Commercially produced and sold e-books are
usually intended to be read on dedicated e-reader devices. However, almost any sophisticated
computer device that features a controllable viewing screen can also be used to read e-books,
including desktop computers, laptops, tablets and smart phones.

The main reasons that people are buying e-books online are lower prices, increased
comfort (as they can buy from home or on the go with mobile devices) and a larger selection
of titles E-book reading is increasing in the U.S.; by 2014 28% of adults had read an e-book,
compared to 23% in 2013. This is increasing because by 2014, 50% of American adults had a
dedicated device, either an e-reader or a tablet, compared to 30% owning such a device at the
end of 2013.

In 1992, Sony launched the Data Discman, an electronic book reader that could read
e-books that were stored on CDs. One of the electronic publications that could be played on
the Data Discman was called The Library of the Future. Early e-books were generally written
for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted
interest groups. The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals
for hardware, manufacturing techniques, and other subjects. In the 1990s, the general
availability of the Internet made transferring electronic files much easier, including e-books.

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 E-Libraries

US Libraries began providing free e-books to the public in 1998 through their
websites and associated services, although the e-books were primarily scholarly, technical or
professional in nature, and could not be downloaded. In 2003, libraries began offering free
downloadable popular fiction and non-fiction e-books to the public, launching an e-book
lending model that worked much more successfully for public libraries. The number of
library e-book distributors and lending models continued to increase over the next few years.
From 2005 to 2008 libraries experienced 60% growth in e-book collections. In 2010, a Public
Library Funding and Technology Access Study found that 66% of public libraries in the US
were offering e-books, and a large movement in the library industry began seriously
examining the issues related to lending e-books, acknowledging a tipping point of broad e-
book usage.

However, some publishers and authors have not endorsed the concept of electronic
publishing, citing issues with user demand, copyright piracy and challenges with proprietary
devices and systems.

Although the demand for e-book services in libraries has grown in the 2000s (decade)
and 2010s, difficulties keep libraries from providing some e-books to clients. Publishers will
sell e-books to libraries, but they only give libraries a limited license to the title in most cases.
This means the library does not own the electronic text but that they can circulate it for either
a certain period of time or a certain amount of check outs, or both. When a library purchases
a e-book license, the cost is at least three times what it would be for a personal consumer. E-
book licenses are more expensive than paper-format editions because publishers are
concernted that an e-book that is sold could theoretically be read and/or checked out by a
huge number of users, which could adversely affect sales.
 The E-Book e-reader

An e-reader, also called an e-book reader or e-book device, is a mobile electronic

device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading e-books and digital periodicals.
An e-reader is similar in form, but more limited in purpose than a tablet. In comparison to
tablets, many e-readers are better than tablets for reading because they are more portable,

In the space that a comparably sized print book takes up, an e-reader can contain
thousands of e-books, limited only by its memory capacity. Depending on the device, an e-
book may be readable in low light or even total darkness. Many e-readers have a built-in light
source, can enlarge or change fonts, use text-to-speech software to read the text aloud for
visually impaired, elderly or dyslexic people or just for convenience. Additionally, e-readers
allow readers to look up words or find more information about the topic immediately using
an online dictionary.

Printed books use three times more raw materials and 78 times more water to produce
when compared to e-books. While an e-reader costs more than most individual books, e-
books usually have a lower cost than paper books.

E- JOURNALS

Electronic journals, also known as e-journals, and electronic serials, are scholarly
journals or intellectual magazines that can be accessed via electronic transmission. Some
journals are 'born digital' in that they are solely published on the web and in a digital format,
but most electronic journals originated as print journals, which subsequently evolved to have
an electronic version, while still maintaining a print component. As academic research habits
have changed in line with the growth of the internet, the e-journal has come to dominate the
journals world.

An e-journal closely resembles a print journal in structure: there is a table of contents

which lists the articles, and many electronic journals still use a volume/issue model, although
some titles now publish on a continuous basis. Online journal articles are a specialized form
of electronic document: they have the purpose of providing material for academic
research and study, and they are formatted approximately like journal articles in traditional
printed journals. Often a journal article will be available for download in two formats - as a
PDF and in HTML format, although other electronic file types are often supported for
supplementary material. Articles are indexed in bibliographic databases, as well as by search
engines. E-journals allow new types on content to be included in journals, for example video
material, or the data sets on which research has been based.

With the growth and development of the internet, there has been a growth in the
number of new journals, especially in those that exist as digital publications only. A subset of
these journals exist as Open Access titles, meaning that they are free to access for all, and
have Creative Commons licences which permit the reproduction of content in different ways.
High quality open access journals are listed in Directory of Open Access Journals. Most
however continue to exist as subscription journals, for which libraries, organisations and
individuals purchase access.

DIGITAL LIBRARY

A digital library is a special library with a focused collection of digital objects that
can include text, visual material, audio material, video material, stored as electronic
mediaformats, along with means for organizing, storing, and retrieving the files and media
contained in the library collection. Digital libraries can vary immensely in size and scope, and
can be maintained by individuals, organizations, or affiliated with established physical library
buildings or institutions, or with academic institutions. The digital content may be stored
locally, or accessed remotely via computer networks. An electronic library is a type
of information retrieval system.

The term virtual library was initially used interchangeably with digital library, but is
now primarily used for libraries that are virtual in other senses (such as libraries which
aggregate distributed content). In the early days of digital libraries, there was discussion of
the similarities and differences among the terms digital, virtual, and electronic.

A distinction is often made between content that was created in a digital format,
known as born-digital, and information that has been converted from a physical medium, e.g.
paper, through digitization. It should also be noted that not all electronic content is in digital
data format. The term hybrid library is sometimes used for libraries that have both physical
collections and electronic collections

Some important digital libraries also serve as long term archives, such as arXiv and
the Internet Archive. Others, such as the Digital Public Library of America, seek to make
digital information from various institutions widely accessible online.
 Many academic libraries are actively involved in building institutional repositories of
the institution's books, papers, theses, and other works which can be digitized or were 'born
digital'. Many of these repositories are made available to the general public with few
restrictions, in accordance with the goals of open access, in contrast to the publication of
research in commercial journals, where the publishers often limit access rights. Institutional,
truly free, and corporate repositories are sometimes referred to as digital libraries.

CONCLUSION

The efforts of teachers and technology combined to improve the quality of education
and learning attempts to emphasize a number of advantages. Though the use of e-learning is
growing in teaching, there are still certain drawbacks attached to it. Advancement in E-
learning extends further possibilities of learning going beyond traditional way of teaching.

Easy access to materials, flexible space, time and pace of study and immediate
feedback are some of the advantages that make language learning a fun thing to go.

Overall the advantages are numerous. But talking about the other side, there are some
drawbacks that can keep the traditional method at an edge. The creation, preparation and
uploading of the material is time-consuming and requires the teachers to put in a little extra
effort that is required in the traditional methods of teaching.

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