IT (information technology) is a term that encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange, and use information in its various forms (business data, voice conversations, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations, and other forms, including those not yet conceived). It's a convenient term for including both telephony and computer technology in the same word. It is the technology that is driving what has often been called "the information revolution."
Information Technology in Education
INTRODUCTION Information Technology in Education, effects of the continuing developments in information technology (IT) on education.
Significance of IT in education
• Access to variety of learning resources
They need to make use of the new multimedia technologies to communicate ideas, describe projects, and order information in their work.
• Immediacy to information
IT has provided immediacy to education. Now in the year of computers and web networks the pace of imparting knowledge is very very fast and one can be educated anywhere at any time.
• Any time learning
Now in the year of computers and web networks the pace of imparting knowledge is very fast and one can be educated .One can study whenever he wills irrespective of whether it is day or night and irrespective of being in India or in US because of the boom in IT.