ICT in Higher Education: A Review of Issues, Challenges and Solutions with Special Reference to India

Abstract

The advancements achieved in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) has its implications in almost all the fields known and Education is one of them. Education is itself referred to as a communication process, so the progress in ICT has proven to be playing an essential supportive role for the same. Higher Education is education, training and research guidance taking place at the post-secondary level. And at this level, the student is expected to understand higher-order concepts which are many times hard to assimilate. The use of ICT proposes various ways to simplify the approach. ICT helps in increase in the speed of learning, consistent instruction, higher and strengthened understanding, effective evaluation, simplified training management, obtaining efficient output and similar other benefits. But dealing related issues, on the other hand, is equally important. Ensuring the quality of content, attitudes of teachers and students, lack of technical support and cost are the major issues of ICT in educational implementation. Making Artificial Intelligence compatible with educational needs and making it able for emotion-involved communication is the main future challenge. Level of ICT awareness and continuous development of the ICT tools for educational implementation is must for the ICT enabled learning to grow in higher education. Educators are required to be aware of the effective use of ICT which ensures the highest level of mental development of the students so that their mental growth is not disturbed because it is easy to represent the content applying visual technology but that does not let the student-run his mind for conceptualization. That is why proper training programs focusing especially on this issue are required to be conducted by the respective authorities. The research article mainly focuses upon all these issues and challenges and propose effective solutions.