Communication And Media Technology: Impact On Modern Undergraduates' Education

Discussion

Discuss about the Communication and Media Technology.

Vaishnavi and Kuechler (2015) states that communication technology helps people by simplifying the working procedure of their regular work by the developing modern technology in every field. Especially the high-school and university students are benefited most by the implementation of communication technology in their academic institute. Peeraer and Van Petegem (2012) depicted that these students can communicate with their mentors and can attend webinars for gathering more information relating with their syllabus. Proceeding in this way, the educational organization not only promotes digital literacy but it will also make the student more concern about the evolving technology (Bloom et al., 2014). In this essay, the effect of these communication technologies on the study of modern undergraduates will be explained along with some comparative examples by using relevant theoretical positions. Lastly, the assignment wraps up with the overall conclusion of the study.

Communication technologies help people to communicate with each other in every field- business, social life and even in education.In conventional time, students have to present physically for attaining knowledge in the academic institutes; however, in recent times, there are facilities like distant education in which a student can pursue their education through internet and communication technology. Thus, Sarkar (2012) stated that irrespective of the geographical barriers and time, communication technology adds flexibility in the education system by enabling them to learn from anywhere in the world. 86% of the mentors in Europe affirmed that contemporary student gets more motivated to know by the implementation of the communication technology. Moreover, application of ICT technologies in education makes the undergraduate to learn about the basic functionalities of the computers and its concept. Gardenfors and Johansson (2014) illustrate that this knowledge will help them to proceed in a generous way towards their education. Appropriate information and communication technology will raise awareness of the social impact of the technological change. In this assignment, the effect of communication technology for undergraduates in their education system is being heightened. Coelho and Segatto (2013) mentions that an undergraduate can search through various websites and search engines for their research work for their textual knowledge that is conventionally done only through by textbooks and library books. Proceeding in this way, the concerned students can develop their quality of education as these communication technologies support the students in challenging subject areas (Hashim 2015). Moreover, undergraduate students can learn about the different culture and different theory regarding a particular theory and can add relevant details in order to make their work more efficient. Exampling the scenario, if an assignment this given on the cultural values of Australia, the student can make the assignment more efficient by searching on the internet and appropriate statistical data for the development of the culture of the country. In this way, the student not only accomplishes their task with conventional data but by relevant statistical information for supporting the content of the writing.

Advantages of Communication and Media Technology in Education

Peeraer and Van Petegem, (2012) illustrate these contemporary undergraduate students can able to improve their skill test and platform to creativity with the help of the Facebook, Twitter, i/Technologies and YouTube to enrich their creativity. Sarkar (2012.) furthermore added that these media would help media and communication literature undergraduates to search for study materials according to their level of understanding, which help them to develop their skills with the expertise advice. Gardenfors and Johansson (2014) demonstrate that all these factors develop the concept of the media psychology, which at one hand helps in to take the lecture faster than the conventional method, and on the other hand, can make them using other social networking sites during dull lectures. Undergraduate students can present their seminars or presentation related to their education materials by virtually present in the classroom.

Social psychology is a branch in which the students learn how to interact with the people in their surrounding and neighbourhoods, however, Herselman and Botha, (2014) shows the advantage that people nowadays can communicate with distant people as they are doing with their mentors by sitting anywhere in the world. However Rienties et al. (2012) depict that these students are getting more distracted and have less communication with the locals as these information technology devices make them engage all the time even in the time when they are not studying. This reduces their level of interaction with other, which affect their verbal communication skills. Celik and Yesilyurt (2013) also highlighted that the students became more dependent on the machines rather than using their intellect ability to resolve a situation. With the regular use of machines and searching required stuff in the search engine, students cannot use their ideology for explaining anything based on their experience.

Bates, (2014) depict that the advantages of communication technology the speed through which the educational information is provided to the undergraduate students. Moreover, the students that can help them in their education by researching enormous educational source and projects work. The webinars and distant lectures can be delivered in time to contemporary undergraduates in both of the case when the students are not present in the class and when the teachers are not available in the university infrastructure. Proceeding in this way, no single class is being cancelled and appropriate notes will efficiently be delivered to the learners. However, Page, (2013) negates that the development of communication technology affects the ability of student for direct communication. Thus, it becomes difficult for the mentors to understand individual's nature according to which they should customize the learning procedure so that everyone can understand the syllabus. () also affirm in the context of the growing development of the communication technology that in rural countries of developing nations, it is not possible for this distant education pursuing undergraduate students to afford for an adequate internet facility through they can accomplish their studies. In this way, they cannot able to attain notes as well as a concept useful for their examination and results in creating hassle in educational procedure. (Rienties et al. (2013) supports the advantage of using information and communication technology that a huge database is used along with the modern facility of the cloud computing technology for storing the student’s data and educational information that can be retrieved anytime in required times. On the other hand, Roztocki and Weistroffer (2015) negates that it is not safe that all the data are centralized under one database as anyone having the wrong intention can easily hack these details and deleted all the database.

Disadvantages of Communication and Media Technology in Education

Conclusion

Communication technology by simplifies the working procedure of regular work. In business, people use these technologies for accomplishing business projects. In the education system, students can diminish the socio-economic, geographical and linguistic barriers of the mentors and their classmates as they use the communication technology for a better outcome of their study. Students, who peruse distant education, can use these communication technologies by sitting in distance place. The students can also converse with their mentors by the utilization of the evolving technologies like Skype and Google. However, some pitfalls are also associated with these communication technologies as it diminishes the verbal communication with the nearby people as these students become more dependent on these technology devices. Some poor undergraduate student, who peruses distant education of developing counties also, cannot afford the internet cost, which will affect their studies.

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