EDUSAT ( Educational Satellite)
EDUSAT launched in the year 2004 on 20th
September by ISRO in India .It is dedicated purely to education.
EDUSAT aims
to connect urban and rural educational institutions throughout India to provide
a formal educational infrastructure and also to help spread knowledge about
health and other related issues to more remote areas of the country.
The satellite will enable distance
education to take place throughout India by interfacing with video from each
school. The ISRO satellite program currently covers more than 1,000 schools and
is expected to grow to 10,000 schools in the next three years.
Satellite
is naturally important in a country that has several high-tech centers
but covers a vast amount of geography most of which is manifestly unwired.
While asynchronous, satellite does offer interactive possibilities.
The satellite will be used for learning in many ways, such as beaming
local language-instruction programs to address illiteracy. For example, one
program allows students to send video questions to any teacher in any connected
classroom, anywhere in India, using a streaming video card over the EDUSAT
satellite. The teacher then responds to these questions through EDUSAT. The
satellite also will be used in teacher training.
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