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It is providing a variety of opportunities to scattered and rural populations, especially to traditionally
excluded people from education due to cultural or social reasons such as ethnic minorities, girls,
persons with disabilities and the elderly. It is helping people who are abstained from education due to
cost or because of time constraints.

Applications of ICT in Education
Education by ICT is reaching many with quality deliverance in many ways like:

Virtual Class: ICT is in process of making the classrooms digital. In classrooms, digital boards are
being installed along with LCD projectors that are connected to servers of contents over the network/
Internet.
The teachers take the help of such content to demonstrate various topics that help the students to
understand with a broader perspective. Such arrangements also help the teachers to store more
content for further usage than compared to the written content on the board while teaching in class.
Through virtual classes, a live demo of any activity or concept can be given. It establishes a realistic
approach to teaching.

Video Conferencing: ICT helps to organise video conferences that telecast lectures and discussions
about problems and provide instant solutions, clarify doubts, etc. Such classroom teaching is being
supported by the e-learning concept in which projectors and Internet features are used for online
communication by renowned and well-experienced faculties and there is a deliverance of content to
demonstrate important topics as well.
Online Examination: With the increase in resources of ICT, different types of examinations and
competitions are held on computers that are connected to a centralised server of organisers through
the Internet. Such kind of online exams gives immediate results and saves a lot of time, effort and
resources.

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