ICT: A Boon for Quality Enhancement in Teacher Education Maheshwari Amrita, Principal Institute of Teacher Education, Modinagar, Uttar Pradesh, Email: Amrita_daga@rediffmail.com. Abstract Teacher education system is an important vehicle to improve the quality of education. Therefore, Teacher preparations needs to give more thinking into the different roles a teacher needs to meet the new challenges in the information society. In fact, teacher has to become more of an advisor, a partner, or a facilitator to talk to. Teachers have to seek improved ways of teaching by developing new programme and instructional strategies. 21st century is the century of Information and Communication Technology (ICT). With the advent of ICT and Internet, physical boundaries are vanishing, distances are shrinking and the world is connecting itself into a single global village. In order to become developed country, ICT play a vital role because the revolution in Information technology has opened new horizons for education. Information and communication technology with the globalization of the economic and international trade, education has become a crucial element of socio-economic development. Learning is no longer an initial activity preparing one for the productive life, but rather a continuous necessity to cope with the demands of the society, such information communication technology provides opportunities for flexibility interactivity and accessibility through multi channel applications. ICT can revolutionize the entire Teacher Education system which is the need of the hour with the help of the ICT he can address the three dimensions of education namely; in much planned and systematic way, Foundations, Concepts, Contextual skills, Professional Competence and Maturity, Inter – personal skills, responsibility, accountability. Top Key Words Information and Communication Technology, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Managed Learning, Simulation, EDUSAT. Top |