India envisioned to be a developed nation by year 2020, growing with impounding economic growth. Economists are on their toes claiming growth of various sectors, which are out of sight of common man. Cartoonist R.K. Laxman’s common man use to read newspaper, but there is uncertainty; whether India’s common man can do so.
This paper addresses present trends in modes of education, namely outreach EduSat based program, e-learning and WEB2.com for bridging gab between those who have or have not. In process of education, information is to be conveyed, interaction between producer (teacher) and receiver (student), confidence level by degree of interaction, question/hour sessions, synthesis of information by assignments and finally formation of knowledge domain. Now, present technology has all these rational knowledge formation process mediums, but it needs to be conceived and practice. EDUSAT, launched on September 2, 2004, is configured for audio-visual medium employing digital interactive classroom lessons and multimedia content. The ground coverage’s are specially configured to cater to the educational requirements of the country. The EDUSAT programme is primarily for school, college and higher levels of education and to support non-formal education.
Networks for IGNOU, CEC/ University Grants Commission (UGC), CIT/National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT), All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) and Department of Science and Technology (DST) have been set up using the national beam. JNU also has SIT EduSat facility, which is underutilized and possibilities are not fully explored. This paper also gives insight into pattern of information spread through EduSat facility across various universities/institutes for outreach programme on Remote Sensing, Geographical Information System and Global Positioning System, conducted by IIRS (NRSA)-DOS in 2007.
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