ICT in learning


What is ICT? 

ICT, or information and communications technology (or technologies), is the infrastructure and components that enable modern computing.

Although there is no single, universal definition of ICT, the term is generally accepted to mean all devices, networking component, applications and system that combined allow people and organizations (i.e., businesses, nonprofit agencies, governments and criminal enterprises) to interact in the digital world.

1. Introduction

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) represents “new multimedia technologies, including computer software, CD-ROM, the internet, television, film as well as internet-based project work, e-mail, chat, blogs, wikis, podcasts, and so forth” . In the field of EFL/ESL learning and teaching, ICT is the integration of various technologies of information and communication to benefit from their capacity for the creation, enhancement and optimization of better learning environments. One significant potential of ICT tools is the ability to create and enhance multimedia learning environments for EFL/ESL learning and teaching. Multimedia learning environment is a concept about displaying a combination of more than one media type such as text, image, graphic, drawing, sound, video and animations usually with the aid of technology for the purpose of enhancing understanding or memorization. A large body of extensive research into multimedia learning environments revealed that “considerable and positive influence on language learners' performance is attributed to the increase in the use and exposure to ICT multimedia tools which provide multimedia elements (i.e., the visual and/or spoken text, graphics and videos) for ESL/EFL language learners in the learning environments” .  stated that “information presented in text, spoken words, graphics, and video formats can be integrated to produce authentic, attractive, and multi-sensory/multimedia language learning environments for EFL learners”. For a summary of multimedia tools, technology, components and applications for education, see . YouTube is one of many web-based ICT multimedia tools widely known for its ever-increasing affordances in this regard.


Components of an ICT system

ICT encompasses both the internet-enabled sphere as well as them mobile one powered by wireless networks. It also includes antiquated technologies, such as landline telephones, radio and television broadcast -- all of which are still widely used today alongside cutting-edge ICT pieces such as artifical intelligence and robotics

ICT is sometimes used synonymously with IT (for information technology); however, ICT is generally used to represent a broader, more comprehensive list of all components related to computer and digital technologies than IT.


ICT in teaching: ICT equips audio-visual teaching methods, which boost learners' knowledge retention and interest levels. But ICT in education system is not limited to resource-based teaching. Educators can also create interactive on-screen and off-screen tasks using ICT.

in post pandemic period

Use of ICT witnessed an exponential growth during post pandemic period as most of the activities migrated from offline to online mode. The ICT tools/systems used post Covid are given below

Online Classes, Tutorials, Practicals, Evaluations Through MS Teams

As part of the College's online teaching efforts, Microsoft Teams has been implemented to provide students and teachers with an enhanced instructional experience as MS teams integrates different ICT applications to allow collaborative classrooms. Teachers use this application to provide students with reading material, distribute assignments and grade them during online sessions. In addition to providing effective and timely feedback, the assignment feature allows end-to-end assignment management. Through this application, teachers are able to download daily attendance lists and engage in systematic discussion using the raise hand feature, as well as to record sessions for later use.

The results of this study show that technology-based teaching and learning is more effective in comparison to the traditional classroom (Sumitra et al., 2021). This is because using ICT tools and equipment will prepare an active learning environment that is more interesting and effective for both teachers and students


Youtube Video/Channels

Lecture videos are made available for smooth leaning experience as students can revisit the recorded lectures as per their convenience. 

This work examined the role and impact of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) tools such as YouTube as an open educational resource-cum-tool with respect to its affordances of captions and their adjustable settings like font size and color (i.e., enhanced captions of videos); these affordances were proposed for their multimedia learning effects for the development of ESL learners' writing accuracy. This work hypothesized that the frequent use of these affordances as a technique can create and enhance a multimedia learning environment which can in its turn help learners focus more on the (new) target language input, be more able to notice their errors and correct them by way of conscious comparisons between their own output and target language input. In effect, their L2 writing becomes more accurate over time. This work investigated the role and impact of these YouTube affordances on the development of ESL writing accuracy through exploring the learners' personal experience with and actual use of these affordances for the development of ESL writing accuracy over five months. Moreover, it sought to determine whether or not learners' L2 writing accuracy improved after the implementation of the proposed YouTube affordances for ESL writing improvement. Furthermore, it explored the correlation between the development of learners' L2 writing accuracy, if any, and the impact of these YouTube affordances on the development of ESL writing accuracy. The findings of this study revealed that the frequent use of ICT multimedia tools like YouTube with respect to its affordances of captions and their adjustable settings like font size and color (i.e., enhanced captions of videos) played a positive role that impacted the improvement of learners' English writing accuracy over five months. Also, the findings demonstrated that participants' L2 writing accuracy (as indicated by all the metrics used in this study for measuring the learners' writing accuracy progress) developed significantly after five months of the implementation of the proposed YouTube affordances of enhanced captions as a technique for the development of ESL writing. Furthermore, there was a statistically significant evidence, although ethically speaking this evidence was not conclusive as it was limited by the small sample size of this group of participants and thus the elicited and analyzed data, which suggested that there was a strong correlation between the development of learners' L2 writing accuracy and the frequent use of the proposed YouTube affordances of enhanced captions for the development of ESL writing accuracy. It was concluded that ICT tools such as YouTube with respect to its affordances of captions and their adjustable settings like font size and color (i.e., enhanced captions of videos) can be effectively used and recommended as a technique for the development of learners' L2 writing accuracy due to their positive and enhancing multimedia learning effects.




Keywords: Multimedia learning tools and effects, Cognitive advantages, YouTube affordances, Captions & their adjustable settings, ESL writing accuracy development


conclusion :ICT enhanced learning promotes integrative approach to teaching and learning. As ICT based learning is usually student based, therefore it helps the students to explore and learn rather than just sit and listen to the information being poured to them.


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