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Computer plays a significant role in each and every field of life. It is widely used by engineers, doctors, businessman, shopkeepers, teachers, students etc for every type of work. In short, not only in just one, but the Computer plays an all-rounded role in each and every field. Computers has made our jobs easy and quick and life comfortable in several ways. For example, they find applications in transportation in booking e-tickets, making bills in various big shops & malls, creating presentation slides in application software for making notes & delivering lectures in colleges, universities and a lot more.<br>

Computer has brought a revolution in the field of education as it shifted the education from four walls of the classroom to the world without walls. The teacher and learner are connected globally through internet services.<br>

APPLICATION OF COMPUTER IN EDUCATION Computer is an important tool in teahing learning proess. Application of computers in education becomes important to make the young teachers self dependent through use of electronic devices in the Classroom environment. Computer aided instructions (CAI) has made teaching learning process simple and interesting for the learners.<br>

1. Computers are used for Teaching & Learning : Being actively used in various educational institutes like schools, colleges & big universities, computers are used to aid the learning process of students. Professors in colleges & teachers in schools take help of audio-visual techniques to prepare lesson plans for students. For this, they use Microsoft PowerPoint to prepare electronic presentations about their lectures. These electronic presentations can be shown on multimedia and sound projectors in classrooms.
2.Computer as a source of knowledge/ E-learning : Computer is a best source to gain knowledge on various subjects. Information can be downloaded from internet on different topics and saved in computer for further reading to gain knowledge.
3.Computers can be used to exchange Lectures and views: The lectures and views delivered by the subject experts and scholars can be exchanged as video or notes through internet. These lectures can eailsy downloaded from websites.<br>

4. Research: Computers can be used for online education & research. With the help of the internet, students can find useful information about their projects, assignments and also can take useful help from other researchers as they store & organize their research materials in computers.
5. Computer-Based Training (CBT): In CBT (Computer Based Training), various projects & educational programs are prepared or set up with the assistance of expert educators and audio-visual media help. These educational programs are generally set up in the shape of lectures on a specific subject/ topic & are given on CDs. Students can learn when they wish at their homes.<br>

6. Daily Planner/ Timetable: Daily lesson plans activity schedule and time tables are prepared in a computer and circulated among schools,colleges and teachers through email facility or print copies. Academic calenders are also prepared through calender app.
7. Online Examination and Evaluation : Computers are used to give online exams and for evaluation purpose. GRE,NET,GMAT etc. Examinations are conducted and evaluated online. It helps in declaring results quickly.
8. Question Bank : Questions can be framed in a question bank through a computer. Many tests or examination an be designed and conduted through this question bank source.<br>

9. Use of computers in Libraries : Computers are used for issue and return purpose in a library. The details of books and users along with their name, class and roll numbers can be stored in library management software.We can easily find number of books issued to users through his persoanl record.
10. Use of computers in administration: Lots of circulars and directions and other correspondances are made between the education board and schools everyday through emails and internet service.
11. Online Assignment: Computers are used to prepare assignments and projects.<br>

Uses/Advantages of Computer in Education Huge & organized store of information: Students and teachers can download and store a lot of educational materials, books, presentations, lecture/ address notes, question papers, and so on in computers. Students can find many different ways to solve a certain problem given to them. Through Computer, they can interact with people having same issues .
Audio-visual guides in teaching process for a viable learning: Appealing and Better introduction (presentation) of data through applications programming software like Microsoft PowerPoint to introductions for creating splendid presentations for lectures & notes.<br>

3. Parents can know their wards’ progress: The Computer has helped parents & guardians a lot as they can likewise know by checking every minute progress of their children through computers and the web by browsing the school’s website. They can check different assessment results, attendance reports, participation in curricular and co-curricular activities.
4. Quick Communication & Correspondence: Another main advantage of using computers in the education field is the improvement in the quality of teaching-learning process and communication between students & teachers.<br>

5. Computers in education enable us to teach more effectively : With computers we can individualize instruction, grant students autonomy(self-control) and empower students to learn at their own pace.
6. Computers makes the knowledge interesting: Study topics are made interesting with colorful images, writing text in beautiful font faces and adding music to slides.<br>

7. Computers saves time: All the information on any subject and content is available on the internet and can be searched with the help of computer. It saves time and energy.
8. Quick processing of data: Speed is the fundamental attributes of a computer. We can easily find information with just a single touch of a button.
9. Less wastage of paper: Notes may be uploaded and stored on computer without any use of paper. No photocopy is required for these notes because these notes can be read on computer.<br>