Role of Media in Education

Media
 Media may refer to communications. Communication tools used to
store and deliver information or data.
Print Media: Newspapers, Magazines, Books and other printed
material
Electronic Media: Radio, Television, Internet, Cinema etc.

Introduction
Media is everywhere, it has become a part of our daily life. Media play a
dominant role in the learning process. Media has potential to shape
personalities, change the way we perceive and understand the world
and our immediate reality.

Role of Print Media in Education

The role of Print Media in the process of education is very good. Print
Media like Newspapers, Journals and Magazines are the basic oldest
channels of communication between one source to other. Print Media
are being printed in every regional language to facilitate, the readers to
get information and knowledge in one’s own mother tongue.

Newspaper:
Through newspapers, we can get news, information, and we can learn
our National Language, and English Newspapers are very helpful to
learn the English Language. Newspapers was the best way of learning
before Independence, and creating public opinion in the time of Sir
Syed Ahmad Khan.

Journal:
Journals are magazines which publish on the daily bases. The journal of
educational change in an international, professionally referred, state of
the art scholarly journals, reflecting the most important ideas and
evidence of educational change. The journal of educational change
welcomes and supports contributions from a range of disciplines,
including history, psychology, political science, sociology, anthropology,
philosophy and administration and organizational theory and from a
broad spectrum of methodologies including quantitative and qualitative
research and conceptual developments.

Magazines:
 Through magazines, we can learn by articles, features, interviews, short
stories, and we can get very nice literature by magazines. Different
types of magazines having different and versatile knowledge of over all
the world.

Books:
Book is the best source of education. A lot of material of formal and
informal education is available in the books. Mostly students depend
upon this medium to learn the education. In spite of modern
technology, still this medium is popular for the learning.

Role of Electronic media in education

Radio:
Radio is also playing an important role in education. Talk shows about
politics, finance and other programs are the source of informal
education. Many Personalities, Scholars, Professionals come in radio as
a chief guest, by live calls, we take a lot of information and learned by
this way.

Community radio system:

 Community Radio System have made for education. Radio has now
started to enter into the education sector with the name of community
radio system. The term community radio signifies radio broadcasting
with the objectives of serving the community by involving members of
the community. It will help the students to hone their public speaking
skill. The number of broadcasting organizations have moved forward to
introduce community radio in schools and colleges. With the
introduction of this technology, quite a few civil society organizations
have come forward to broadcast their educative radio programming.
Moreover, this kind of radio will help students to revise their classroom
teaching, which they may forget. The impact of community radio is
massive and its impact felt on every section of the society.

Television:
Television is the powerful media that will reach all sorts of people. It is a
source of informal education.TV does play an important role in shaping
a person’s life, both professionally and personality. It does provide the
value addition knowledge to the concerned person, irrespective of his
profession. We’ve a lot of programs on almost everything. There is
something for everyone, Channel like Discovery, National Geographic,
Animal Planet etc. does provide us with immense knowledge from the
subject inventions.TV provide to learn so many things like politics,
business, finance, nature, different languages learn through dramas and
movies, cooking etc. Different News Channels help to up update our
knowledge. 
Online learning:
The most important advantage of online distance education is to earn a
degree from one’s home or work place. We can get knowledge and
information through charts, maps, graphs, moving images, slides, and
video clippings and even audio recordings via Internet. It helps to
understand the entire syllabus without the help of a teacher. The
students are able to interact with their peers through online class
projects-mails and also with the help of online conferencing and chat
makes learning easier and entertaining. The availability of online
libraries with their huge collection of books has also made the learning
process easier and worthwhile

Films:
Films are considered a major mass medium because of their mass
appeal and influence on society. Film is also a source of informal
education We can know about different cultures, and other societies'
norms, values, civilizations, and way of living by films. Film is playing an
important role for learn the different languages. Film deliverers a moral
lesson to the viewers. It depends upon viewers, how that they perceive.
Many historical films tell us the old history of the Nations. In a dramatic
way, films tell us a current situation of the World like terrorism,
corruption, extremism, social evils etc.