Academic Papers

 WhatsApp is an important platform or mobile app for connecting with friends, family and co-workers in various fields including the field of education. The use of WhatsApp on mobile has led to the formation of small, cohesive groups and thereby it has become a social media connectivity tool for fellow workers. The precursor of WhatsApp i.e. SMS used only text messages for communication, but now smart-phone technology features added to internet connection have extended the scope and horizon of the use of mobile. The text, PDF, picture, audio, video, animation etc. are some of the different media (multiple media) which can be shared using this platform. The basic advantage for indigenous users in India is that text and content of communication of ideas could be English or/as well as local vernacular languages. Thus, a group of people working in different localities with similar backgrounds could be brought together on one platform as a virtually connected society and share common tho...

The International conference on Life long learning was  organized by Directorate of Distance Education  and Department of  Education &  Training MANUU, Hyderabad in collaboration with All India Association of Educational Research (AIAER) from 25 th March to 27 th March 2017. Maulana Azad National Urdu University (MANUU) is a Central University established at National Level in 1998 by an act of Parliament to promote and develop the Urdu language and to impart vocational and technical Education in Urdu medium through conventional and distance modes. The All India Association for Educational Research (AIAER) addresses itself to the problems of research in education in general but more attention is given to such problems from Indian perspective.  The Vice Chancellor and the Pro-Vice Chancellor, MANUU were the Chief Patron and Patron of the Conference respectively. The Core Committee of the conference consisted of senior professors from Directorate of Distan...

Report of National Seminar on 'Urdu Language and Modern Technology - Issues and Prospects' by Dr. Aziz Sohail is available on, Blog Etemaad Daily

Gone are the days when teachers were teaching using chalk and talk method. Most of the teacher educators like us use to record in our observation diary that the student-teachers i.e. would be teachers in teacher education programmes make use of Daily Using Teaching Aids (DUTA). By this we meant that the student teachers were practicing their lessons using Chalk, Duster, Blackboard; and followed ‘Lecture Method’ for teaching and the primary source behind lesson preparation was generally textbook prescribed by the state board. Thus, teacher’s innovation was limited to ways of expression restricting to tone, gestures, drawing skills on the board with different colour chalk pieces and a rolling blackboard containing few assignment activities. If a teacher was not good at handwriting and/or drawing then a shabby picture was projected in front of the students that demoralised practicing teacher. Some of the creative and artistic teachers used to bring well prepared charts and models relev...

فضل تابشؔ صاحب نے بستی کا تصور کچھ اس طرح پیش کیا ہے، جو غالباً حیدرآباد شہر کے تصور کو بھی ظاہر کرتا ہے۔ میرے چاروں اور مکانوں سے آتی آوازیں  سڑکوں پر لہراتی ان گنت موٹر کاریں اسکولوں سے چھنتی زندہ ہنستی بھن بھن  لیمپ پوسٹ سے بہتی جگمگ دھارا  ہنستے لوگوں سے بھرپور دوکانیں سڑکیں  اخباروں میں چھپنے والی اونچے انسانوں کی باتیں حیدرآبادملک کے چندخوبصورت شہروں میں گناجانے والاشہر،آبادی کی کثرت سے جانا جانے والا علاقہ، اپنی تعمیرات کے لیے بھی مشہورہے۔ اس کے علاوہ بھی کئی اہم چیزوں کے لئے یہ شہرمقبولِ عام ہے۔اسکی زبان،تہذیب جس کی عکاسی کرنے میں موجودہ حکومت اور بطور خاص وزیراعلیٰ تلنگانہ اپنافخرسمجھتے ہیں۔ جہاں چار مینار کے دامن میں لاڈ بازار چوڑیوں کے لئے عالمی سطح پر شہرت رکھتا ہے، وہیں یہاں کی بولی بھی اپنے آپ میں دلکش ہے،جوکہ بالی ووڈ کی فلموں کی چاشنی بڑھانے کے لیے بھی استعمال ہوتی ہے۔ ایک طرف تو یہ فلم انڈسٹری، کیمیائی انڈسٹری کاشہرہے اور ساتھ ہی 11 سے زائد مرکزی و ریاستی یونیورسٹیوں سمیت کئی ہم اداروں کو اپنے اندر سموئے ہوئے ہیں،تودوسری جانب یہ ترقی یافتہ آئی ٹی...