Academic Papers

Man is a social animal, and the important characteristic of society is being together and communicating with each other for all day-to-day requirements. This communication takes place in one’s own language within a particular geographical location, but for this, the individual needs to know other’s language too. Thus, the individual needs to formulate his ideas in mind, create sentences in his own language and translate them into the host language for interaction. Present-day society mainly depends on spoken and written words rather than gestures and movements alone, and there also appears a need for transliteration of written material from one form to another. Thus, communication is completed only when the ideas of one group are shared with others using different media in a common format. It is an interesting view to look at our country and beyond from the perspective of language usage and the need for communication. India is a diverse country with 22 official languages, and many spo...

 Kothari Commission (1964-66) is of the opinion that the destiny of India is being shaped by the four walls of the classroom. The inference of the report indicates four walls of the classroom where the child is being taught is a class in their mother tongue. Sixteen percent of Indians are Muslims and Urdu is the major language spoken by this community which forms just above 5% of the total Indian population (census 2001). This population is spread across the nation and not concentrated in any specific geographical location. Hence, this language does not enjoy the real official status of any of the states except the states of Jammu and Kashmir where it is the first official language. The other state and national governments are not spending much on the education of speakers of this language. However, slight improvement has occurred in the plight of Urdu speakers as few states are in the direction of adopting it as the state’s official language. The states of Delhi and Telangana have...

 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...