MIER College of Education has a unique distinction of establishing a full fledged Centre for Educational Technology which happens to be an emerging area for making teacher education an effective tool for educational transformation. This cell is devoted to planning, development and utilization of various systems of Educational Technology in the areas of teaching, learning, evaluation and feedback, testing and research.

Manned by highly trained staff, the educational technology cell is enriched with all types of resources like Computer Hardware and Software, Televisions, LCD Projector, OHP, Digital Cameras, and Audio Devices etc. The computer software is specially addressed to content material, instructional programmes, Computer Assisted Instructions, Computer Based Teaching, audio and video lectures, movies, cable telecast, live programmes and other related software which are utilized to enrich teaching and learning. The institution has also started an ambitious Electronic Classroom Project for school students through which teacher trainees learn to utilize latest technological interventions effectively for classroom teaching. A satellite downlink facility is being provided for receiving the EDUSAT programme for the institution.

Smart Class Project Makes Headway

In an effort to encourage the use of modern information and communication technologies for teacher preparation in the MIER College of Education, lecture rooms in the College building were converted into 'Smart Classes’ to enable teacher trainees to use ICT in their day to day training schedule. For this purpose, 29” colour televisions were installed and technical support by way of hardware and software were provided to enable outputs from audio, video, cable, internet and computer to be received as per requirement of the teacher and students in the classroom situation. In some classrooms, facilities were provided for LCD projection systems. The entire task was supervised by a team of specialists comprising Dr. Adit Gupta and Mr. Mool Raj Sharma. A rich repository of educational and video content was created in a central server for which an MOU was signed with M/s Educomp Solutions. The smart class project has enabled the teacher educators to make classroom teaching learning process livelier. Both the faculty members and the students have been oriented to make use of the new technology in the practice of teaching and in content creation. The use of ICT in the College has already been identified by the NAAC as one of the thrust areas and has been appreciated at the national level.