NEP 2020 & Multimedia Supported Teacher Education Program

Abstract

Teacher education is an amalgamation of teaching skills, diverse learning styles, curriculum, teachers, educators, students, and infrastructure. Information and Communication Technologies, which have taken a central role in the past few decades, can contribute towards enhancing teaching abilities and learning quality in teacher education. National Education Policy, 2020 has a special focus on multimedia support in teacher education. The paper discusses the new trends in Teacher Education with the implementation of multimedia with a few recommendations regarding NEP-2020. Utilizing Multimedia applications in educational settings, however challenging it may be, can accelerate the learning outcomes as it provides proactive learning techniques with an all-inclusive environment. It provides varied opportunities and methods to boost the process of gaining knowledge in a holistic manner. Hence, this paper focuses on integration of multimedia in teacher education. This paper makes the strong claim that for multimedia to have any significant effect on education, the educational multimedia applications must be designed by the teachers of those classes. The paper begins with an introduction discusses what is a multimedia and a multimedia authoring tools and describes some typical areas of multimedia application development. Finally the paper ends with the action plan and concludes that we must need as an educator to create our own multimedia applications if we really want to make use of the multimedia applications as an effective tool in education to initiate the NEP 2020.