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Moreover, universities
such as Harvard now require students to possess personal
computers in order to be accepted into a degree program. Even
the Cal State University system in California is in the process
of developing a similar requirement which would necessitate
that students not only possess computer? but know how to use
them as tools to help further their education.
Students of Higher Education.
Indian students will find it very difficult
to establish a place for themselves es world without the
knowledge of computers. Schools are training people for the
wrong jobs. And the more dramatically the economy changes in
the Information Age, the worse the mismatch will be. What's
needed are methods of learning more efficiently, and with more
relevance to the worki Computer-based multimedia and
telelearning systems are more efficient i
the classroom closer to the real world.
In addition to practical matters such as
preparing students in general for academic study and the
workplace of the future, the virtual classroom is also
beneficial for learners of English in particular. With an
estimated 80-85% of information and the internet appearing in
English, and much of the documentation for computer software
and hardware distributed internationally in English, nonnative
speakers are motivated to learn English if they want
to use these resources.
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