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Role of Edusat It'S Functions in Education

GSAT-3, also known as EDUSAT, was India's first dedicated educational satellite. It provided two-way satellite connections for classrooms across India, delivering educational content from elementary to higher education levels. EDUSAT encompassed India's entire geographic territory and could deliver interactive and low-cost education through more powerful spot beams that allowed signals to be received with smaller satellite dishes.

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Role of Edusat It'S Functions in Education

GSAT-3, also known as EDUSAT, was India's first dedicated educational satellite. It provided two-way satellite connections for classrooms across India, delivering educational content from elementary to higher education levels. EDUSAT encompassed India's entire geographic territory and could deliver interactive and low-cost education through more powerful spot beams that allowed signals to be received with smaller satellite dishes.

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GSAT-3, also known as EDUSAT, is designed for distance learning from

elementary school to higher education. This was the country’s first specialized
“Educational Satellite,” which provided the country with satellite-based two-
way connections to classrooms for the delivery of educational content.

Functions of EDUSAT

o It encompasses the entire geographical territory of the country.


o It can deliver interactive and low-cost education.
o It can provide information consistency.
o The EDUSAT spot beams are more strong, and signals can be received
with a smaller satellite dish.
o It is an entirely dedicated satellite to the cause of education.
o Virtual classrooms are beneficial in remote and rural schools. The
teacher on the transmission end becomes virtually available to all virtual
classrooms on the receiving end. This technique can aid in solving a
teacher shortage if in-service training is provided to existing teachers in
the most cost-effective manner.
o It can offer audiovisual media as well as interactive multimedia.

ROLE OF EDUSAT IT’S FUNCTIONS IN


EDUCATION
EDUSAT was India’s first full fledged educational satellite.
It’s first operational flight took place on 20th September 2004
from the Satish Dhawan space centre Srihari kottah. After a
17 minutes flight, the satellite weighing 1950 kg was
successfully placed in a geo-transfer orbit at a height of 180
km above the earth. It is manipulated by the satellite centre of
the ISRO at Bangalore. The projected life of the EDUSAT is
7 to 10 years and it can cover whole geographical India.
EDUSAT is mainly indented to meet the demand for an
interactive, satellite based distance education system for the
country. It is collaborative project of the MHRD, IGNOU and
the ISRO.
EDUSAT can cover the whole geographical India with it’s
five sport beams covering the northern, north eastern,
southern and western region of the country. The sport beams
(in Ku-band frequency) used in the EDUSAT are more
powerful than that of the INSAT -3B. As a result, it’s signals
can the received with a smaller satellite dish and consequently
the reception terminal is cheaper.
The EDUSAT is specially configured for an audio visual
medium, employing a digital interactive class room and
multimedia multi-centric system. It is primarily meet for
providing connectivity to the school, college and higher levels
of education and also to support non formal education,
including developmental communication 
 FUNCTIONS 
1) It covers all geographical area inside the country
  

2) It can provide interactive and cost effective education.


  

3) It can provide consistency to information.


  

4) The spot beams used in the EDUSAT are more powerful and
  

signals can be received with a smaller satellite dish.


5) It is a satellite fully dedicated to the cause of education.
  

6) It is useful to implement virtual class room in remote and


  

rural schools. The teacher at the transmission end virtually


becomes available to all the virtual classrooms at the
receiving end. This process can help in overcoming shortage
of trained teachers if in service training is giving to the
existing teachers in the most economical way.
7) It can provide audiovisual medium and interactive multimedia
  

facility.
8) It can open up many possibilities like online teachings, video
  

conferencing etc.
9) It can be used at all levels of education, from primary schools
  

to professional courses.
10)  It can provide live lecture session from the best and
                    

expert teachers.
11)  It can facilitate provision of equality in educational
                    

opportunity. Before establishing the EDUSAT quality classes


and classes handled by experts benefited only urban students.
But with the working of the EDUSAT ruler students also can
enjoy it’s benefit.
12)   EDUSAT has enhanced distance education in the
                    

country, especially in medical, technical and higher education


streams. The project will be run by the ISRO and IGNOU, the
former providing the technical infrastructure and the latter
developing courses and training teachers.
13)  Students will get the facility to see what they read in
                    

there textbooks and to do experiments with the help of


multimedia technologies.

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