Web–Based Education in Schools : A Paradigm shift in India

“Education is an important indicator of social deve lopment”. Technological change permits new activities and mak es new activities superior in many important ways over the previous method of operation and creates long asting innovations in society. Web-based teaching and learning is rapidly emerging as a predominant paradigm in the delivery of education in society. Internet is the ocean of knowledge. This ocean can be made available to all students as early as possi ble in their life. So Information Technology & related tools can be introduced in sch ool education by using World Wide Web as education delivery medium. The WWW is used to provide information with great prosp ect and extend learning outside space and time boun daries. The remarkable developments in IT and networking have opened the d oors of education. In the era of IT e-learning can be efficiently used for different types of education. Most of the populatio n f India is in the rural areas where literacy rat e is poor due to the lack of educational facilities. This paper discusses the pr esent scenario of education in India, the key relat ed to Web based education / learning has potential to meet the perceived need f or flexible pace, place & face.