STORY OF EDUSAT
Year: 2009 impression
112pp, 2009 imp.
ISBN: 9788175413107 (HB) · Hardback
ISBN: 9788175413115 (PB) · Paperback
EDUSAT is an important promise in the life of Indian nation. Conceptualized sometime in 2001 or earlier in ISRO, it surfaced in 2002 with the document Educating the Nation: the Need for a Dedicated Satellite, authorship credited to Prof. Mukhopadhyay.
EDUSAT was launched on 20th September, 2004, four months ahead of schedule. The ground network is yet to be ready, and hence utilization of EDUSAT is still an open question. The story is woven around precursors to EDUSAT, concept of EDUSAT, development so far, major issues, and lessons for management.
Author has been involved in designing satellite based education in the National Action Plan even before EDUSAT, and at all stages of development of EDUSAT. There is no better person who can authentically narrate the story of EDUSAT. It needs to be read to understand the complexity of technology, pedagogy, human dynamics and management.
Professor Marmar Mukhopadhyay, an eminent educational thinker, has written extensively in educational management, educational technology, and open and distance education. A few of his important contributions are Total Quality Management in Education, Leadership for Institution Building in Education, Optimizing Human Learning, Yearbooks of Educational Technology, Open Schooling: Selected Experiences, etc.
Preface
Before EDUSAT
Conceptualizing EDUSAT
Developments So Far
Major Issues
Lessons for Management
Appendices
Space for Education: Progress in Partnership
EDUSAT: All You Wanted to Know