The significant progress in the AV technology (Audio Visual technology) has brought revolution in the education. The time of educators using the traditional blackboards with chalk for writing and displaying notice with noticeboards is becoming outdated. The vital aspect in a learning process is the quality of the instructions delivered by the educators to the students. Educators are deploying AV Products (Audio Visual Products) to improve the quality of the instructions. There has also been growing trend across the globe in the use of AV Products to enhance whole class teaching and learning. There is considerable research evidence that students are more engaged, show increased interest and are highly motivated when their learning is integrated by AV Products. Teaching with AV Products has become essential thing for an educator in the technological age. A lot of difficult subject matter can be taught better and in more detail with audio visual modern teaching aids. AV Products incorporate audio-visual techniques that results in increasing the interest and memory of students. An educator must utilize the AV Products successfully to create the best platform for learning and teaching. Every school, college and university across globe is implementing AV Products into their classroom. AV Products opens up a world of opportunities for teachers to be innovative in their teaching and in student learning. It is very important that educators should be well trained to utilize the new opportunities provided by AV Products to them. Some of AV Products are Interactive Whiteboards, Visualiser, response systems, digital signage system, projectors, education software, classroom management software, and mind mapping software.
Today, Interactive Whiteboards have become an integral part of learning environment and is replacing traditional whiteboards. An educator writes with finger or pen on interactive whiteboard. Teachers are using AV Products based educational content with audio and video into their lessons. An audio visual content gives the learners a better learning environment as they can visually watch the actual phenomena and processes. Teachers can write on their content with Interactive Whiteboards and save it in computer files that can’t be done through traditional boards. Visualiser is a kind of camera that can display document , 2D or 3D teaching samples on display devices like projection screen, plasma screens etc providing detailed view.Even the calm and isolated student can respond spontaneously to teacher question using AV Products based student response systems. Teacher can do formative and summative assessment of student. Best Projector is a popular AV Products device used in the schools, colleges and the universities for projecting the information stored in computer as a large image on projection screen or on the wall such as multimedia, power point files, animation, motion video and other computer contents.
The learning system is getting high gains by implementing AV Products.
An important thing while implementing the AV Products is to select right Kind of teaching aids. Time has come to introduce AV Products into the classroom for effective learning and teaching.
