Swadhayaya

AKSHAYA     PROJECT   In India, the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) revolution is far reaching and has high visibility. It's use has contributed to phenomenal growth in such areas as e- literacy, e-governance, e-commerce and e-transaction. The anticipated benefits of any ICT for development projects such as Akshaya include e-literacy, knowledge dissemination, poverty reduction, community and women's empowerment, transparency in business and other transactions increased productivity and better healthcare practices.                   Akshaya has been a high profile project of the State government of Kerala, in the southernmost state of India which has been hailed as one that has, achieved phenomenally high levels of 'gender development' compared to other states of India, in terms of all the standard indicators of education and health.               Akshaya project is an ICT for development project launched in 2002 jointly by the Kerala State IT mission and

OBSERVATION METHOD OF EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY Educational Psychology is the scientific study of human behaviour of the learner in relation to educational setting. To study the behaviour of the learner, there are different approaches or methods used. The methods are broadly categorized as methods of observation and methods of exposition.         To study the human behaviour, the observation method is a very popular one. It is a method of measurement without instruments or looking outside oneself. In the words of Goods, "observation deals with the overt behaviour of persons in appropriate situations". Through this method, the individual's behaviour is observed by somebody other than the person himself and make certain generalisations about human behaviour. The outer manifestations or external behaviour or overt behaviour of the individual is observed objectively by this method, so that it gives indirectly clue to the understanding of the mental conditions of the individual.