A study of attitude of Urdu Medium Teachers towards CAI programmes in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh

All aspects of human life are witnessing the impact of computers. Computers are being used in education since 1960 and the advent of micro-computers in the 1970s increased their usage in education. There are different uses of computers in education for teaching, learning, data storage, administration, research, and evaluation, etc. The use of computers in teaching has a lot of potential in the form use of computer-assisted instruction in schools. 

The need and significance of the study are evident from the following. It is a common observation that Urdu medium schools are ill-equipped as far as the academic and infrastructural facilities are concerned. The lack of qualified teachers and further lack of latest technologies and training of teachers in the use of the latest developments affect directly and indirectly the student community. Hence, there is a need to fill this vacuum and the initiative can be taken up in the form of the use of computer-assisted instruction. Some teachers feel that the use of computers is interference, and impediment in their work, and computers try to replace classroom teachers but this is actually not so. The CAI programmes are just a supplementary effort and hence, teachers' attitude has to be known.