The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

M.Phill EDUCATION
SEMESTER-ONE 2nd Assignment FALL 2011 COMMUNICATION SKILLS Course Code EDU-31003

The Islamia University of Bahawalpur

Institute of Distance Education

Prepared By: Rashid Zia Haider Course coordinator:

Ms.Shaista Rashid

Question
Discuss problems while communicating? Also discuss the following question? What is communication? What has made the world global village ?What are the advantages and dis advantages of living in the global village ? What does the global village concept mean in communication ? Answer Introduction

Definition of communication
Communication is the activity of conveying information. Communication has been derived from the Latin word "communis", meaning to share. Communication requires a sender, a message, and an intended recipient, although the receiver need not be present or aware of the sender's intent to communicate at the time of communication; thus communication can occur across vast distances in time and space. Communication requires that the communicating parties share an area of communicative commonality. The communication process is complete once the receiver has understood the message of the sender. Feedback is critical to effective communication between parties.

Problems While Communicating

It's often seen that employees face problems while communicating with customers and colleagues. Some, of the common problems observed relate to areas like presentation skills, teleetiquettes, writing of emails, pronunciation, grammar, listening, etc. While a poor presentation can make negative impression on the customers, grammatical errors can create serious issues with the message content. Likewise each of the problem area mentioned above can adversely impact a smooth flow of communication with customers and hence may adversely impact business. To ensure that our highly skilled manpower is able to effectively communicate with customers and colleagues, it is important that they are given training on the abovementioned areas. A scientifically designed programme that's tailored around the special needs of professionals can help fulfill the requirement. LIQVID has developed a technology-based programme called "EnglishEdge" that focuses on helping learners communicate effectively with the global audience. The programme is powered by learning software called EnglishEdge, that's developed in association with BBC Active. BBC has high recognition as a valued, trusted and authoritative brand worldwide and it has long had a

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Program Features:

Highly interactive - programme provides a rich interactive experience that incorporates many audio-visual elements. The innovative use of multi-media makes learning not only effective but also enjoyable. Self Paced Learning - programme allows the student to take control of his own learning. The software component allows the student to work at his own pace. Every topic includes a short assessment activity that gives instant feedback to the learner. Self-Assessment - programme is powered with several self-evaluation tools. The feature of Listen-record-compare provides a unique opportunity to learners for self-evaluation. Using headphones and the EnglishEdge software on a PC they can perfect their pronunciation by practicing on interesting pronunciation exercises. Additionally the programme includes a performance report engine that allows each student to track his or her own progress through the course and generate dynamic personalized performance reports as needed. Teachers can also use performance reports to monitor the progress of their class. Methodology - programme follows the powerful blended methodology, where learner gets the benefits of Instructor Led Teaching as well as Computer Based Teaching. The state of the art learning environment that is powered with rich multi-media training elements enhances the learning process. The rich multimedia learning experience uses a mixture of audio and video clips. This makes learning not only exciting but also catapults effectiveness. That's not all, the multimedia component also lets a student analyze self-progress and helps students rate themselves constantly, providing valuable feedback. The student machine ratio is 1:1 with a high focus on self-paced learning. Evaluation - programme is powered with several self-evaluation tools. The feature of Listenrecord-compare provides a unique opportunity to learners for self-evaluation. Using head phones and the EnglishEdge software on a PC, they can perfect their pronunciation by practicing on interesting pronunciation exercises. Additionally the programme includes a performance report engine that allows each student to track his or her own progress through the course and gets dynamic personalized performance reports as needed. Teachers can also use performance reports to monitor the progress of their class.

What has made the world a Global Village?

A village is a very small town where all the people either know each other or know about each other and can go see each other in a matter of minutes. The internet has made the entire world of internet users into a sort of village. The internet makes it possible to talk to and understand people who live far away from us. We can do this almost instantaneously, whereas it used to take days of travel or mail to contact a person on the other side of the world. Because it has
shrunk into a village.

The world is our common house. We all are the members of the families living in this world. The

act or happening of one room in a house affects the other room. In the same way the incidents in one part of the world affects the other part of the world. in fact some of the incidents affects the whole world whereas some of them are long lasting in the same environment such as the atom bomb little boy & fat man dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki of china still has its affect in that environment. Today in this twenty first century, only due to the advanced technology and science & development of in fractures, the world has become very small. we can contact to our relatives just by sitting at one place though they are very far from us either in USA or China etc. we can also reach at any place of the world in very short period of time with the help of advanced transportation. we can even know and watch the news and condition of any place of the world just by sitting at a place with the help of advanced means of communication cuch as radio, television, internet etc. these several advanced technologies has made this world smaller. Thus we can say that the world has become a global village.

Advantages of living in a Global Village

The world has become very small, like a global village, by the many inventions of transportation and communication. We can now fly to any place on the earth and reach the most remote area in hours in a helicopter. Via satellites we can survey what is taking place at any place on earth. On Google Earth we can see so many details of buildings and streets far away from where we live. Through this service on the Internet we may fly anywhere on earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. Via mobile phones we can talk with people around the globe and via Internet we can be part of many communities while we are still far away from each other geographically. I am amazed to be part of this development that has taken place in my life time. In my childhood television, mobile phones and the Internet did not exist. When we had been married for ten years we applied to have an ordinary telephone installed in our house only to discover that there was a three year long waiting list! At the moment Solving and I are in India visiting friends. At the same time we keep touch with our children and grandchildren in Norway as well as many of our friends scattered around the globe through Internet, MSN Messenger and Skype. Among others I have spoken with Noralv in the Philippines and Per Arne in Norway. I have had text message on my mobile phone and emails through the Wi-Fi connection at the hotel where I am staying at the moment. I have been blogging through Type pad for several years and have had comments from people all around the world. I have got many new friends through my blogging activities and learned a lot from other bloggers. Recently I joined Face book and another world opened up to me making the world smaller and the global village more real. For a long time I resisted joining Face book thinking it was sufficient for me to stick to my blogging activity. The last few days I realized that I really live in a global village. When sixteen year old Andreas had a heart failure on a mountain trip with his school class I had several text messages on my mobile phone urging us to pray for his recovery. It was very sad that his life could not be saved and I got that sad news through a phone call. Then I have been able to interact with a lot of friends on Face book as well as joining groups in memory of him. (Minnegruppe for Andreas) (For alle som srger over Andreas Salvesen)

I thank God for all these new inventions enabling us to experience community and foster friendship around the globe. I believe they have all been invented to advance the Kingdom of God. May we make well use of them for that purpose?

Some disadvantages of living in a global village

Unemployment - While information technology may have streamlined the business process it has also crated job redundancies, downsizing and outsourcing. This means that a lot of lower and middle level jobs have been done away with causing more people to become unemployed. Privacy - Though information technology may have made communication quicker, easier and more convenient, it has also bought along privacy issues. From cell phone signal interceptions to email hacking, people are now worried about their once private information becoming public knowledge. Lack of job security - Industry experts believe that the internet has made job security a big issue as since technology keeps on changing with each day. This means that one has to be in a constant learning mode, if he or she wishes for their job to be secure. Dominant culture - While information technology may have made the world a global village, it has also contributed to one culture dominating another weaker one. For example it is now argued that US influences how most young teenagers all over the world now act, dress and behave. Languages too have become overshadowed, with English becoming the primary mode of communication for business and everything else.

What does the global village concept mean in communication:

A Global Village is simply and basically the synergetic relationship between a local learning center with access to global knowledge (Telecenter, Hub, Library, ...) on one side with a local living environment in which this knowledge can be applied, tested, enhanced on the other side. Together they form a local habitat with a global support system A Global Village needs to be resourceful in access to the world of information and culture, as well as it needs to be resourceful in access to local resources, material energetical cycles, inhabitants, processes, biotopes etc. The purpose of a Global Village is to provide a high quality, healthy, satisfactory, secure and sustainable lifestyle to its inhabitants and improve and densify the local life process.

Underlying assumptions of a Global Villages

1. We think that the biggest requirement of our time is to rebalance our lifestyle with the planet we are living with; in particular this means a physical transformation from a world of large industrial and administrative centers to a cellular-fractal world of highly sophisticated villages.

2. We do not want to lose the achievements of science and technology, of culture and art; rather we want to manifest them in physical spaces that represent more and more perfect encounters of the cultural and the underlying natural. By going deeper into the nature of things we have discovered that nature is nothing that we can just leave behind us, but in itself an incredibly complex technological system, a web of life that transcends many of our highest technological and artistic abilities in ingenuity, sustainability, perfection and usefulness. The village is an environment in which these two layers - nature and culture - can coexist and influence each other in the best possible way. Aligning ourselves with nature is the best and most productive way we can overcome boundaries; it is not the boundaries of nature that are hindering us but our limited understanding of nature and its creativity. Whilst the dominating monetary economies have led to narrow-scaled costly battles for shrinking buying power in the short-term cyclical consumption game and abandoned and exploited everything which could be made productive in the long run, Global Villages are directly linked to the constant long-term regeneration of natural environments. Permaculture has proven hat humans can largely enhance and support natural systems instead of distorting or destroying them, an activity which results in the creation of really sustainable abundance. 3. By the very same means the village is also the perfect environment to represent our diverse cultural designs; it allows people to live and breathe locally alongside shared values, whilst not hindering other people in other villages in realizing theirs. An unprecedented culture of reconciliation and coesistence between formerly hostile cultures can result out of this, but also a positive competition of entirely different solutions to common problems. Moving out of each others way will not require heavy migration, just maybe a little relocation. Many cities have successfully drawn their strength from this pattern, as Christopher Alexander describes in "a network of subcultures". A global village is a place where we influence our surroundings by applying an unlimited mind. It therefore shows the qualities of an unlimited mind.

Starting a science of Global Villages

The object of a Global Villages research endeavor is a specific form in which we will organize life and work tomorrow, empowered by global communication, new technologies and shared knowledge, centered around values as:

The natural rather than the artificial: the connection between humans and landscape, the cultivation and care of a ground that embodies human and cultural values as much as it preserves the integrity of vital biosystems through the stewardship of man. ("cultured landscape") Informal rather than formal: Conviviality within a smaller community which we nowadays can choose and leave freely. Independent thinking might be a core value. "Big systems demand order, they have to rely on the thourough execution of a lot of intertwined rules. The inspired, the ones who

have fantasy and creativity and talents tend to break these rules, that is simply part of their nature" (Frithjof Bergmann)

Cooperation rather than competition: a global cooperative economy and culture connecting those communities ("open source economy") We think that nowadays smaller communities benefit enormously from empowering and enabling global networks. ("empowered village"). We think that it is mainly this power of global associations of villages (aka association of regions) which can and will reverse the current trend towards the city and introduce this new synthesis between urban and rural.

Another way to say this...

"Simply, the idea of a Planetary Village is a set of expectancies many of us share about the future of our changing culture. We expect that humanity will learn to live in ecological balance with the rest of nature. We expect that our way of life will be sustainable - not dependent on non-renewable resources. We expect all of humanity will become aware of its interdependency and will learn to cooperate globally. We expect that human consciousness will deepen and become more perceptive, loving and wise - become more spiritually sensitive. The vision of the Planetary Village imagines all of these qualities pervading a community with the scale and dynamics of a traditional village.

Bibliography
Self effort; I used my own previous knowledge to prepare this report; And also the book provided by Islamia University Bahawalpur Internet, Google search engine was also consulted to prepare this assignment