AUDIO VISUAL AIDS Purposes

Improve and make teaching effective. Enable the audience to look, listen and learn. Make learning interesting and profitable. Quicken the phase of learning. Economise teachers effort. Foster / develop the knowledge.

Add variety and newness to the lesson, . Overcome possible hurdles during the act of teaching. Bring expected behavioral change among the learners. Stimulate curiosity. Provide concrete experience or direct contact with reality or serves as a source of information and life likeness in the teaching learning situation.

Provide a basis for more effective perceptual and conceptual learning. The student acquires clear, accurate and vivid image during the process of learning. Increase and sustain attention and concentration. Make personal involvement of the student in active learning and meet individual needs of the learners. Increase the meaningfulness of abstract concepts by stimulating correct thinking.

It can serve as an open window through which the student can view the world and its phenomena by bringing remote events into the classroom. Provide an opportunity for situational type of learning, e.g. field trips. Provision of active participation of the students

Facilitate and advance the process of applying what is learned to realistic performance and to the life situation. Facilitate freedom among learners, increases retention as they stimulate response of whole organization to the situation in which learning takes place. They direct, dramatize the experiences. Add interest and vitality to any training situation.

They enable the students to learn faster, remember for longer duration, gain more accurate information, understand the concepts with adequate meaning. Thus learning becomes more meaningful, enjoyable and effective. They give variety to classroom techniques, provides change in the atmosphere of the classroom, and allow some freedom from the formal instruction or traditional type. Spread of education as a mass scale-it will provide opportunity for promoting adult education.

Promote scientific temper as students observe demonstrations and scientific phenomena. Develop higher faculties among the student and it promote memorization, stir imagination, thinking process and reasoning power, call for creativity, and inventiveness and reinforce the learners. Positive transfer of learning and training and positive environment for creative discipline.

The students will get opportunity to handle, touch, feel, operate, manipulate, the audiovisual aid. It gives added appeal because it satisfies temporarily at least the natural desire for mastery and ownership. Audio-visual aids educate children for life, promotes international understanding. Increase the concreteness, clarity, effectiveness of the ideas and skills being transferred. Stimulate thinking and motivate action.

Save time and energy. Change attitude or point of view of learners. Stimulate self-activity on the part of the learner by which it offers reality of experience. Develop continuity of thought.