GASPRO International Journal of Eminent Scholars

ABSTRACT

Educational software has a lot of advantages in the educational sector and mostly for students. Some of the functions include tracking and reporting on the learner’s progress through online education software. This enables offering more personalized content based on the experience and achievements of a particular student. It also helps you improve the course or program content to make it more suitable for the needs and expertise level of most students. The study is to analyse the effect of educational software on the communication model in secondary school. The study contains three concepts, which are the concept of education; the concept of educational software; and the concept of communication model. The concept of education is one of the concepts that does not have an actual befitting definition. Different points of view of what education could mean are inclusive in the study. The study further identifies the types of communication models, which are basically three: the linear model of communication, the interactive model of communication, and the transaction model of communication. The linear model has only one person as a source of information (sender) and the other as the recipient of the information (receiver). The interactive model is distinguished by its two-way nature: in the mode of communication, both parties act as sender and receiver. In the transaction model, unlike other models, both parties are known as communicators. The types of educational software and their respective uses are stated in the study. Finally, the impact of educational software in the communication model process in teaching. From the study, it is concluded that educational software has a great advantage in the communication model used in teaching. The educational software increases students' attention in learning processes, reducing the disadvantages of the communication model by eliminating the most serious threat to the communication process, noise. It was further recommended that the use of educational software should be further implemented in the communication model of teaching, especially in primary and secondary schools.

KEYWORDS: Educational Software, Communication models process, Secondary School, Students and Imo State.