ABSTRACT
Education is a social context oriented commotion and eminence education has conventionally been allied among educators having soaring degrees of individual contact with apprentices. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) role in education is becoming more and more imperative, as the world is poignant promptly into digital media and information and this significance will carry on to nurture and enlarge in the 21st century. This chapter endeavors to emphasize the escalating role of ICT in higher education for Asian countries, namely, India, China, Japan, and South Korea. This chapter highlights the diverse impacts of ICT on higher education and investigates prospective developments and the role of ICT in transform education. It also seeks out to investigate how future expansion by ICT in converting education will impact on those manner programs which will be accessible and conveyed in the universities as well as in colleges of future. The chapter also recommends that besides for educational development of any nation, ICT in higher education is also a way of socioeconomic development for that nation.
