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Educational Technology


Educational technology (also called learning technology)
 

Educational Technology


By jazzjj at 2010-09-04 00:45:52
The history of education according to Dieter Lenzen, president of the Freie Universität Berlin 1994, "began either millions of years ago or at the end of 1770". Education as a science cannot be separated from the educational traditions that existed before. Adults trained the young of their society in the knowledge and skills they would need to master and eventually pass on. The evolution of culture, and human beings as a species depended on this practice of transmitting knowledge.

Educational technology (also called learning technology) is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.

Consider the Handbook of Human Performance Technology.The word technology for the sister fields of Educational and Human Performance Technology means "applied science." In other words, any valid and reliable process or procedure that is derived from basic research using the "scientific method" is considered a "technology." Educational or Human Performance Technology may be based purely on algorithmic or heuristic processes, but neither necessarily implies physical technology.

UBC is an internationally-recognized leader in distributed learning, and its reputation attracts accomplished students from around the world. UBC Faculty work on the leading edge of curriculum design and technology integration; each of the courses has been developed using an innovative, constructivist pedagogy. One of the MET course authors received the BC Innovation Award for her work in Educational Technology.

Educational Technology Magazine is the world's leading periodical publication covering the entire field of educational technology, an area pioneered by the magazine's editors in the early 1960s. Read by leaders in more than one hundred countries, the magazine has been at the forefront of every important new trend in the development of the field throughout the past five decades. Its list of published authors is a virtual "who's who" of the leading personalities and authorities from all over the world active in educational technology research, development, and application.

Its stimulating, provocative, challenging articles are eagerly awaited by its loyal readership.As part of outreach from my work on the National Information Infrastructure Advisory Council, I have often been invited to work internationally sharing the ideas on the use of technology, and to explore and demonstrate global ideas. But working internationally is very different.

It is rewarding to share the exploration, excitement, evaluation, and engagement of ideas in the use of technology using many different methodologies. I call it connecting the dots.

In some countries, radio and television are at this time the most important systems of delivery. But with convergence, it is important to keep eyes on all parts of the use of technology, even if just for understanding the possibilities.

Even in nations where technology is mostly in the form of television, the Internet is a database for knowledge. In nations where radio is the primary means of delivery, there are ways of using the Internet to boost its value. Often the most important thing one can do is to help frame the ideas, and then listen.

Education in the largest sense is any act or experience that has a formative effect on the mind, character or physical ability of an individual. In its technical sense, education is the process by which society deliberately transmits its accumulated knowledge, skills and values from one generation to another.

Etymologically, the word education is derived from educare (Latin) "bring up", which is related to educere "bring out", "bring forth what is within", "bring out potential" and ducere, "to lead".

Read about Education Tech read also about Education Technology and Education




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