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Educational Technology

Notes 9. Innovative teaching methods and new teaching techniques are emerging as a result of progress in
educational technology.
10. It is possible to make necessary modification in teaching environment in order to fulfil the teaching

goals.
11. Educational technology is helpful in making tools in accordance to teaching, economic, society and
technical needs.

On the basis of above definitions and characters, it is clear that educational technology is a very

descriptive word. It refers to the use of scientific methods for its working after organizing the
entire teaching process. In the words of Dr Anand (1996), it includes a way which can be helpful
in improving learning and teaching processes. Educational technology is related to almost all the
process of teaching, learning, instruction and training such as determination of instructional
objectives, planning of teaching related environment, preparation of learning and teaching materials,
selecting the learning methods and techniques for teaching and to feedback the teaching and learning
processes etc.
There was a time when educational technology was understood to mean only the audio-visual teaching
tools. Today, educational technology has a very broad concept. Now the concept of educational
technology is being used for such methods, techniques, compositions and mechanical equipment which
can be used to improve the effectiveness of learning and teaching. Educational technology is called as
a systematic and scientific endeavour in order to schedule, organize, forward and to control the effects

technical and educational processes.
On the basis of above discussion the writer has defined educational technology as—“Educational

technology is a subject based on science, its objective is to make teachers, education and the student’s
task continuously simple. Together these three parts are well-adjusted so that they are competent
and capable to attain their objectives through systematic approaches. Input, Output and Process—all
three aspects should be taken into account.”
(Kulshrestha, S.P.,1980)

Self-Assessment

1. Fill in the Blanks—
(i) “Education” is derived from ....................
(ii) Education is derived from the Latin word ....................
(iii) Education technology is based on ....................
(iv) Education technology is a continuous .................... method.

(v) .................... Defines the fundamental behaviour of a child.

1.4 Assumptions of Educational Technology

Educational technology is based on following assumptions—

(1) Every human works like machines. Therefore, in education scientific principles can be successfully

used to scrape and finish this human behaviour.
(2) Education is both the art and science. Therefore, education can be analysed and can be divided
into small learning facts, elements and ingredients. Then training, instructing and learning these
facts, elements and ingredients is possible. Therefore, Education technology is based on systematic
approaches.

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