Illustrated Handbook of Education Technology

Educational technology is considered to be an important discipline in the field of education. Educational Technology (ET) is the well-organized establishment of any learning system adapting or adopting methods, processes, and products to serve identified educational goals. This includes systematic identification of the goals of education, recognition of the diversity of learners’ needs, the contexts in which learning will take place, and the range of provisions needed for each of these.

This Illustrated Handbook of Education Technology aims to evaluate key technological trends in education, and explore the benefits of their use, as well as some of the considerations institutions need to make before their implementation.

Educational technology makes teaching and learning more scientific by adopting system approach. Teaching and learning tend to be more scientific and thereby achieve classroom efficiency and effectiveness. The utilization of educational technology such as radio, instructional television and newspapers in the teaching and learning provides equal opportunities for learners. A lot of people who are physically separated are given the opportunity of enriching their knowledge irrespective of their socio-economic status. Educational technology brings about immediacy in learning as students learn on the spot by adopting the use of already prepared and produced instructional materials like slides, film, video-tape, audio cassettes, charts and books. Though educational technology in its nature is relatively new, and so it means different thing to different people, but apart from various definitions and interpretations from scholars, experts and professionals at various times and stages of educational technology, the fact still remains that the successes which the field has attained within the short time of its evolution has made people of different backgrounds, training and experiences to hold different views about technology and education respectively. Also nature, stages and scope of educational technology itself has gone a long way to helping both the teachers and students to acquire effective teaching and learning.

Illustrated Handbook of Education Technology provides a comprehensive presentation of current policies and practices of technology in education. Bringing together points of view from both technological and pedagogical practices, this book aims to enhance interest in nontraditional approaches to learning.