Meaning of

Educational
Technology
“Technology is more than hardware.
Technology consists of the designs and
the environments that engage learners.”
-D. Jonassen
Meaning of Educational Technology
 Technology is not just machines
 Planned, systematic method of working to
achieved planned outcomes
 How people use their inventions and discoveries to
satisfy their educational needs, i.e. LEARNING
ET
 A complex, integrated process involving people,
procedures, ideas, devices and organization for
analyzing solutions to those problems, involved in
all aspects of human learning. ( Association for
Educational Communications and Technology,
1997)
 Consists of the designs and environments that
engage learners and reliable technique or method
for engaging learning such as cognitive learning
strategies and critical thinking skills (David H.
Jonassen, et.al 1999)
 Theory about how problems in human learning are
identified and solved. (David H. Jonassen, Kyle L.
Peck, Brent G. Wilson, 1999) As a theory,
educational technology has an integrated set of
principles that explain and predict observed events.
 Field study which is concerned with the practice of
using educational methods and resources for the
ultimate goal of facilitating the learning process
(Lucido and Borabo, 1997)
 Isa profession like teaching.
 Made up of organized effort to implement the
theory, intellectual technique and practical
application of educational technology (David H.
Jonassen, et al)
 Application of scientific findings in our method, process or
procedure of working in the filed of education in order to
effect learning
 It embraces curriculum and instructional design, learning
environment, theories of teaching-learning
 It is also a field study and profession
 Use of all human inventions for teachers to realize their
mission to teach in order that students learn.
TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
 Application of technology to any of those
processes involved in operating the institutions
which house the educational enterprise.
 Application of technology to food, health, finance,
scheduling, grade reporting and other processes
which support education within institutions ( D. H.
Jonassen)
INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY
 Is a part of educational technology
 Aspects of educational technology that are
concerned with instruction as contrasted to designs
and operations of educational institutions
 Systematic way of designing, carrying out and
evaluating the total process of learning and
teaching in terms of specific objectives.
 Technology
 Using
Integration
technologies to introduce, reinforce, supplement and
extend skills

EDUCATIONAL MEDIA
• Channels of avenues or instruments of
communication.
Summing up…
 Educational technology is a broad term
 It refers to the use of all human inventions and
discoveries to satisfy our educational need and
desire---learning
 Devices, tools, equipment, activities, procedures
and processes