This includes the definition, scope and functions of Educational Technology.

2. “ Let’s go invent tommorrow
instead of worrying about what
happened yesterday”
- Steve Jobs
What do you mean with this phrase?
In preparation to our topic about Educational
Technology

3. - basically means all the intellectual and
operational efforts made during recent
years to regroup, arrange and systematize
the application of scientific methods to the
organization of new sets of equipment and
material so as to optimize leaning process.
- (British Journal of Educational Technology, 1971)

4. - deals with the theory of Education
(Educational Technology in Asia under Apeid, 1995)
- is the development, application and
evaluation of systems, techniques and aids
to improve the process of human learning
(Lucido and Borado, 1997)

5. - is a profession like teaching
(Johanssen, et.al, as cited by Corpuz and Lucido, 2008)
- is the considered implementation of
appropriate tools, techniques, or processes
that facilitate the application of senses,
memory, and cognition to enhance teaching
practices and improve learning outcomes.
(Aziz, Hap. (2010))

7. - as the theory and practice of Educational
approaches to learning.
- as technological tools and media
- as tools for student and curriculum
- as an educational subject like “ICT”

8. 1) Identification of Objectives
- provides different methods and
techniques for writing instructional
objectives in behavioral terms.
2) Curriculum Development
- helpful in the selection of suitable
learning experience and organization of
contents in the present educational
framework.

9. 3) Improvement of Teaching and
Learning Process
- open to current research findings and
development
4) Enhancement of Teaching and
Learning Strategies
- selection of appropriate strategy and
tactics should be carefully carried out for
optimum results

10. 5) Development of the Teaching and
Learning Materials
- appropriate teaching aids should be
carefully chosen to augment the quality of
Education
6) Proper use of Hardware and Software
- evaluates its effectiveness in the
teaching and learning process

11. 7) Provides Feedbackls
- provides feedback to the teachers and
learners for the necessary improvements at
the preparatory and the implementation
stages in using these instructional materials.
- elaborates the ways and means of
choosing appropriate evaluation techniques
and selection of materials

12. Conclusion:
Edtech is concerned with all those who are
conneccted in anyway, directly or indirectly
to the processes and outcomes of Education.
Therefore, its scope should not be confined
to the limited boundaries, but it should be
left free for the necessary expansion,
discoveries and innovation of the new
generation.