Educational technology involves tools for education like media, machines, and networking hardware. It aims to improve teaching and learning, analyze the teaching-learning process, and help set educational goals. Educational technology can help develop curriculum and teaching materials, identify classroom needs, train teachers, and provide equal access to education.

1. Educational Technology
Arellano, Christine Joy

2. Educational Technology
Concerns an array of tools, such as media,
machines and networking hardware, as
well as considering underlying theoretical
perspectives for their effective application.

3. The Roles and Function of
Educational Technology in the 21st
Century Education

4. Improvement of Teaching
It tries to find out the different variables of
teaching, their interlinks, effects upon each
other, relationships, theories of teaching,
phases of teaching principles of teaching,
maxims of teaching etc.

5. Analysis of the Teaching-Learning Process
Concerned with various phases of teaching. The
principles of teaching and the maxims of teaching
are also analyzed by it. Over all, it tries to establish
better and better relationship between teaching
and learning.

6. Improvement of Learning
Educational Technology analyses the process of
learning and the related theories. It facilitates more
and more of learning in less time.

7. Fixing up Goals of Education
The objectives of education are being reviewed and
revised with the passage of time. Educational
technology helps in finding out the right objectives.
Educational Technology helps in fixing up the right
objectives in the light of the changed circumstances and
changed environment.

8. Training to Teachers
Right type of training to the teachers is the need of
the hour. Educational Technology can render its
valuable help in the training of teachers also. The use
of video tapes and computers will help the teachers
to remodel and reshape their teaching behaviors
suitably.

9. Development of Curriculum
Keeping in view the objectives of education
which have been finalized by education
technology thereafter comes the question of
developing right type of curriculum. Only a
suitable type of curriculum will help in the
attainment of goals.

10. Development of Teaching-Learning Materials
Teaching- learning materials are also as important
as anything else in the teaching-learning process.
They have to be in accordance with the
environment of the learners. In this age of science
and technology, the materials of teaching cannot
be unscientific.

11. Teaching-Learning Strategies
The strategy has to be the right one which should
be according to the materials and is able to bring
about effective teaching-learning. The different
strategies are being evolved by educational
technology. The knowledge of those strategies is a
must for every teacher.

12. Development of Audio-Visual Aids
They need be used according to the times. The
software aids, the hardware aids, the computer and
other such appliances, equipment etc., have “to be
used in the present type of teaching-learning
environment.

13. Help in Overall Improvement
Evaluation of the teaching- learning process is also
made better because through feedback, things are
improved thoroughly and there is better control
over the process of education. Thus, educational
technology can revolutionize the whole process of
teaching-learning.

14. Identification of Needs of the Community
It helps in providing equal education opportunities
to backward people, disadvantaged students and
deprived sections of the society. It helps education
to reach the remotest corner of the country.

15. Identification of the Needs of Class-Room
Behaviors
Educational Technology identifies the needs of class-
room behavior. As the mass education has reduced
the standard of education, the use of educational
technology can maintain and improve the standard
by the use of teaching aids and programmed
instruction material. Educational Technology can
inspire the students in the class-rooms for self-
learning.