online assignment

1. ONLINE
ASSIGNMENT
Submitted by
Anjana Lekshmi . s
Physical science
Roll.no: 3
Emmanuel college of B.Ed
Training college Vazhichal

2. TOPIC :
MEANING, OBJECTIVES AND
SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL
TECHNOLOGY

3. INTRODUCTION
Educational technology is
most simply and comfortably defined as an
array of tools that might prove helpful in
advancing student learning. Educational
technology relies on abroad definition of the
word ‘technology’. Educational technologists
make significant contributions to the
development and organizational embedding of
such environments. Their emerging role is
complex as it requires current knowledge and
skills in learning, teaching,management and
information technology. Educational technology
is concerned with the overall effectiveness and
efficient functioning of the educational system.

4. MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Educational Technology explains that how
the educational process can be improved.
Educational Technology is a system of 5M’s.
Educational Technology is a system in education in
which machines, materials, media, men and
methods are interrelated and work together for the
fulfillment of specific educational objectives.
Educational Technology is an applied or practical
study which aims at maximizing educational effects
by controlling such relevant factors as educational
purposes, educational content, teaching materials,
educational environment, conduct of students,
behavior of instructor and interrelations between
students and instructors. It is a branch of study in
which the results of engineering techniques,
information science, natural sciences and human
technology are to be used to promote the efficiency
of education.

5. SCOPE OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Scope of educational technology is as wide as
education itself. Its scope ranges from the concrete
educational process to the most abstract and subtle ones.
It includes the use of hardware and software and systems
analysis in various educational operations. The three
major areas in education in which its scope is very wide.
These are;
a)Technology related to general education
administration and management.
b)Technology related to general educational
testing.
c)Technology related to the instructional process.
Rowntra (1973) has started the following as the
province of educational technologists.
a)Identifying aims and objectives of learning.
b)Planning the learning environment.
c)Exploring and structuring the subject matter.
d)Selecting appropriate teaching strategies and
learning media.

6. e)Evaluating the effectiveness of the learning
system.
f) Using the insights gained from evaluation to
improve their effectiveness for the future.
Important areas which should comprise educational
technology are as under:
a)Concept and various facts of educational
technology.
b)Teaching - learning process.
c)Individualized instructional technology.
d)Programmed learning.
e)Teaching models.
f) Learning theories.
g)Multimedia approach to teaching.
h)Mathematics.
i) Cybernetics.
j) Task analysis.
k)Modules.
l) Systems approach.

7. MACROLEVEL OBJECTIVES OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
[Objectives in terms of broad educational
goals]
To identify the need and aspiration of the community.
To determine the aims, objectives and the general
structure of education.
To develop an integrated curriculum of arts, science of
human values.
To identify and locate material resources and strategies
for achieving the desired aims of education.
To develop specific models of teaching to bring about
an improvement in the teaching learning process.
To identify the latest environmental constraints and
means to tackle them.
To assist in providing vocational oppertunities to the
needy and deserving.
To manage the entire educational system consists of
planning, implementation and evaluation phases.

8. MICROLEVEL OBJECTIVES OF
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY [Objectives in
terms of specific classroom teaching]
To identify the educational needs of the learner.
To assess the characteristics of the student.
To determine and formulate classroom objectives in
behavioral terms.
To identify the necessary teaching learning materials.
To identify the contents of instruction and organize
them in a proper sequence.
To predetermine the nature of interaction between
subsystems ie, students, teachers, teaching learning
materials, content and methodologies.
To identify human resources.
To plan out teaching strategies, models of methods as
per the needs and objectives.
To evaluate the effectiveness of teaching strategy in
terms of learning outcomes that is behavioral changes
in the students.
To provide appropriate feedback to students as well
as teachers.
To modify the teaching learning process on the basis
of feedback received.

9. CONCLUSION
Educational technology is the study and ethical
practice of facilitating learning and improving
performance by creating, using and managing
appropriate technological processes and resources. The
term educational technology is often associated with
instructional and learning theory. Educational technology
makes the educational process systematic and Scientific .
It has provided a scientific foundation to educational
process. It makes teaching, learning and training
scientific, objective, simple and interesting. Educational
technology applies the products of science, scientific
theory and principles and discoveries to strengthen the
process and organization of education.

10. REFERENCE
ADVANCED EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
- DR. PRADEEP CHAUDHARY
ESSENTIALS OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
- J.C. AGGARWAL