The term 21st Century has become the central part of educational thinking and planning for the future. Administrators and Teachers are actively searching for ways to prepare students for the future, and the educational system has been evolving faster than ever before.

3. Educational technology is a wide field.
Therefore, one can find many definitions, some
of which are conflicting. Educational
technology can be considered either as a
design science or as a collection of different
research interests addressing fundamental
issues of learning, teaching and social
organization.

4. The Roles and
Functions
of Educational
Technology
in the 21st century
Education

21. THREE BROAD AREAS:
•Use technology
comprehensively to develop
proficiency in the 21st
century skills.

22. •Use technology
comprehensively to
support innovation
teaching and learning.

23. •Use technology
comprehensively to
create robust education
support system.

25. Improvement of
Teaching

26. Educational
technology analyses
the process of
teaching thoroughly. It
tries to find out the
different variables of
teaching their
interlinks, effects
upon each other,
relationships, and
theories of teaching.

27. Analysis of the
Teaching-Learning
Process

28. Educational
Technology
aims at
analyzing the
process of
teaching
learning
thoroughly.

29. Improvement
of Learning

30. Educational
Technology
analyses the
process of
learning and the
related theories.

31. Enhancing Goals of
Education

32. The objective of
education are being
reviewed and revised
with the passage of
time. Educational
Technology helps in
enhancing the right
objectives in the light of
the changed
circumstances and
changed environment.

33. Training to Teachers

34. The changed type
of environment
with new
curriculum and
new materials is
to be handled by
the teachers.

35. Development of
Curriculum

36. Keeping in view the
objectives of
education which have
been finalized by
education technology
thereafter , comes the
question of developing
right type of curriculum.

37. Development of
Teaching-Learning
Materials

38. Teaching –
Learning
materials are
also as
important as
anything else in
teaching
learning

39. Teaching Learning
Strategies

40. A strategy plays
an important role
in the hands of
the teacher in
very teaching –
learning
situation.

41. Development of Audio-
Visual Aids

42. Audio – Visual aids
have always played
an important role in
teaching learning
process. They need
to be used
according to the
times.

43. Help in Overall
Improvement

44. Educational
Technology helps in
locating the problems
in different areas of
education. It also
helps in remedying
the draw-backs.

45. Identification of Needs
of the Community

46. It helps in providing
equal education
opportunities to
backward people ,
disadvantaged
student and deprived
section of the
society.