SEMINAR PRESENTATION ON APPROACHES

TO
EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY.

Presented by :
Khushbu Shaw

MEANING OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Educational technology is the study and ethical

practice of creating, using and managing
appropriate
technological
processes
and
resources. The term educational technology is
often associated with encompasses, instructional
theory and learning theory.

Educational tEchnology includEs, mainly thrEE approachEs

Software approach is concerned with teaching

objectives in behavioural terms, principles of
teaching, methods of teaching reinforcement of
instructional system, feedback, reviews and
evaluation.

Hardware approach mechanises the process

of teaching so that teachers would be able to
deal with more students with less
expenditures in educating them.

Systems Approach to education emphasizes

Identifying and stating the goals to be achieved.

Identifying the processes, methods, techniques and strategies that may
be most relevant to achieving the predetermined goals;
Building up theoretical foundation justifying the relevance of these
processes to achieving the goals;
Determining specific interactions visualized existing among various other
components of inputs;
Specifying the various kinds of controls needed in the total system at
different points; and
Keeping the whole in mind all the time while preparing the model or the
system.

From the above discussion we can say that Software &

Hardware approaches cannot be separated from each
other. So both of them go hand to maximize the effects
of teaching-learning process. Both are interlinked to
plant & the seed of Education Technology...