Educational Technology in Changing Society
Contents: Preface. I. Educational technology as knowledge base: 1. A conceptual and definitional focus of the meaning of educational technology in the 21st century/Denis Hlynka and Markian Hlynka. 2. Platforms for education: the enhanced home and school/Bruce Joyce and Emily Calhoun. 3. Designing effective online courses with first principles of instruction/Theodore W. Frick, Joyce Hwee Ling Koh and Rajat Chadha. 4. Use of ICT and cognitive apprenticeship model to enhance the teaching of biology/Lum Wai Mei. 5. Pedagogical framework for on-line learning/Shyamal Majumdar. 6. Educational technology: what is it? why it is?/Rajarshi Roy and Anjana Paira. II. Educational technology and teacher: 7. Technologically-minded primary school teacher : a case study of Latvia/Dzintra Ilisko and Svetlana Ignatjeva. 8. Educational technology, teacher and the emerging Indian scenario/R.P. Singh. 9. Roles of teachers and adoption of educational technology in the Chinese context/Chang Zhu. 10. Guiding strategy for technology innovation : a case of the University of Botswana/P.Y. Thomas. III. Educational technology and its use in academia: 11. Education technology, teachers and social capital: a crucial combination/Phillip Hughes. 12. A suggested model of E-twinning of academic institutions/Nilasco Arputharaj and Shobana Nelasco. 13. Internet based virtualization of laboratory experiments : a reality through educational technology/Rajiv Tiwari. 14. Role of information and communication technology (ICT) in higher education/D.N. Reddy and K. Lal Kishore. 15. The foundation for an engaged and secure campus community by mobile technology/Maganlal S. Molia. IV. Social perspectives of educational technology: 16. Sustainability and educational technology/Alberto Arenas. 17. Revisiting educational technology past, present and predicted future/Dulal Mukhopadhyaya. 18. Ukraine-specific managerial ethics: its structure in the light of educational technology/Olena Vynoslavska and Mariya Kononets. 19. Gender equality through ICT in India/Yazali Josephine. Index.
Educational technology is just not the mechanization of educational process, rather it emphasizes over techniques of teaching, methodology, following which teaching takes place, and the task of teaching together forming the bases of learning. These come under the purview of learning technology. Therefore all these techniques, methods and teaching come under the purview of educational technology.
Different schools of thoughts and disciplines are engaged in developing the system of education and thereby for betterment of human society. Now-a-days good many instructional designs are in use in varying educational setups. These are the contribution of educational technology. Training psychology, cybernetic psychology and system analysis are the few examples in this context.
The volume, divided into four parts viz educational technology as knowledge base, educational technology and teacher, educational technology and its use in academia and social perspectives of educational technology, accords contribution from the scholars globally, discusses the pertinent themes and concept, centering round the area, covering the dimensions theory and practices in changing society, which is expected to update the changing concept pertaining to educational technology. (jacket)
Educational technology is just not the mechanization of educational process, rather it emphasizes over techniques of teaching, methodology, following which teaching takes place, and the task of teaching together forming the bases of learning. These come under the purview of learning technology. Therefore all these techniques, methods and teaching come under the purview of educational technology.
Different schools of thoughts and disciplines are engaged in developing the system of education and thereby for betterment of human society. Now-a-days good many instructional designs are in use in varying educational setups. These are the contribution of educational technology. Training psychology, cybernetic psychology and system analysis are the few examples in this context.
The volume, divided into four parts viz educational technology as knowledge base, educational technology and teacher, educational technology and its use in academia and social perspectives of educational technology, accords contribution from the scholars globally, discusses the pertinent themes and concept, centering round the area, covering the dimensions theory and practices in changing society, which is expected to update the changing concept pertaining to educational technology. (jacket)
