Week 3: What is Educational Technology?
Channel: SOUL
Date: 2018-03-02

When a teacher uses the internet for teaching materials or when students look up a definition on an on-disc world atlas, that teacher is using some of the latest and best of what is commonly called technology in education or educational technology. But educational technology is not new at all, and it is by no means limited to the use of equipment, let alone electronic equipment. Modern tools and techniques are simply the latest developments in a field that some believe is as old as education itself. (Integrating Educational Technology into Teaching, 2nd edition, M.D. Roblyer – Jack Edwards, Prentice Hall, 2000)