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Educational technology

The Definition of Educational Technology by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology published in 1977 (Parts 1-3 of 16)

1. Educational technology is a complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices, and organization, for analyzing problems and devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing solutions to those problems, involved in all aspects of human learning.

In educational technology, the solutions to problems take the form of all the Learning Resources that are designed and/or selected and/or utilized to bring about learning, these resources are identified as Messages, People, Materials, Devices, Techniques, and Settings. The processes for analyzing problems and devising, implementing and evaluating solutions are identified by the Educational Development Functions of Research-Theory, Design, Production, Evaluation-Selection, Logistics, Utilization, and Utilization-Dissemination. The processes of directing or coordinating one or more of these functions are identified by the Educational Management Functions of Organization Management and Personnel Management. The relationships among these elements are shown by the Domain of Educational Technology Model.

Educational technology is a theory about how problems in human learning are identified and solved.

Educational technology is a field involved in applying a complex, integrated process to analyze and solve problems in human learning.

Educational technology is a profession made up of an organized effort to implement the theory, intellectual technique, and practical application of educational technology.