educational technology

Rebecca Ethington's picture

My Learning and Technology definitions

 My definition of instructional technology is it  is the things-methods, tools, gear--teachers use to teach students.  The more        these things apply to our students' lives the more engaged they are in learning what we have to teach.   I define educational technology  the same way.  Technologies in education are the tools and methods we use to instruct our students: these can be gear and such but also concepts such as multisensory learners or  cooperation learning.  They may be different in the way that educational technology is used in formal education settings whereas instructional technology is used more in any kind of sharing of information.  However, the actual methods, tools, etc are the same. 

Submitted by Rebecca Ethington on Thu, 09/10/2009 - 8:07pm
Marc Burgess's picture

Week 2: Definitions

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Submitted by Marc Burgess on Sat, 09/05/2009 - 9:42am
Jill Mason's picture

Week 6: What is learning? How can learning be best effectuated by a teacher/trainer?

I think that often learning is a collaborative process. This week I am on campus (oh YES, here I am at Merrill Hall!) taking INST 6105, Distance Education Tools. The instructor has allowed each student to become very familiar with a tool that is or could be utilized in distance education, and present that tool to the class in a mini-workshop. The resulting discussions are so amazing! As people who share the same interests, whether by nature or by force of taking the same class, collaborate and share their thoughts, far more learning takes place that will be retained by the learner.
 
Learning can be best effectuated by a teacher/trainer when the teacher is truly enthusiastic about what s/he teaches.Click here to read more »
Submitted by Jill Mason on Tue, 06/16/2009 - 8:06pm
James Wilson's picture

Design Blog - James Wilson

Design Blog - James Wilson
Submitted by James Wilson on Thu, 01/15/2009 - 12:10pm
Doug Holton's picture

Java and Ed Tech Foundations Course Resources

I posted links to the resources for my two courses on my other blog.  One course is 5275 Multimedia Development with Java, for non-programmers interested in a survey of the basics of java and what you can do with the java platform.  If you want to learn how to develop interactive graphical educational software, check out the resources there as an alternative to Flash.  The Java tools are all free and open source. 
 
The other course is 6310 foundations of educational technology.  Our students are working on an Click here to read more »
Submitted by Doug Holton on Thu, 10/16/2008 - 8:41am
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