This document discusses the various roles of educational technology in improving the teaching and learning process. It analyzes how educational technology can help: 1) improve teaching quality by developing theories of teaching; 2) analyze the teaching-learning process by studying variables and relationships; and 3) improve learning by facilitating more learning in less time. It also discusses how educational technology assists in fixing education goals, training teachers, developing curriculums, teaching materials, and strategies. Finally, it helps develop audio-visual aids and identifies needs to help improve the overall education system.

3. 1. Improvement of Teaching:
Educational Technology analyses the
process of teaching thoroughly. It tries to find
out the different variables of teaching, their
interlinks, effects upon each other,
relationships, theories of teaching, phases of
teaching principles of teaching, maxims of
teaching etc. By developing the theories of
teaching, it helps in improving the quality of
education.

4. 2. Analysis of the Teaching-
Learning Process:
Educational Technology aims at
analyzing the process of teaching-learning
thoroughly. It tries to find out the different
variables of teaching their interlinks effects
upon each other, relationship etc.
It is also concerned with various phases
of teaching. The principles of teaching and the
maxims of teaching are also analyzed by it.
Over all, it tries to establish better and better
relationship between teaching and learning.

5. 3. Improvement of Learning:
Educational Technology analyses the
process of learning and the related theories. It
facilitates more and more of learning in less
time. It takes the help of various empirically
established generalizations from psychology,
sociology, physical sciences, engineering etc.

6. 4. Fixing up Goals of
Education:
The objectives of education are being
reviewed and revised with the passage of
time. Educational technology helps in finding
out the right objectives. Everything in this
universe is undergoing tremendous changes
and with a very fast speed.
The needs and requirements of the
people and hence education need be revised
from moment to moment. Educational
Technology helps in fixing up the right
objectives in the light of the changed

7. 5. Training to Teachers:
The changed type of environment with
new curriculum and new materials is to be
handled by the teachers. The teachers
equipped with old strategies and
methodologies of teaching will remain misfits.
Right type of training to the teachers is
the need of the hour. Educational Technology
can render its valuable help in the training of
teachers also. The use of video tapes and close
circuit T.V. will help the teachers to remodel
and reshape their teaching behaviors suitably.

8. 6. Development of
Curriculum:
Keeping in view the objectives of
education which have been finalized by
education technology thereafter comes the
question of developing right type of
curriculum. Only a suitable type of curriculum
will help in the attainment of goals.
Curriculum is the total teaching-learning
environment which has to be modified and
remodeled in the light of latest thoughts. Only
educational technology can do this job of

9. 7. Development of Teaching-
Learning Materials:
Teaching- learning materials are also as important as
anything else in the teaching-learning process. They have
to be in accordance with the environment of the learners.
In this age of science and technology, the materials of
teaching cannot be unscientific.
Everything of the society including values of life
need be reflected in the materials. Only right type of
materials will able to modify the behavior of the learner
suitably making him a fit person for the society. Only
educational technology can develop the required and the
desired type of teaching-learning materials.

10. 8. Teaching-Learning
Strategies:
A strategy plays an important role in the
hands of a teacher in every teaching-learning
situation.
The strategy has to be the right one
which should be according to the materials and
is able to bring about effective teaching-
learning. The different strategies are being
evolved by educational technology. The
knowledge of those strategies is a must for
every teacher. Then only the teachers will be

11. 9. Development of Audio-Visual
Aids:
Audio-Visual aids have always played an
important role in the teaching-learning process.
They need be used according to the times. The
software aids, the hardware aids, the computer and
other such appliances, equipment etc., have “to be
used in the present type of teaching-learning
environment.
Computer assisted instructions will help the learner
as well as the teacher to achieve the goals of
education more conveniently. There is need of

12. 10. Help in Overall
Improvement:
Educational technology helps in locating the
problems in the different areas of education. It also
helps in remedying the draw-backs.
Evaluation of the teaching- learning process
is also made better because through feedback,
things are improved thoroughly and there is better
control over the process of education. Thus,
educational technology can revolutionize the whole
process of teaching-learning.

13. 11. Identification of Needs of the
Community:
Educational Technology identifies the needs of
the community. It helps in providing equal education
opportunities to backward people, disadvantaged
students and deprived sections of the society. It helps
education to reach the remotest corner of the country.
The needs and requirements of the community
are fast changing. Educational Technology aims at
identifying the needs of the community from time to
time. Then it tries to improve the community in every
possible way.

14. 12. Identification of the Needs
of Class-Room Behaviors.
Educational Technology identifies the
needs of class-room behavior. As the mass
education has reduced the standard of
education, the use of educational technology
can maintain and improve the standard by the
use of teaching aids and programmed
instruction material. Educational Technology
can inspire the students in the class-rooms for
self-learning.

16. 1.As tools to support knowledge
construction:
For representing learners ‘ ideas,
understanding and beliefs
For producing organized , multimedia
knowledge bases by learners.

17. 2. As information vehicle for
exploring knowledge to
support learning-by-
construction:
For accessing needed information
For comparing perspective, beliefs and
world views

18. 3. As context to support learning-
by-doing:
 For representing and stimulating meaningful
real-world problems, situation and
context
 For representing beliefs, perspective, arguments
and stories of others
For defining a safe, controllable problem space
for student thinking

19. 4. As a social medium to
support learning by conversing:
For collaborating with others
For discussing, arguing, and building
consensus among members of the community
For supporting discourse among
knowledge-building communities

20. 5. As intellectual partner to
support learning-by-reflecting:
For helping others to articulate and represent
what they know
For reflecting on what they have learned and
how they came to know it
For supporting learners internal negotiations
and mean making
For constructing personal representations of
meaning for supporting mindful thinking

21. PREPARED BY:
Nica Rose L.
Booc