About the Book

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.

About Author

Rajarshi Roy, a postgraduate in Education and Sociology and Doctorate in Education, is actively associated with Educational and Policy research for the development of the oppressed. His specific contribution is in the arena of Ethno pedagogy, Environmental Education and socio-educational studies for the life-improvement of the population at crisis, apart from Pedagogy of Engineering Education and Indigenous Technology. Dr. Roy believes in participatory research through observation and introspection. He possesses to his credit more than four dozens of papers in various journals of international and national repute. He was offered with Professorship in a University-PG department of Education in 2008. Presently he is associated with National Institute of Technical Teachers' Training & Research, Kolkata (Under Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India).

Contents

PART I: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AS KNOWLEDGE BASE

PART II: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND TEACHER

PART III: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY AND ITS USE IN ACADEMIA

PART IV: SOCIAL PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX

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