Edcational Technology
...for multiple educational objectives. Every place is different. Every student has his or her individual needs and interests. Various curricula require different technological approaches. We still think that the only way to educate is to put an adult in a room with 20 or 30 students, but with educational technology a great deal can be done with machines, particularly in higher education, where students have already learned the initial, fundamental intellectual skills. For example, how do people learn? By action they themselves perform, sometimes by thinking, sometimes by practicing, often by a combination of both thinking and motor coordination. In most cases, teachers cannot perform those actions for students; students must teach themselves, and teachers can only stand by to offer assistance. With Educational technology its enhances the learning opportunities by demonstrating how certain actions should be done so that students can imitate them, and diagnosing student's errors and making suggestions which help modify their actions so as to correct those errors. New technologies link classrooms to the world and provide students with far more intelligent tools of inquiry and teachers with much more comprehensive resources of response and stimulation.
Let us speculate on how educational technology carries out higher education in the future without benefit of faculty or campuses. Let us particularly focus on the home television (TV) set equipped to play digital versatile disk (DVD); they may not turn out to be the optimal educational technology, but it will do for the purpose of the moment. DVD's could be produced by commercial, universities and individuals on every subject under the sun. Anyone could learn anything by renting the appropriate DVD's and playing them on his own TV set. Assisting this form of learning would be a nationwide institutional...
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