Overview
- Provides a comprehensive overview of educational technology using widely emerging competency approach to learning and assessment
- Demonstrates multi-disciplinary approach, and aims to prepare students for becoming competent and innovative educational technology professionals
- Addresses the knowledge and skills to understand the organizational needs and requirements with practical uses of educational technology
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology (LNET)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction and Overview
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Perspectives of Educational Technology
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Design for Educational Technology
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Emerging Issues of Educational Technology
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About this book
The demand of educational technology has been rising steadily, primarily due to the fact that e-learning is a huge and significantly expanding world-wide industry. Commercial e-learning companies, training departments in large companies and organizations, computer software companies and educational institutions the world over employ large numbers of educational technology specialists. There is a strong demand for technologists who understand educational theories and for instructional designers and teachers who understand technologies.
This book is targeted towards those who are looking for career in educational technology, instructional design, or media and information systems, or may want to continue their studies in graduate programs in learning and instructional technology, and those who are interested in becoming teacher in K-12 setting but need background in educational technology. This book will also act as a valuable resource in teacher education programs where primary focus on mainstream education and requires an authentic resource in instructional design and educational technology. Keeping in mind the varied needs of the organizations, employees and potential students, this book adopts a competency approach to learning and assessment. The themes and topics take a multi-disciplinary approach, and are aimed at preparing students for competent and innovative educational technology professionals.
Reviews
“This book makes a clear appeal to the role of the educational technologies in learning institutions instead of addressing the ambiguous roles instructional designers often assume. This educational technology book is a strong classroom text and an indispensable reference for the educational technologist.” (Jennifer L. Culbertson and Craig D. Howard, TechTrends, Vol. 64, 2020)
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
J. Michael Spector is a Professor and Former Chair of Learning Technologies at the University of North Texas. He earned a Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on intelligent support for instructional design, assessing learning in complex domains, and technology integration in education. He is editor of Educational Technology Research and Development and serves on numerous other editorial boards. He edited the third and fourth editions of Handbook of Research on Educational Communications and Technology, as well as Encyclopedia of Educational Technology, and has more than 150 publications to his credit.
Junfeng Yang is a professor and dean of Department of Educational Technology at Hangzhou Normal University. He earned the title of “Zhejiang Young Zhijiang social science scholar”, “Hangzhou new century 131 scholar”. He has published more than 30 academic papers, including SSCI journal papers and outstanding Chinese journal papers. He also serves as the associate editor of Springer's Smart Learning Environments.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Educational Technology
Book Subtitle: A Primer for the 21st Century
Authors: Ronghuai Huang, J. Michael Spector, Junfeng Yang
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Educational Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6643-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-6642-0Published: 28 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-6643-7Published: 27 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2196-4963
Series E-ISSN: 2196-4971
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 248
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour