Educational Technology as a Career By Sadaket A Malik Coordinator, IGNOU, SC 1264 Bhalessa Jammu and Kashmir Voice: 08803542605
E
ducational Technology is the science of designing
instructions for learners, so that it facilitates the whole process of learning. Any instruction needs design but it is more effective when the instruction takes place in an elearning environment. The instructional designer prepares Instructional Design for online courses, interactive multimedia packages, learning objects as well as for any other e-content. Educational Technology (ET) is the efficient organisation of any learning system adapting or adopting methods, processes, and products to serve identified educational goals. This involves systematic identification of the goals of education, recognition of the diversity of learners’ needs, the contexts in which learning will take place, and the range of provisions needed for each of these. The challenge is to design appropriate systems that will provide for and enable appropriate teaching-learning systems that could realise the identified goals.