The Early View of Instructional Technology

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The Early View of Instructional Technology

• Media born of the communications revolution
  which can be used for instructional purposes
  alongside the teacher, textbook, and blackboard
  (Commission on Instructional Technology, 1970)

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Instructional Technology A Second
Definition(Commission on Instructional
Technology, 1970)

• a systematic way of designing, carrying out, and
  evaluating the total process of learning and
  teaching in terms of specific objectives, based
  on research in human learning and communication,
  and employing a combination of human and
• nonhuman resources to bring about more effective
  instruction.

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Definitions Cont.

• the original meaning of the word 'technology'
  was concerned withknow-how or method, and it was
  only with the Great Exhibition of 1851 that the
  word became overly associated with machines."
  (Davies, I. K. , 1978).
• Technology 1. the practical application of
  knowledge. ... 2. a manner of accomplishing a
  task, especially using technical processes,
  methods, or knowledge (Websters Collegiate
  Dictionary, 10th Edition, 1993)

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Definition of Instructional Technology (according
to AECT, 1977)

• A complex, integrated process involving
  people,procedures, ideas, devices, and
  organization, for analyzing problems and
  devising, implementing, evaluating, and managing
  solutions to those problems, involved in all
  aspects of human learning.

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Instructional Technology The 1994 AECT
Definition

• Instructional Technology is the theory and
  practice of design, development, utilization,
  management, and evaluation of the processes and
  resources of learning.

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Group Task

• Answer the following questions. Put brief
  versions of your groups answers on poster paper.
• 5a. How does the definition proposed in reading
  1 go beyond the 1994 definition?
• 5b. In what ways is the new definition is more
  like the second CIT definition (1970) than the
  1994 definition?
• 6. The author of reading 1 suggests that IDT,
  rather than IT, is the term that should be used
  as the label for our field. Does your group
  agree or disagree? Explain why.

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Summary of Instructional Technology Definitions

• IT media
• the media born of the communications revolution
  not the teacher,textbook, and blackboard(CIT,
  1970)
• the things of learning, the devices materials
  which are used in the process of teaching and
  learning (Armsey Dahl, 1973)
• IT a systematic approach to instructional
  design
• a systematic way of designing, carrying out and
  evaluating the total process of learning and
  teaching (CIT, 1970)
• IT is a complex, integrated process .. for
  analyzing problems, and devising implementing,
  evaluating, and managing solutions to those
  problems... (AECT, 1977)
• IT ID (sort of) and resources (inc. media) and
  more
• IT is the theory and practice of design,
  development, utilization, management,
  evaluation of processes and resources for
  learning (AECT, 1994)