Instructional vs Educational
Technology
What is Instructional Technology
What is an Instructional Technologist
What is their job duties?
What is Educational Technology?
The study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using and managing appropriate technological processes and resources. It is to facilitate learning & increase performance.
Learning Management Systems, Digital Tools & Media, Information & Communications Tech
School infrastructure.
This field focuses on the improvement of the teaching and learning process to create a better learning experience with the aid of technology.
Resource: Educational Technologist
What is an educational technologist?
Educational Technologist can work in a variety of environments including:
- Education
- Government
- Military
- Health Care
- Sales
- Many others.
Every organization needs to train employees and the consequences of bad learning/training process can include;
- low efficiency
- mistakes
- underutilized resources
- waste of money
- high employee turnover
- lack of adequate skills in employees
- frustration
What is their job duties?
Resource Link: What Does an Educational Technologist Do?
Your own personal definition of instructional technology.
State the difference between instructional and educational technology.
Educational Technology is the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources. It is using technology to help people learn and to improve performance.
Educational technology is learning by a device or learning digitally. Educational technology is a process of designing something.
Instructional Design is the whole process from start to finish.
Resource: Instructional Design vs eLearning-What is the Difference?
References
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Educational Technologist
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