Educational Media and Technology Yearbook Volume 39
This book is an annual publication entering its 40th year. The series represents current trend and issues in the field of educational communications and technology, journals and other periodicals associated with the field, and the academic programs that p
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Michael Orey Robert Maribe Branch Editors
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook Volume 39
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook
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Michael Orey • Robert Maribe Branch Editors
Educational Media and Technology Yearbook Volume 39
Editors Michael Orey Learning, Design, and Technology Program University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA
Robert Maribe Branch Learning, Design, and Technology Program University of Georgia Athens, GA, USA
ISSN 8755-2094 Educational Media and Technology Yearbook ISBN 978-3-319-14187-9 ISBN 978-3-319-14188-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-14188-6
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Preface
The audience for the Yearbook consists of media and technology professionals in schools, higher education, and business contexts. Topics of interest to professionals practicing in these areas are broad, as the Table of Contents demonstrates. The theme unifying each of the following chapters is the use of technology to enable or enhance education. Forms of technology represented in this volume vary from traditional tools such as the book to the latest advancements in digital technology, while areas of education encompass widely ranging situations involving learning and teaching which are idea technologies. As in prior volumes, the assumptions underlying the chapters presented here are as follows: 1. Technology represents tools that act as extensions of the educator. 2. Media serve as delivery systems for educational communications. 3. Technology is not restricted to machines and hardware, but includes techniques and procedures derived from scientific research about ways to promote change in human performance. 4. The fundamental tenet
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