Although educational technology is not a new field and has a rich and informative if little known history, it is far younger than more established disciplines such as history, mathematics, science, and language studies. Still, we can ask: what field today has more potential to increase and improve the productivity of teaching and learning than educational technology?
Working in partnership with our colleagues in all the acadmic disciplines, we believe that knowledge and skill gained by studying in our program has the potential to enrich, expand, and improve education in particular and society in general.
Although students in educational media and technology need to achieve mastery over technical subjects such as modern software, networks, and digital video, our focus is on the design, implementation, and evaluation of technology-based resources that support teaching and learning. Design that in part transcends the particular technology of the day. Our graduates are scholars and practitioners who teach others, research effectiveness, and design technology resources with research and history to help guide design. Many work as partners with scholars and practitioners in other fields to bring effective design to any and all fields of learning. Our students learn to make judgments on why, how, and when technology should be used in education.
Our focus on design for education, our focus on subjects that will improve and enhance peoples lives and civilization, and our focus on technology as a moral and social issue about which decisions and choices can and should be made, set our study in the right context for meaningful learning and careers.
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