Advanced Educational Technology (In 2 Volumes)

The book highlights as to how educational technology helps in making education more productive, powerful and suitable. An attempt has been made in this book to bridge the gap between traditional and modern approaches of teaching and learning and thus making fresh teachers reality effective and efficient by equipping them with practical teaching skills and qualities of creative teaching. The book deals with technology of instruction: Methods, Strategies, Audio-Visual Aids, Mass-Media and Multi-Media in Education. It is comprehensive enough to meet the requirements of syllabi for B.Ed. and M.Ed. courses of all the Indian Universities. It comprises chapters on Teaching Variables, Phases and Operation, Levels of Teaching, Maxims and Principles of Successful Teaching , Instructional Objectives, Interaction Analysis, Instructional Designs, Communication Strategies, General Techniques of Teaching, Methodology of Teaching and Instructional Strategies, Asking Questions and Receiving Answers, Teaching Management: Planning, Leading and Controlling, Field Trips and Utilisation of Community Resources, Project Strategy, Programmed Learning, Micro Teaching and Simulation Teaching, the Problem Solving Method, Teaching Machines and Computer, Techniques for Higher Learning, Team Teaching, Audio-visual Aids in Education, Teaching by Modeling, Mass-Media and Multi-Media in Education, the School Museum and Exhibition, Laboratory, Institutional Planning, Lesson Planning and Open or Distance Education Technology. Written in lucid and simple language with matter drawn from authentic sources and constant reference to Indian situations, this book is a must for the pupil-teachers as well as B.Ed. and M.Ed. students. It will serve as a guide to all those who are engaged in the field of education. In addition to this, the book will greatly inspire teachers, educationists, parents, education administrators, conscious citizens and general readers because it contains upto date knowledge on all aspects of advanced educational technology.