HISTORY OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY

This book touches upon the progresses in education with technological aids. Through a systematic elaboration of the history of educational technology, the book shows how the teaching and learning of the 20^th and the 21^st centuries have successfully replaced the archaic systems of promulgating education. At the same time, the authors of these essays highlight the dynamism of current students equipped with the multidimensional and practical education that is made possible by virtue of educational technologies such as internet-based learning, e-learning, audio-visual incorporation and such others. Consequently, the book is chaptered with the systematic discussions on the aspects, importance, scope and potentiality of educational technology. In seven discursive chapters, the book covers such issues as historical overview of educational technology until the 21^st century, the role of media and technologies in education, application of educational technology, opportunities and challenges of e-learning, dissemination of education through distance learning, and, finally, the ultimate influence of educational technology in future world.