Also known variously as e-learning, instructional technology and learning technology, educational technology is the use of technology to support the learning process.It is usually used to talk specifically about digital computer technology and other product of technology that can be used in learning and teaching.
Although technology is widely used in the administration and management of education ( student records, marketing, procurement, finance etc) and in research, educational technology is only concerned with technology as it impacts upon the learning process- in delivering learning materials, facilitating communication and providing assessment and feedback. As society grows ever-more complex, at an ever-faster rate, so the demand for knowledge increases exponentially, with e-learning emerging as a major channel for meeting this demand. Early technology-mediated education was notoriously tedious for learners ploughing through screen upon screen of text, each ending with the prompt “click next to continue”. The process could be likened to pigeons being conditioned to peck the appropriate colored lever. However, the advent of the information age, and in particular the Internet and Web 2.0 technologies, has taken educational technology into a new era as well as giving it the snappy new name of e-learning.
Educational technology provides students and teachers conveniency in education when we totally know how technology is being function.Being in the exploration stage could give confusion to students that's why teachers must teach it well to help student understand more on the uses of technology to our lives especially to education.
