Instructional Technology

-- The Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT)

has adopted the following definition of Instructional Technology:
"Instructional Technology is the theory and practice of design,
development, utilization, management and evaluation of processes and
resources for learning" (Seels & Richey 1994).
 
-- Educational technology is a combination of the processes and tools
involved in addressing educational needs and problems, with an emphasis
on applying the most current tools: computers and their related
technologies (Roblyer & Edwards, 2000).
 
 Instructional Technology
-- Instructional Technology: Instructional technology is the systemic and
systematic application of strategies and techniques derived from
behavioral, cognitive, and constructivist theories to the solution of
instructional problems.
 
-- Instructional Technology = Instructional Design + Instructional
Development
 
-- Instructional technology is the systematic application of theory and other
organized knowledge to the task of instructional design and development.
 
-- Educational technology refers to a field of study and practice that is
conventionally conceived in light of its two constituent words. First, it is
concerned with the educational applications of technologies and not the
myriad uses of technologies in modern society. Second, it examines those
aspects of education that are crucially dependent on (usually new)
technologies.
Media are merely vehicles that
deliver instruction but do not
influence student achievement
any more than the truck that
delivers our groceries causes
changes in our nutrition
(Clark, 1983).