IT in Your Professional Context

Brock Hoffman

bshoffman@vt.edu

3/8/21

Definition of Technology: The application of knowledge, processes, and devices for a practical purpose
to efficiently achieve a goal.

Definition of Instructional Technology: The application of knowledge, processes, and devices for a
practical purpose to yield a predetermined outcome that will affect learners in a way that learning is
facilitated.

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shake.