Educational technology is an important achievement in the development of modern pedagogy. The participation of educational technology in educational process is the optimization and popularization of educational process model, which makes the organization order of educational process more reasonable and systematically optimizes the thinking of analyzing and dealing with educational and teaching problems. As an important aspect of optimizing educational activities, educational technology has a long history. The basis of this theory is the application of teaching media. After 65438+60s, people really used the term educational technology and formed an independent knowledge system around it.
Of course, it has a gestation period and a growth period, up to nearly a hundred years. The continuous development of modern science and technology and modern educational concept endows the concept of educational technology with rich connotation and infinite vitality. Educational technology is the theory and practice about the design, development, use, management and evaluation of learning resources and learning process. Its ultimate value pursuit is to optimize education and teaching. Education is people-oriented and teaching-oriented.
Employment direction:
Educational technology-related researchers, educational technology-related teachers in colleges and universities, and R&D personnel; Teaching software related personnel, primary and secondary school computer teachers, clerks, journalists, editors, continuing graduate students, graduate students and even doctoral students.
Details are as follows:
(1) The departments of educational technology in normal universities and non-normal universities are mainly engaged in education and teaching, mainly for graduate students, doctoral students and undergraduates.
(2) The provincial, municipal, district and county audio-visual education centers (stations) are mainly engaged in audio-visual education management, project research and educational informatization construction ("proofreading" project and information technology education), and the main targets are graduate students and undergraduates.
(3) The propaganda and education departments of ministries, military units, industrial and mining enterprises and foreign-funded enterprises, especially the training of enterprise employees, is a new hot spot, mainly for undergraduates.
(4) Primary and secondary schools mainly focus on audio-visual education management, courseware making and information technology education courses, mainly for undergraduates and junior college students.
(5) TV stations and radio stations at all levels produce educational programs, mainly for undergraduates.
Career prospects:
The employment prospect of educational technology specialty is good. With the complexity of educational content and the rapid development of information technology, modern education needs to closely combine educational theory, learning theory and practice, and comprehensively use modern educational technology to teach, so that the educated can make full use of visual and auditory channels in a limited time and gain more useful knowledge. Educational technology cultivates students' efficient learning skills and abilities, enables people to quickly adapt to the rapidly developing society and quickly master all kinds of knowledge and skills, so that educational technology has broad development prospects. China's future information education urgently needs such talents.