The related theories of educational technology mainly include learning theory, teaching theory and communication theory. From the research contents of learning theory, teaching theory and communication theory, we can see its influence on teaching. Learning theory is a psychological theory to explore the nature of human learning and its formation mechanism. It focuses on how learning comes into being, pays attention to the permanent changes of individual behavior, studies what the basic conditions of learning are, and studies the reasons for the existence of factors (such as motivation, practice, reaction, etc.) contained in the learning system. ). Teaching theory focuses on the general laws of teaching. It pays more attention to how to control the change of individual behavior with special methods, how to improve the efficiency and effect of learning, and the role of factors included in the teaching system (such as objectives, students, textbooks, evaluation, etc.). The theory of educational communication mainly studies the laws of educational information communication activities and pays attention to the basic elements of educational communication.

the essence of education technology

① Educational technology must be guided by modern educational theory.

② Educational technology should make full use of all kinds of modern information technology.

③ Educational technology not only studies the resources of teaching and learning, but also attaches importance to the study of the process of teaching and learning.

Content of educational technology

The specific operation content of educational technology is to design, develop, apply, evaluate and manage the teaching resources and teaching process required by various teaching methods in order to realize the optimization of teaching.