Syllabus

Course Code: MED120(D)(ii)    Course Name: Education Technology (at Secondary and Senior Secondary Level)

MODULE NO / UNIT COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE NOTES
1 1. Educational Technology
• Meaning and Scope of Educational Technology
• Components of Educational Technology – Software, Hardware & System Approach
• System Approach to Education and its Characteristics

2. Multimedia Approach in Educational Technology
• ICT
• Multimedia Approach
• Blended Approach in Teaching Learning
2 3. Teaching
• Modalities of Teaching – Teaching as different from Indoctrination, Instructions, Conditioning and Training
• Stages of Teaching – Pre-Active, Interactive and Post-Active
• Teaching at Different Levels – Memory, Understanding and Reflective Level of organizing Teaching and Learning

4. Programmed Instructions
• Origin, Principles and Characteristics
• Types: Linear, Branching and Mathetics
• Development of a Programmed Instructions: Preparation, Writing, Try out and Evaluation
3 5. Class-Room Communication & Modification of Teaching Behavior
• Class-Room Communication
- Communication Process: Concept of Communication
- Principles, Modes and Barriers to Communication
- Class-Room Communication (Interaction, Verbal and Non-Verbal)
- Models of Communication
· Shannon & Weaver Model of Communication
· Berlo’s Model of Communication
• Modification of Teaching Behavior
- Micro-Teaching
- Flanders Interaction Analyses
- Simulation

6. Models of Teaching
• Concept and Need
• Characteristics and Fundamental Principles
• Different Families of Teaching Models
• Teaching Models: Glaser’s Basic Teaching Model, Bruner’s Concept Attainment Model, Ausubel’s Advance Organizer Model, Social Enquiry Model of Cox & Massials
4 7. Designing Instructional System and Developing Evaluation Tools
• Designing Instructional System
- Formulation of Instructional Objectives
- Task Analysis
- Designing of Instructional Strategies: Lecture, Team Teaching, Discussion, Seminars, Tutorials and Brain-Storming Sessions
• Development of Evaluation Tools
- Norm Referenced Tests and Criterion Referenced Tests

8. Application of Educational Technology in Distance Education
• Concept of Distance Education and Application of Educational Technology
• Open Learning Systems and Application of Educational Technology
• Application of Educational Technology w.r.t. Student Support Services, Evaluation Strategies and Counseling in Distance Education
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