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Instructional Technology

Instructional Technology, or IT, is the art of selecting, designing, utilizing and evaluating appropriate and ethical technology that will allow an audience to construct meaning during a learning experience.

Leaders in Instructional Technology

B.F. Skinner

  • Developed the theory of operant behavior. 

  • Learning can be encouraged when certain behaviors are learned. 

  • Behavior should be included in instructional design.

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Robert Gagne

  • Cognitivism

  • Learning is defined as change in schemata.

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Jean Piaget

  • Student centered learning

  • Constructivist

  • Project based learning (PBL)

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Richard E. Clark

  • Argued against Instructional Technology

  • Instructional technology is merely a vehicle to deliver instruction.

  • No valid evidence that supports student achievement through instructional technology. 

History of Instructional Technology

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