History of Educational Technology

In the 1960s educational technology into one study that a lot of attention in the education expert. At first, the development of educational technology is a continuation of studies on the use of Audiovisual, and learning in the education program. The study is essentially an attempt to solve the problem of human learning (human learning). Solutions were taken through assessment of educational technology that needs to learn to use problem-solving approaches appropriate to enable the use of many learning resources (learning resources).The development of educational technology studies produced various educational concepts and practices that are making use of the media as a source of learning. Therefore, there is a perception that educational technology with the media, but the media position serves as a means to facilitate the delivery of information or learning materials. In terms of the education system, the position serves to strengthen the technological education curriculum development, especially in the design and development, as well as its implementation, even assuming that there is a curriculum related to "what", while educational technology examines the "how". In relation to learning, educational technology strengthens in various ways and techniques to engineer began stage of the design, development, utilization of a variety of learning resources, implementation, and assessment and program learning outcomes.

Based on the history of its development, the term educational technology into use since 1963, and was officially professed by the Association of Educational Communication and Technology (AECT) since 1977, although sometimes overlapping with the use of the term learning technology. However, both terms are still used in accordance with its judgment. Finn (1965) reveals that in the UK and Canada is more commonly used term educational technology, while in the USA the term is widely used learning technology. But sometimes these two terms are used simultaneously in the same activity. And recently developed the concept that learning technology is more suitable to be used for the implementation of the teaching context.