Educational technology is a process, a product, a profession and a discipline.
As a process, it is the theory and practice of designing, developing, utilizing, managing and evaluating processes and resources intended for learning (AECT, 1994).
As a product, educational technology refers to results of the education-technological processes like programmed texts, TV progras, computer software, audio-visual media, interactive multimedia and entire courses of instruction (Hackbarth, 1996).
As a profession, it is composed of various job categories such as media technicians,, media specialists, instructional developers and others (Ibid.).
As a discipline, it is an academic field of specialization within the larger discipline of education (Ibid.).
[Technology Integration is the process of determining where and how technology fits into teaching and learning (Williams, 2000).
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