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“Computer Assisted Instruction has now taken on so many dimensions that it can no longer be considered a simple derivative of the teaching machine or of the kind of programmed learning that Skinner introduced.

Teaching is a complex phenomenon that comprises of various specific teaching skills. Through Micro-Teaching, complexities of class-room teaching are reduced. The different skills are identified and then mastery of each skill is acquired.

Micro-Teaching is one of the most recent innovations in teacher education programmes which aim to modify teacher’s behaviour according to the specified objectives.

In 1965, Lorence Settlor and Daniel Davis developed most complicated teaching processes in which computer was used for presenting instructions in place of teacher. They divided the teaching process of the computer in two parts:

The instruction has significant role in human learning. The systematic actions which induce learning is known as instruction. The instruction stands for development of knowledge and beliefs.

1. All the three types of objectives: cognitive, affective and psychomotor can be achieved by this technology.

Hardware Approach has physical science and applied engineering as its basis. They have mechanised the whole teaching-learning process. There is even reduction in the cost of education.

The scientific, inventions and technological developments have influenced every walk of human life. There is rapid mechanization in the field of industries, defence, trade, administration, etc.

By scope of educational technology we mean the jurisdiction, the limits or the boundaries within which it works. It needs demarcation of the boundaries within which the process of education can go on.

Modern age is the age of science and technology. The world of today is very dynamic. The life of man in the primitive age was altogether different from his life in this sputnik age.

The Commission has realised that no nation can progress without a national feeling along with social feeling.

Important functions of educational technology are briefly explained here:

This Commission was appointed under the Chairmanship of Dr. Sri. S. Radhakrishnan. Experts from U.S.A. and U.K. were invited to serve on this Commission. A number of educationists of the country were also made its members.

After the achievement of Independence in 1947, the national leadership set on foot programmes of social and economic reconstruction. Education being the chief instrument of social change needed a revolution.

On the one side the Commission has given suggestions of far reaching importance for reforms of university education in the country, but on the other it has ignored many aspects which needed more attention.

The Commission has laid down certain aims of university education in the country keeping in view the past tradition, the present conditions and future prospects of the country.