You want to hold the attention of learners during lectures and presentations and appropriately use various media to enhance learning rather than just entertain.
Reflect Work Conditions
You want your learners to learn using the same tools, techniques and systems they will use in the workplace.
Education Technology Objectives
Remediation
You want to spend less class time on bringing everyone up to the same
level and on addressing general study skill issues, subject matter gaps and literacy problems.
Education Technology Objectives
Technical Training
You want learners to learn to use tools and systems that are not in themselves part of the curriculum by using self-paced, virtual and hands-on tutorials.
Customized Learning
You want use technology to match the teaching and learning methods and materials to be tailored to the individual knowledge, skills, learning styles and objectives of
each learner.
Education Technology Objectives
Diagnostic Model of Education
You want to use brain research, assessment, real time feedback and (if it becomes commonly available) physical indication of learning activity in the brain to know if a learner is in fact learning and responds accordingly.
Extended Learning
You want the exceptional and the motivated learners to go beyond what is required in the class or program and beyond what you have time to teach them.
Education Technology Objectives
Self-Directed Learners
You want learners who can and will learn on their own to be able to do so and receive credit for what they learn. You want to be able to spend more time being a mentor, motivator, creator, guide, evaluator and/or expert learner.
