Educational technology and the social sciences in the University of Malaya

✍ Scribed by David M. Tow; John Arul Phillips

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1982
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 710 KB
• Volume: 11
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0018-1560
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00139782

✦ Synopsis

This paper examines the role played by educational technology in the four social science faculties of the University of Malaya. Some explanation of what is meant by educational technology is first given. This involves considering three approaches to educational technology found in the literature and these provide a convenient frame of reference for examining the situation in the four faculties. The prevailing conception of educational technology in the faculties is the least developed and least comprehensive of the three approaches. Reasons are advanced for changing the existing situation in order to improve the quality of teaching and learning. Recommendations in this direction are made and it is suggested that they are applicable not only to the University of Malaya but similar institutions of higher education as well.