Presenting a comprehensive view of the field, this award-winning overview of educational technology discusses such topics as instructional design and systems, computer applications in education and training, research and evaluation in instructional technology, future prospects for instructional technology, and professional development.

The only book to present a comprehensive view of the field, this award-winning overview of educational technology has been updated to cover current issues and trends. Contributors discuss instructional design and systems, computer applications in education and training, research and evaluation in instructional technology, future prospects for instructional technology, and professional development. New to this edition are chapters that address such current topics as educational and instructional systems development, post-modernism and instructional technology, interactive technologies, the Internet and higher education, qualitative research, and instructional technology and attitude change.

Preface
Contributors
Part 1: The Field: History and Overview
Chapter 1: Education Technlogy: A Question of Meaning
Chapter 2: A Brief History of Instructional Development
Part 2: Critical Issues
Chapter 3: Educational Technology in the 1990s
Chapter 4: Trends in Educational Technology 1991
Chapter 5: The Proper Study of Instructional Technology
Chapter 6: Educational Systems Development and Its Relationship to ISD
Chapter 7: Instructional Technology and Unforeseen Value Conflicts: Toward a Critique
Chapter 8: Theory into Practice: How Do We Link?
Chapter 9: Six Postmodernisms in Search of an Author
Chapter 10: Issues in Emerging Interactive Technologies
Part 3: Instructional Development
Chapter 11: Instructional Systems Design: Five Views of the Field
Chapter 12: Instructional Plans and Situated Learning: The Challenge of Suchman's Theory of Situated Action for Instructional Designers and Instructional Systems
Chapter 13: A Comparative Analysis of Models of Instructional Design
Chapter 14: Needs Analysis
Chapter 15: Analysis of Task Analysis Procedures
Chapter 16: Applications of Research to the Design of Computer-Based Instruction
Chapter 17: Message Design: Issues and Trends
Chapter 18: "Flawless" Consulting for the External Consultant
Chapter 19: "Murphy's Law Strikes Again and Again and Again and..."
Chapter 20: The School Library Media Specialist's Role in Instructional Design: Past, Present, and Future
Part 4: State of the Art, Applications, and Future Prospects
Chapter 21: Instructional Technology and Public Education in the United States: The Next Decade
Chapter 22: The Internet in Higher Education
Chapter 23: Applications of Educational Technology: The International Perspective
Chapter 24: Diffusion and Adoption of Instructional Technology
Chapter 25: Distance Education in the Next Decade
Chapter 26: The State of the Art of Instructional Television
Chapter 27: Instructional Media Production
Part 5: Research and Evaluation
Chapter 28: The Status and Future of Reserach in Instructional Design and Technology Revised
Chapter 29: Paradigms for Research in Instructional Systems
Chapter 30: Qualitative Research - A Chase for Case Studies
Chapter 31: Inquiry in Instructional Design and Technology: Getting Started
Chapter 32: Research on Instructional Media, 1978-1988
Chapter 33: Instructional Technology and Attitude Change
Chapter 34: What We Know (and What We Don't Know) About Training of Cognitive Strategies for Technical Problem-Solving
Chapter 35: Evaluation: A General View
Part 6: Certification and Professional Development
Chapter 36: Professional Competencies and Certification in the Instructional Technology Field
Chapter 37: Employment Profiles and Compensation for Educational Technologies, 1983-1986
Chapter 38: Professional Publications and Organizations in Instructional Technology and Related Fields
Index