It is the result of practices in the different educational theories for the solution of a broad concept of problems, situational or complications in teaching and learning. By solving problems not with means or instruments in use, but by focusing on learning with a technology and not on technology, analyzing the contexts emphasizing the content, pedagogy and methodology with the type of learning with the students, leaving the design of the medium used is reflected in the philosophy of the program used through strategies promoting the development of the student as an individual.
When focusing on student learning, it takes into account a cognitive diversity towards a specific group, selecting the simplest and most available means that ensure a fair and universal complete access, determining the roles of each teacher, so that they are good facilitators with a organized orientation, to be able to cover all the elements of this system assisting both, teacher and students based on daily realities. The mission is to keep technological advances and developments within reach for a better educational quality, strengthening teaching and learning in the process.
The teacher or teacher has a primary role because he works from society to the context of a didactic process, reinforcing learning theory in a constructive way by mastering and teaching to master content and objectives in scope, evaluating the student's knowledge based on the characteristics of the group selecting the appropriate and favorable technology to obtain the desired result and achieve a progressive attitude. Its applications are diverse and based on qualifying the needs and the objectives to be pursued, making the educational quality more effective especially in the young people of the new era.
Educational technology was born in past centuries, in the decade of the 50s, going through various approaches and trends such as audiovisual, programmed, instructional technology being cryptic as in teaching itself. Despite what is believed by its name, it does not refer to the technological part of the operation of a machinery limiting itself; it is the incarnation of education in the study curriculum in a programming of rigid, closed and concrete concepts.
