Reflections on the 2008 AECT Definitions of the Field

The Board of Directors of the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) has approved a new definition of the field. This is the fifth officially endorsed definition of the field, replacing the one approved in 1994. The new definition is: Educational Technology is the study and...

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