Educational Technology Assignment: Research, LMS, and Tech Details

This assignment delves into the realm of educational technology, examining its impact on teaching strategies and student performance. It explores research methodologies, specifically focusing on article selection, initial screening, and full-text screening processes using databases like WorldCat and Google Scholar. The assignment also discusses Learning Management Systems (LMS), their functionalities, and various types such as cloud-based, self-hosted, desktop, and mobile applications. Furthermore, it presents five educational technologies introduced since the internet, including TutorRoom.net, Socrative, SelfCAD, Google Classroom, and GoFormative, providing their establishment years and links. The assignment adheres to the provided brief, answering questions about educational technology research, LMS experience, and the contribution of new technologies.

Running head: EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
Learning technologies
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Question 1:
Educational technology
According to research, the introduction of technology in educational field helps to
enhance the teaching strategies of educators as well as studying performance of students.
Therefore, Educational technology involves utilization of physical hardware as well as
software and also educational theory for facilitating the learning. The purpose of the
educational technology is to improve the performance of learning by using such proper
technological processes or resources.
Methodology of educational technology
Within this research paper, such unique methodology has been used to conduct the
educational technology. To continue the educational technology, the internet leads an
indispensable part which includes some methods like article selection, initial screening, full
text screening etc. In the article selection methodology, the WorldCat as well as Google
Scholar are considered as two main databases for finding the articles by which the students
can learn. The articles are found by utilizing the key words. In second phase, the initial
screening involves the collection of study materials including abstracts, methods as well as
results from various scholar articles for understanding the exact concept of the particular
topic. In full text screening phase, it involves to select the most relevant articles which are
matched with the concept of the topic. From those study materials of such selective articles, it
helps to improve the effectiveness of topic conception. In this way, the digital technologies
along with digital tools may introduce the educational technology in students’ study life.

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Question 2:
Learning management system
The learning management system comes from the concept of the e-learning. This
learning management system relates with a software by which it can track online training.
However, the training materials can be uploaded in this software so that the participants can
easily access all of the materials and moreover, the students can login this software with id
and password to access the training materials. This system can be majorly used in most of the
educational institutions or corporations. But some of the cases, this software can be sued by
several business organizations for providing the training materials to the sales channels as
well as franchisees and also customers by integrating CRM with this software. According to
learning management system, there exists several options like cloud based (SaaS), self-
hosted, desktop application and also mobile application. From this system, it can enhance the
online training process and also track the training progress or performance.
Question 3:
Types of educational technologies
It contains 5 different educational technologies which are provided in below:
[1] TUTORROOM.NET: This learning tool helps to enhance a huge learning
experiences. This software integrates various tools along with video as well as
messaging and also whiteboard tools etc. for enhancing the virtual learning system.
Link of software: https://tutorroom.net
Establishment year: 1991.
[2] SOCRATIVE: This software helps to make a platform for connecting the teachers
with students who engage with the studies. In this software, there exists various tests
which can help to increase the learning progress of the students.

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Link of software: https://socrative.com
Establishment year: 2011.
[3] SELFCAD: This software comprises the cloud based programming for 3D modelling
or printing by which the students can understand the 3D configuration of any models.
Link of software: https://www.selfcad.com
Establishment year: The designation of this software was completed by Aaron
Breuer in the year of 2015 but launched in 2016.
[4] GOOGLE CLASSROOM: It is also network oriented social devices utilized in
learning. It offers a system for posting questions to obtain answers from the educators.
Link of software: https://edu.google.com/products/classroom/?modal_active=none
Establishment year: The announcement of this network was held on 6th May in the
year of 2014 but publicly released on 12th August, 2014.
[5] GOFORMATIVE: It is considered as a virtual software which is also utilized by
classroom instructors.
Link of software: https://goformative.com
Establishment year: 2013.

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Bibliography
Delgado, A.J., Wardlow, L., McKnight, K. and O’Malley, K., 2015. Educational technology:
A review of the integration, resources, and effectiveness of technology in k-12
classrooms. Journal of Information Technology Education, 14.