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**Definition Concept** || **Learning Community Expert** || **Definition** || Facilitating Learning, Chapter 2 || Kristen Watt || Facilitated learning occurs when teachers help students learn. Teachers encourage, motivate, promote, assist, and support learning learning.

 Learning theories explain and describe how learning takes place. Bahaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism are all examples of learning theories.

 Instructional theories are specific theories that help educators create a specific learning environment or utilize an instructional strategy. || Improving Performance, Chapter 3 || Kassidy Hetzel || The main goal of improving performance in educational technology is to improve the performance of individual learners.

 To better understand this goal one must understand the definition of both improving and performance.

 Improving: to advance, to better, to progress (Houghton Mifflin, 2009).

 Performance: the act, process, manner, or quality of functioning accomplishments (Houghton Mifflin, 2009).

 With these definitions in mind the goal of improving performance within educational technology is to deepen levels of understanding and make new knowledge and skills more transferable leading to increased learning effectiveness for students (Januszewski A., Molenda, M, 2008). || Using, Chapter 5 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kassidy Hetzel || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Using… appropriate technological processes and resources is the end purpose for which the field of educational technology exists (Januszewski, A., Molenda, M, 2008). The definition of using educational technology revolves around a cycle.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The cycle of using educational technology begins with the selection of resources to be used, determining the resources usability of being easy to use for some purpose, developing the utilization and application of use of the resources, integrating the resource into the curriculum on a regular basis, the implementation of the resources into the curriculum because the potential for use was seen, supported and developed, and the diffusion of the resources through regular use by instructors and students to increase learning (Januszewski, A., Molenda, M, 2008). || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Managing, Chapter 6 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tia McMillan || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Managing “… means effectively orchestrating people, processes, physical infrastructure, and financial resources to achi​eve predetermined goals" (Januszewski & Molenda, 2005, p. 178).

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> While the function of managing is seen as orchestrating, Januszewski and Molenda (2005) also point out that there must be the existence of leadership.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The main areas that needs orchestration and leadership in regards to educational technology are projects, personnel, program, and resources (Januszewski & Molenda, 2005). || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Processes, Chapter 7 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kristen Watt || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Hard Technologies – physical products such as software, Internet, and mobile devices

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Soft Technologies – related to one’s ability to learn (processes of the brain)

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Assumptions of Learning

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Education is a process – learning occurs with specific outcomes in mind <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Technology can facilitate educational processes- technology used in a manner that supports learning theories and helps the educator deploy specific instruction theories

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Intentional learning environments are complex – learning occurs when instruction is thoughtful and designed around learning goals, and employs specific interactions with technology, as well as other learners

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Process – series of steps, actions, or procedures leading to an end product

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Process concept – series of activities surrounding a concept

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Process theory – procedural and declarative knowledge

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> Process practice – measure performance and learning in hopes of developing effective instructional practices || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Resources, Chapter 8 || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Tia McMillan || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Resources are the tools, materials, devices, settings, and people that are related to the learning process and the means to improve that process.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> The resources are called appropriate because of the level of thought that should be taken when selecting them, and they are called technological because of the combination of older (i.e. VCRs, overhead projectors) and the new tools, devices and materials that is used today. ||

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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">Januszewski, A., & Molenda, M. (Eds.). (2008). Educational technology: A definition with commentary. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 10pt;">New York, NY: Routledg e