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Kassidy Hetzel


 * Definition Concept || Learning Community Expert || Definition ||
 * Facilitating Learning, Chapter 2 ||  ||  ||
 * 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). || Chapter 4 ||  || ||
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 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Using, Chapter 5 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Kassidy Hetzel || <span style="display: block; 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="display: block; 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="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Resources, Chapter 8 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> || ||
 * <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Ethical Considerations, Chapter 11 || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;"> || <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">. ||

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">References: <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Houghton Mifflin,. (2009). The Free dictionary. Retrieved from []

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">Houghton Mifflin, Initials. (2009). The Free dictionary. Retrieved from []

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