The purpose of the SDSU Department of Educational Technology is to encourage wise use of systems, environments, tools, products, and strategies that can enhance human learning and competence. To these ends, the Department endeavors to:
• Prepare prospective educational practitioners, researchers, and leaders
to use theories of learning, communication, behavior, and organization
in concert with technologies to make tangible contributions valued by
our campus, our community, and our field.
• Understand diverse approaches for developing, representing, managing, and
disseminating human knowledge.
• Collaborate with schools, corporations, agencies, and community-based organizations
to design, develop, use, and evaluate learning and information systems.
• Appraise emerging technologies and experiment with promising innovations
that might lead to significant improvements in teaching and learning.
• Research, develop, and evaluate principles and methods for using technology
to benefit and empower individuals and organizations.
• Serve as a model for appropriate and innovative ways to use technology
to support cost-effective, high quality educational activities and programs.
• Maintain a climate of collegiality and collaboration that respects diverse
experiences and backgrounds while providing good opportunities for personal
and professional growth.
(Revised 8-21-2000)