Educational Technology Questions and Answers

Answer: C

ADDIE is a guideline for building effective training and performance support tools.

ADDIE stands for its five phases, Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation and Evaluation. It is the generic instructional systems design model, and it is commonly described as a dynamic, flexible guideline for building effective training and performance support tools.

The other options alter the standard description. ADDIE is used for designing instruction and training, but 'teaching and counselling' falls outside its scope, and the established wording pairs training, not teaching or instruction, with performance support tools.

Answer: A

The portal is Shodhganga.

Shodhganga, hosted by the INFLIBNET Centre under UGC regulations of 2009 (revised 2016), is the national repository of Indian electronic theses and dissertations. Universities deposit their Ph.D. theses and M.Phil. dissertations there, and the full texts are openly accessible to the academic community worldwide.

Shodhgangotri holds synopses of research proposals approved for Ph.D., not completed theses. Shodhsindhu is a consortium providing access to e-journals and databases. e-PG Pathshala provides postgraduate e-content.

Answer: A

The one that is not an online survey tool is Google doc.

Google Docs is a word processor for creating and sharing documents. Google's survey tool is a different product, Google Forms; a document cannot collect and tabulate responses as a survey tool does.

Typeform and SurveyMonkey are dedicated online survey and form-building platforms. HubSpot, a customer relationship management platform, includes survey and feedback tools among its features. So the odd one out is Google Docs.

Answer: C

Techno-pedagogic competency is a set of skills for weaving technology into teaching and learning in a way that is both scientific and aesthetic, so the teacher uses technology in the process and not only as a subject. A science of using technology in teaching, a mere technique of combining two sets of principles, and a competence to develop systems are narrower or different descriptions. The fullest statement is option C.

Answer: D

Programmed learning, developed by B. F. Skinner, is based on operant conditioning: small steps, active response by the learner, immediate feedback acting as reinforcement and self-pacing. Classical conditioned learning, the cognitive theory and Gestalt theories are not the basis of it. The answer is operant conditioning. In a programme, the material is cut into small frames, the learner answers each frame, is told at once whether it is right and goes forward at his own speed. These features are the operant principles of reinforcement and shaping that Skinner applied, so the theories of Pavlov or the Gestalt school are not the basis.

Answer: D

The key takes both (A) and (B) as the description that best shows technology in teaching and learning. Option (B), a classroom provided with a PC and CCTV connections, plainly uses technology: the computer delivers content and the closed-circuit link carries lessons or monitoring. Option (A), a room decorated with pictures, charts and maps, is counted by the key as well, because charts and maps are traditional teaching aids and educational technology in the broad sense covers aids as well as machines. Option (C) fails because a power supply for gadgets only makes technology possible; it describes no teaching or learning use. Since (A) and (B) are both accepted, (D) is the key. A reader who takes technology to mean only electronic devices would pick (B) alone, so this item rests on the broad sense.

Answer: D

The teacher liked the most is the one who uses the film projector along with the proper use of the board, option (D). Such a teacher uses a modern audio-visual aid and also the blackboard, so that the lesson is both vivid and organised. Option (A) uses the motion picture only as a last resort, which shows reluctance to use aids. Option (B) uses only charts and maps. Option (C) uses the board only now and then. The combination of aid and regular board work gives the richest teaching.