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The main purpose of this study is to acquire an idea about the attitudes of the teacher educators towards educational technology. The model of this study was based on general survey and the sample size consisted of 150 teacher educators. The sample was chosen carefully so as to be representative of the population. The researcher selected 150 teacher educators (75 male and 75 female) from 10 colleges of education. One of the major findings of the study was that the teachers have a favourable attitude towards educational technology and there was no significant difference according to the sex variable.
Keywords: Attitude, Educational technology, Teacher educators
1. Introduction
Attitude or the way you think and feel about someone or something plays an important role in determining people reactions to situations. An attitude can be defined as a positive or negative evaluation of people, objects, events, activities, ideas, or just about anything in our environment. Eagly and Chaiken (1998) defines attitude as, 'A psychological tendency that is expressed by evaluating a particular entity with some degree of favour or disfavour'. Though it is sometimes common to define an attitude as affect toward an object, affect (that is, discrete emotions or overall arousal) is generally understood to be distinct from attitude as a measure of favourability. This definition of attitude allows for one's evaluation of attitude to vary from extremely negative to extremely positive, but also admits that people can also be conflicted or ambivalent toward an object meaning that they might at different times express both positive and negative attitude towards the same object.
It is very difficult to communicate information/education without technology.
Therefore, educational technology is a system in education wherein machines, materials, media, men and methods are interrelated and work together for the fulfillment of specific educational objectives. 'Technology explosion' has yielded several new machines, educational enterprises. A judicious use of these together with new functions and roles of educational personnel can bring about a more efficient and effective teaching-learning process. An adequate knowledge of theory and practices of educational technology and their proper use would enable the teacher to understand and effectively discharge his new roles in the educational system in an age of information explosion, knowledge explosion, population explosion and...