Educational technology encompasses computer hardware, software, along with educational theories and practices, used to facilitate learning and teaching. When referred to by its abbreviation, "EdTech,"
A student using an interactive whiteboard
Early 20th-century abacus used in a Danish elementary school
19th-century classroom, Auckland
Distance education, also known as distance learning, is the education of students who may not always be physically present at school, or where the learner and the teacher are separated in both time an
Somerset House, home of the University of London from 1837 to 1870
William Rainey Harper encouraged the development of external university courses at the new University of Chicago in the 1890s.
Walton Hall, renovated in 1970 to act as the headquarters of the newly established Open University (artist: Hilary French)