计算机专业英语原文,《计算机专业英语》第二章 英文原文

Chapter two

In 1972, in light of the changes happened in the field, Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT), as the

successor of Department of Audiovisual Instruction (DAVI), released a new definition, with defined the field as:

A field involved in the facilitation of human learning through the systematic identification, development, organization and utilization of a full range of learning resources and through the management of these processes.

After five years, in 1977, AECT released another definition. As an elaboration of the 1972 definition, the 1977 definition further expressed instructional technology as:

A complex, integrated process involving people, procedures, ideas, devices and organization for analyzing problems and devising,

implementing, evaluation and managing solutions to those problems involved in all aspects of human learning.

Besides the official definitions above mentioned, during the period, there were many professionals who proposed the definitions of this field personally and some of them were influential.