In this ever changing world we live in, we see that Egypt is
considered one of the countries that struggle with time in order to
enter the next century as being one of the developed countries in the world.
Accordingly, the only way of achieving that is through a broad and
comprehensive revolution towards developing and promoting education
that based on utilizing technology.
Hence, that promotion of the educational process is such a
national goal declared and adapted by the Egyptian president Mr.
Mohammed Hosni Mubarak, and his wife, the first lady Mrs. Susan Mubarak.
So, the faculty of education in Helwan University seeks to support
that promotion through preparing qualified graduates who are able to
deal with the recent technology and make use of it in schools, and
that is exactly the domain of the department of Educational Technology.
Educational technology department is such a unique one, as it serves
both the other departments in the faculty, and its field as well.
Generally it concerns with promoting education through designing and
producing new educational aids and media, as well as utilizing the
latest technology, communication theories and the educational
psychological theories in all fields of education .. that in turn
strengthens the concept of effective learning whether inside or
outside schools.
Moreover, this department seeks to train the student-teachers to
design and produce a wide variety of modern and useful educational
media aseptically that ones dedicated to special education of the
talented and handicapped students.
Also, it helps students to use projectors and modern sets beside
acquiring adequate and appropriate background of TV, Cassettes,
Computer, Broadcasting Systems, information Systems, &ldots;etc.
beside teaching them how to be maintained.
All that is taught and presented through a broad variety of courses
such as:-
introduction to educational media, computer sciences, libraries and
information sciences, Printing and Calligraphic sciences, media production.
1 - An approach to educational media .
2 - Photography ( Chemistry - production - usage ) .
3 - Printing , copying , and binding.
4 - Models, Museums, and exhibitions.
5 - Sets ( physics - electricity ).
6 - The bases of the selection and building of collections.
7 - Projectors ( operation, usage, and maintenance ).
8 - Micro forms ( operation and usage ).
9 - Computer Science and Information Systems .
10 - Broadcasting and Verbal recordings.
11 - Cinema and video filming .
Edcational Technology Department 
