At the dawn of the twenty first century, new and rapidly improving technologies are in the process of transforming higher education. Technology has the potential to revolutionize the traditional teaching and learning process. It can eliminate the barriers to education imposed by space and time and dramatically expand access to lifelong learning. Students no longer have to meet in the same place at the same time to learn together from an instructor. Fundamentally, modern technologies have the ability to change the conception of a higher education institution. No longer is a higher education institution necessarily a physical place with classrooms and residence halls where students come to pursue an advanced education. Distance education through satellite has made it possible to make access of education to most distant areas. In this regard The National Policy on Education, NPE 1986 has rightly emphasized on the function of educational technology that, “In order to avoid structural dualism, modern educational technology should reach out to the most distant areas and most deprived sections of beneficiaries simultaneously with the areas of comparative affluence and ready availability.”Educational technology is aimed at maximizing learning experiences and making teaching learning more effective and efficient. In the recent years there has been an explosion of knowledge and population. To meet the challenges of quantity and quality, it has been felt that educational technology is helpful in dealing with this situation, which this paper has highlighted.