Technology
Think weekly schedules, monthly schedules, lessons, and assessment planning among other things
What is a calendar?
It started in 1998, it requires a computer with hardware, software and the web to facilitate learning. Throughout the years different concepts of “Edtech” have evolved.
What is educational technology?
Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPCK), arguing that this complex type of knowledge is required for thoughtful pedagogical uses of technology.
What is TPACK and why is it important to educators?
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What is introduction discussion?
The study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources.
What is educational technology?
It had their own markup language, which made them a bit technical to use, although later implementations such as Wikispaces made the process easier.
What is Wikis?
It provided openly licensed versions of bespoke written textbooks, free for the digital version.
What is open textbooks?
Interest in analytics is driven by the increased amount of time that students spend in online learning environments, particularly LMSs and MOOCs.
What is learning analytics?
They represent a combination of key challenges for educational technology: realizing easy-to-use, scalable technology; developing social awareness that gives them currency; and providing the policy and support structures that make them valuable.
What are digital badges?
It was the focus of attention in education in the 1980s and 1990s with the possible development of intelligent tutoring systems.
What is AI?
It had been in use as a term for some time by 1999, but the rise of the web and the prefix of "e" to everything saw it come to prominence.
What is e-learning?
Learning objects, the software approach (in particular, open-source software) provides the roots.
What is OER?
It was founded in 2005, which seems surprisingly recent, so much has it become a part of the cultural landscape.
What is YouTube?
An outcome of the proliferation of services that suddenly became available following the web 2.0 boom.
What is Personal Learning Environments (PLEs)?
A phenomenon can be viewed as the combination of several preceding technologies: some of the open approach of OER, the application of video, the experimentation of connectivism, and the revolutionary hype of web 2.0.
What is MOOCs?
It's set the framework for the next decade in terms of technology, standards, and approaches—a period that represents, in some respects, the golden age of e-learning.
What is e-learning?
An interesting case study in edtech.
What is E-learning standards?
It has offered an enterprise solution for e-learning providers.
What is the learning management system (LMS)?
A place to store all the evidence a learner gathered to exhibit learning, both formal and informal, in order to support lifelong learning and career development.
What is e-portfolios?
Problem-based learning, and resource-based learning all saw renewed interest as educators sought to harness the possibility of abundant content and networked learners
What is connectivism?
E-learning was accompanied by new approaches, often derived from computer science.
What is learning objectives?
Defined as "a digitized entity which can be used, reused or referenced during technology supported learning."
What is a learning object?
Developed alongside the more education-specific developments and was then co-opted into edtech.
What is blogging?
Integrating into the mainstream the participatory culture that web 2.0 brought to the fore remains both a challenge and an opportunity for higher education.
What is web 2.0?
Founded in 2006, it had moved well beyond the tech-enthusiast bubble by 2009 but had yet to become what we know it as today: a tool for wreaking political mayhem.
What is Twitter?