2000: Learning Objects
A concept seen as arising from programming.
What is E-learning?
A fun site to upload videos and watch cats doing cute things.
What is YouTube?
Although there was an upsurge in popularity in 2007, Second Life was released prior in this year.
What is 2003?
This app with a blue bird logo was founded in this year.
What is 2006?
"the integration of principles explored by chaos, network, and complexity and self-organization theories. Learning is a process that occurs within nebulous environments of shifting core elements—not entirely under the control of the individual."
What is connectivism?
"A digitized entity which can be used, reused or referenced during technology supported learning."
What is a learning object?
Illustrates, simple video explanations of key concepts—explanations that can be shared and embedded easily—met a great educational demand.
What is the success of Khan Acadamy?
Second life recreated these to get students excited and make attendance/ grades go up.
What is an online lecture?
Although Twitter was known for its fun and ability to share your day tweet by tweet with people back in the day, it is known more for this in its most recent years.
What is a political platform?
Connectivism, the first internet learning theory, was proposed in these two years.
What is 2004-2005?
An animated map to show the route of Spanish explorers to a classroom.
What is an example of a learning object?
This began the sharing and broadcasting of videos before YouTube came along.
What is HTML?
Many students felt an aversion to this and weren't able to shake the label of this for online games.
What is nerdy?
These two things exist simultaneously regarding social media and its effect on education.
What is positive and negative?
These two academics and philosophical men created the connectivism theory.
Who are George Siemens and Stephen Downes?
"If some educational content, such as a description of sine wave functions, is available online, then it is available worldwide."
What did Stephen Downes argue?
In the arts, video education was more common. But in this year, text was still the dominant form of communication in education.
What is 2018?
This audience or group was targeted most when trying to implement virtual worlds into education.
What are college students?
Meaning that formal academic status was not significant, since users were judged on the value of their contributions to the network.
What is democratization effect?
A course of study made available over the internet without charge to a very large number of people.
What are MOOCs?