Early Days of Technology
A web page that can be edited by anyone.
What is a Wiki?
Virtual Learning Environments.
What are VLE's?
Simple video explanations of key concepts
What is Khan Academy?
Now described as a tool for wreaking political mayhem
What is Twitter?
The pencil and the laptop can be seen as two different types of this, used in the classroom
What is technology?
They claim theirs is a fast-changing field
Who are educational technology (ed tech) professionals?
Created in 2002, these became essential in the open-education movement.
What are Creative Commons Licenses?
This emerged from a simple version of "here's my online journal"
What are Blogs?
A place to store all the evidence a learner gathered to exhibit learning
What is an E Portfolio?
Like many other EdTech developments, these had an initial flurry of interest from devotees, then settled into a laborious long-term acceptance
What are Digital Badges?
What is a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC)
The body that set about to develop standards that would describe content, assessment tools, courses and more.
What is IP Multimedia Subsystem or IMS?
Founded in 2005, it became one of the biggest video sharing services.
What is YouTube?
An easy way to share your personal beliefs, reconnect with friends and family
What is Facebook?
A secure ledger for keeping the records that underpin Bitcoin
What is Blockchain?
A digitized entity which can be used, reused, or referenced during technology supported learning
What are Learning Objects?
An industry standard in specifying content that could be used in virtual learning environments.
What is SCORM?
This practical term is used to describe sources like YouTube, flickr, and blogs.
What is Web 2.0?
An outcome of the proliferation of services that suddenly became available following the Web 2.0 boom
What are Personal Learning Environments or PLE's?
A critic, who warned of the overreliance and trust in edtech in 2018
Who is Michael Caulfield?
Conventional and distance colleges were adopting this type of learning
What is E-Learning?
In 2001, MIT announced this initiative, making all learning materials available through the internet.
What is OpenCourseWare?
Minecraft and Pokemon GO are recent examples of this technology
What are Virtual Worlds?
Proposed by George Siemens and Stephen Downes in 2004-2005, lays claim to being the first internet-native learning theory.
What is Connectivism?
This gained a lot of attention in the 1980s and 1990s as possible intelligent tutoring systems
What is AI?