Technology
An online journal.
What is a blog?
Medium for distance and quarantine learning.
What is E-learning?
Twitter and social media saw a great influx of users.
What is 2009?
The most practical application of technology in education.
What are open textbooks?
One of the first "academies" to realize the potential of using simple video explanations to teach concepts, usually in place of or to supplement classroom lectures and learning.
What is Khan Academy?
Pioneered by HTML, has spread into broadcast and streaming.
What is video?
The natural successor of learning objects.
What are E-learning standards?
AI returns.
What is 2016?
Digital incentives often linked to MOOCs and online professional development courses.
What are digital badges?
Not a field for the impatient.
What is ed-tech (educational technology)?
Open-source software combined with educational resources (such as textbooks).
What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?
A cohesive place where learners could store artifacts to exhibit their learning growth.
What is an E-portfolio?
Crypto and blockchain became relevant and started getting more attention.
What is 2017?
Created when some educators (and learners) began to connect various ed-tech tools together.
What are personal learning environments (PLEs)?
A precursor to the Creative Commons Licence.
What is the Open Publication Licence (OPL)?
The encapsulation of the promise of a dynamic shared space (circa. 1990s).
What are wikis?
A collection of ed-tech tools meant to help e-learning being implemented in an efficient manner.
What is the learning management system (LMS)?
Data became the new bread and butter of the educational world.
What is 2014?
The rise of data in education.
What are learning analytics?
When ed-tech is sewn into a classroom seamlessly.
What is transparency?
A set of user-generated content technologies gathered together.
What is Web 2.0?
Reusable, editable educational goals often presented and modeled after functional code.
What are learning objects?
Massive open online courses (MOOCs) gained fame.
What is 2012?
The first internet-native learning theory.
What is connectivism?
Most significant E-learning standard.
What is SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model)?