Technology
The Structure of Education
Chronology
Changes in Pedagogy
Impact
100

An online journal.

What is a blog?

100

Medium for distance and quarantine learning.

What is E-learning?

100

Twitter and social media saw a great influx of users.

What is 2009?

100

The most practical application of technology in education.

What are open textbooks?

100

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?

200

Pioneered by HTML, has spread into broadcast and streaming. 

What is video?

200

The natural successor of learning objects. 

What are E-learning standards?

200

AI returns. 

What is 2016?

200

Digital incentives often linked to MOOCs and online professional development courses.

What are digital badges?

200

Not a field for the impatient.

What is ed-tech (educational technology)?

300

Open-source software combined with educational resources (such as textbooks).

What are Open Educational Resources (OERs)?

300

A cohesive place where learners could store artifacts to exhibit their learning growth.

What is an E-portfolio?

300

Crypto and blockchain became relevant and started getting more attention. 

What is 2017?

300

Created when some educators (and learners) began to connect various ed-tech tools together. 

What are personal learning environments (PLEs)?

300

A precursor to the Creative Commons Licence.

What is the Open Publication Licence (OPL)?

400

The encapsulation of the promise of a dynamic shared space (circa. 1990s).  

What are wikis?

400

A collection of ed-tech tools meant to help e-learning being implemented in an efficient manner. 

What is the learning management system (LMS)?

400

Data became the new bread and butter of the educational world.

What is 2014?

400

The rise of data in education.

What are learning analytics?

400

When ed-tech is sewn into a classroom seamlessly.

What is transparency?

500

A set of user-generated content technologies gathered together.

What is Web 2.0?

500

Reusable, editable educational goals often presented and modeled after functional code.

What are learning objects? 

500

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) gained fame.

What is 2012?

500

The first internet-native learning theory.

What is connectivism?

500

Most significant E-learning standard.

What is SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model)?