Unit 1 A4: History of Online Learning

Unit 1 A4: History of Online Learning

I have spent a few hours on this research and not because I wished to overdo it, but it was fascinating and interesting… I found several names for distance education. First and second-generation distance education was mostly referred to as: Correspondence...
Unit 1 A3: The Years of EdTech – Relevancy from the Past

Unit 1 A3: The Years of EdTech – Relevancy from the Past

The Reiser (2001) articles were an excellent overview of the history of instructional design and technology, and I appreciated the comprehensive definition of the field. Weller (2018) mentioned Audrey Watters from Hack Education (as well as she was on the reading...
Unit 1 A2: History of the Field…

Unit 1 A2: History of the Field…

Educational technology has been around for a long time. How far do we have to go back? I asked my students yesterday, to define educational technology, and even though I have adult students, they all related instructional technology to laptops, mobile devices, video,...