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...
Sideline: Slack

Sideline: Slack

Preamble We all have been using Slack since the Link after I set it up for the cohort. I introduced Slack as the main communication channel for my program’s industry project course in May and will extend its use for all the courses in the program from the January...
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,...
Unit 3: Research Podcasts

Unit 3: Research Podcasts

Dr. Veletsianos picked three major topics from our long list of questions to address them in his podcasts. How does one keep up with the rapidly changing technology in the researches? I liked Dr. Veletsianos’s response when he described that technology change is a...