After reading the first third of\u00a025 Years of Ed Tech<\/em>\u00a0(Weller, 2020), I was surprised that the web was relevant in education in 1995. Even more shocking was that HTML coding was also emerging at the time. In high school in 2006, I learned to write HTML in Communications Technology class using a web development tool called\u00a0DreamWeaver<\/em>. I was surprised when Weller mentioned that the web-publishing tool\u00a0FrontPage<\/em>\u00a0was developed in 1996 and offered templates to build websites. Never mind that I thought\u00a0DreamWeaver<\/em>\u00a0was an advanced digital tool in 2006; there were already tools like this ten years earlier. Weller (2020) states that \u201cthe uploading of publications to your own website marked the beginning of consideration about the dissemination of knowledge\u201d (p. 18). This stood out to me because of the\u00a0WebPress<\/em>\u00a0sites we use in the MALAT program to publish our academic blogs. The idea of using a digital platform to share your knowledge and learn from what others share feels like a newer concept for me as a student. <\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although e-learning was relevant in education in 1999, it was defined differently then. Initially, the definition widely applied to any use of electronic media in education, but slowly the emphasis was on online delivery (Weller, 2020). Weller explains that most of the criticism of e-learning at he time was due to the belief that face-to-face learning was the only effective method of education. In addition, they stated, \u201cthe focus of such criticisms was often on the life of the academic and overlooked the social function of distance, open, and flexible learning options\u201d (Weller, 2020, p. 44). E-learning is so valuable in today\u2019s world due to its flexibility, and is why I can be a graduate student while continuing to work in my career.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n References<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Weller, M. (2020). 25 years of ed tech<\/em>. Athabasca University Press. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.15215\/aupress\/9781771993050.01<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" After reading the first third of\u00a025 Years of Ed Tech\u00a0(Weller, 2020), I was surprised that the web was relevant in education in 1995. Even more shocking was that HTML coding was also emerging at the time. In high school in… Continue Reading →<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt523"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0265\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}