25 Years of Ed Tech
25 Years of Ed Tech is a serialized audio version of the book 25 Years of Ed Tech, written by Martin Weller of the Open University and published by AU Press. The audio version of the book is a collaborative project with a global community of volunteers contributing their voices to narrate a chapter of the book. Bonus episodes are a series of conversations called "Between the Chapters" to chat about these topics and more!
"In this lively and approachable volume based on his popular blog series, Martin Weller demonstrates a rich history of innovation and effective implementation of ed tech across higher education. From Bulletin Board Systems to blockchain, Weller follows the trajectory of education by focusing each chapter on a technology, theory, or concept that has influenced each year since 1994. Calling for both caution and enthusiasm, Weller advocates for a critical and research-based approach to new technologies, particularly in light of disinformation, the impact of social media on politics, and data surveillance trends. A concise and necessary retrospective, this book will be valuable to educators, ed tech practitioners, and higher education administrators, as well as students."
Credits:
Text in quotes from the book website published by Athabasca University Press CC-BY-NC-ND
BG music Abstract Corporate by Gribsound released under a CC-BY license. Track was edited for time.
Artwork X-Ray Specs by @visualthinkery is licenced under CC-BY-SA.
Audio book chapters produced by Clint Lalonde.
Between the Chapters bonus podcast episodes produced by Laura Pasquini.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 28 minutes
- Episodes
- 60
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2021
Thank you @OpenEdGlobal for the #OEAward2021 for the @YearsEd Project!
A huge thank you to the OE Global community for awarding our project a 2021 Open Education Award of Excellence for Reuse/ Remix/ Adaptation. for the 25 Years of EdTech: The Serialized Audio Version. …
Between the Chapters: Retrospective - THE END!
This 25 Years of Ed Tech Audio Project has been a blast! Thanks to all of the community:
- Readers of the chapters
- Guests for the "Between the Chapters" book club episodes
- The community of listeners
- Martin…
Conclusions: Reclaiming Ed Tech
Having surveyed one particular take on 25 years of ed tech, it is now possible to synthesize some generalities. In this chapter, several themes arising from the analysis of this history will be propo…
Between the Chapters #25: searching for the commons in the wasteland with @savasavasava & @audreywatters
For Between the Chapters episode, Laura is in conversation with Audrey Watters and sava saheli singh to navigate these troubling waters of educational technology. This episode swirls around the ed te…
Chapter 25: 2018 Ed Tech's Dystopian Turn
For this final year of the 25, a trend rather than a technology is the focus. There is in much of ed tech a growing divide, particularly in evidence at conferences. One camp is largely uncritical, se…
Between the Chapters #24: beyond the blockchain buzz with @dkernohan
For this Between the Chapter episode, Laura chats with David Kernohan about the blockchain and other odd things happening around the year 2017: Chapter 24. This episode will not explain what the bloc…
BONUS: #OERxDomains21 Panel: OER & the @YearsEd Project
In contemporary journalism, if a news story is described as “having legs” it means it has the ability to evolve and remain relevant over a long period of time to a wide community. This concept of “ha…
Chapter 24: 2017 Blockchain
Of all the technologies covered in this book, blockchain is perhaps the most perplexing, both in how it works and in terms of its purpose in education. I include it because it received a lot of atten…
Between the Chapters #23 looking in the black box of A.I. with @hypervisible
In this episode of Between the Chapters, Laura chats with Chris Gilliard about artificial intelligence (A.I.) in educational technology from Chapter 23 of Martin’s book. If you don’t follow the proli…
Chapter 23: 2016 The Return of Artificial Intelliegence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is an interesting case study in ed tech, combining several themes that have already arisen in this book: promise versus reality, the cyclical nature of ed tech, and the i…
Between the Chapters #22 open credentials & digital badges with @catspyjamasnz
For this Between the Chapters episode, Laura chats with Joyce Seitzinger about all things badged connected to Chapter 22: Digital Badges. In reflecting back to 2015, we have much to say about microcr…
Chapter 22: 2015 Digital Badges
Digital badges are a good example of how ed tech evolves when several other technologies, such as those that we have seen in this book, make the environment favourable for their implementation. Badge…
Between the Chapters #21 analyzing the metrics & data in learning with @ammienoot & @dgasevic
For Between the Chapters episode for Chapter #21 (2014), Laura is joined by Anne-Marie Scott and Dragan Gašević to talk about learning analytics (LA). This conversation outlines a definition of LA, i…
Chapter 21: 2014 Learning Analytics
Data, data, data. It’s the new oil and the new driver of capitalism, war, and politics, so inevitably its role in education would come to the fore. Interest in analytics is driven by the increased am…
Between the Chapters #20 opening up a textbook & more access to learning with @acoolidge
In this episode of @YearsEd Between the Chapters, Laura chats with Amanda Coolidge about open educational resources (OERs) and the open textbooks. Listen to this book club chat about Chapter 20 (2013…
Chapter 20: 2013 Open Textbooks
If MOOC were the glamorous side of open education, claiming all the headlines and sweeping predictions, then open textbooks were the practical, even dowdy, application. An extension of the OER moveme…
Between the Chapters #19 more about MOOCs with @sukainaw, @davecormier & @RMoeJo
For this episode of @YearsEd Between the Chapters, Laura chats about almost everything related to the acronym MOOC: Massive Open Online Course with Sukaina Walji, Dave Cormier, and Rolin Moe. We dive…
Chapter 19: 2012 MOOC
Inevitably, the selection for 2012 is massive open online courses, or MOOC, with The New York Times declaring it “the year of the MOOC” (Pappano, 2012). We have looked at the roots of MOOC in the exp…
Between the Chapters #18 @vconnecting with @rjhogue, @bali_maha, @autumm, @friedelitis & @hj_dewaard
In this Between the Chapters episode, Laura talks to the co-directors of Virtually Connecting -- Maha Bali, Autumm Caines, Helen DeWaard, Christian Friedrich, and Rebecca Hogue about all the things r…
Chapter 18: 2011 Personal Learning Environments
Personal Learning Environments (PLE) were an outcome of the proliferation of services that suddenly became available following the Web 2.0 boom, combined with the thinking around distributed learning…