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eLearning standards established
With e-learning gaining in popularity, platforms began popping up to run these programs. It soon became clear that there needed to be some standards established. E-learning standards were used to establish best practices in regard to creating content, making assessments, building and developing courses and designing the best e-learning experiences. -
Open Educational Resources (OER)
The goal of the OER movement is to provide the ability to openly and freely share learning materials. An example includes MIT’s effort to make all 1,800 courses they offer available on the internet - not just available, but free and with permission to reuse their content by others. OER allows educators to openly have access to a vast array of samples of instructional design, lessons, content and items. -
Web 2.0
“Web 2.0” to define the next generation of internet possibilities after the 2001 dot-com bubble burst. Companies developed the Web 2.0 dichotomy as a marketing tool, which, in turn, produced consumer-driven applications such as Myspace and Napster; the overarching result was the mass introduction of open, user-friendly, and free of cost technology that would eventually give way to further evolutionary internet mini-eras, as well as pave the road for Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos. -
Virtual Worlds
Second Life first launched in 2003, offered online virtual worlds that users could explore and it began to see a rise in popularity in 2007. Various post-secondary institutions use Second Life to host some of their courses in virtual worlds but that did not last long term. Even though the implementation of virtual worlds in education did not work out then, Second Life and other virtual worlds continue to exist and could comeback now that virtual worlds in video games have become so popular. -
MySpace
Myspace was the social media website that defined and dominated social media in the early 2000’s and that paved the way for Facebook. It allowed people to interact directly with one another, a feature that became standard for all social media platforms. It also allowed artists to promote their work more directly and became a major medium for publicity with celebrities. -
Gmail
The launch of Gmail in 2004 had a significant impact on education. It became popular with many internet users due to the better options that Gmail offered compared to other popular email providers like Yahoo and MSN. Some of those features included much more free storage which allowed people to store years’ worth of emails and file attachments, making it easier for people to use their email as a convenient way to transfer files. -
Learning Management System (LMS)
LMSs allowed for the integration of a variety of e-learning tools into one single online location. This allowed instructional design for a course to utilize a variety of tools, while being able to organize them all in one location for the learner to access. -
Global Sustainability of Open Educational Resources (OER)
The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) commissions David Wiley of Utah State University to prepare, submit, and present a report on the benefits and support of OER as part of UN’s global education initiative (1 of 8 Millennium Development Goals established in 2000). Backed by the 2002 UNESCO summit on OER, defining it as “technology-enabled, open provision of educational resources for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for non-commercial purposes” -
Learning Management Systems (LMS)
Researchers use the Australian higher education system as a pioneer in outlining, describing, and supporting a recently developed technology referred to as the Learning Management System, an online platform with an original intent to replicate classroom teaching and learning at a distance. -
YouTube
YouTube rose to popularity after users began posting and watching videos from television shows, such as “Saturday Night Live”. They brought in a massive audience to YouTube that then began to grow with individuals making and posting their own videos. YouTube was not immediately used in educational settings, but it would later begin to be used after educational content on the platform grew larger. -
Chris Dede
Educational Researcher and professor in learning technologies. of the Harvard Graduate School of Education developed a framework based on new digital literacies. Was a major voice in developing 21st century literacy concepts. His writing and work were major influence on the ISTE standards for educators is 2008
in 2005 Led a writing team who to publish:
Transforming learning for the 21st century: An economic imperative -
Punya Mishra & Matthew J. Koehler
Create the TPACK framework "which has been described as being the most significant advancement in the area of technology integration in the past 25 years.” A significant development in technology education, advancing our understanding of how technology is integrated into instruction. Provided a model to understanding the relationships between "technology, pedagogy, and content, in specific contexts” Had a substantial impact on the development of the ISTE standards for educators is 2008 -
Richard E. Clark
Professor Emeritus of Educational Psychology and Technology at the USC Rossier School of Education. Dr. Clark contributed the pioneering idea that the methods by which students learn are paramount over the choice of media or delivery. In 2006, he co-authored research calling for instructional designers to focus on providing guidance during the learning process, which revolutionized the analysis of developing educational technology during this era. -
Kindle
Although ebooks had been around for many years, with the advent of the Kindle, Amazon transformed the publishing industry and how people access books. The kindle gives readers instant access to books, and Amazon helped push the industry to go digital and make many more ebook titles available. It also lowered risk of loss by publishing companies allowing them to invest in more of a variety of titles, as well as giving opportunities to authors to self-publish. -
Salman Khan
Salman Khan, often referred to as one of the most influential people in educational technology, introduces the world to Khan Academy. A non-profit online education program. The goal of Khan academy is to provide short lessons in the form of videos as well as provide practice exercises and materials for educators. -
iPhone
Steve Jobs famously said on stage at Macworld in 2007 when unveiling the first iPhone. “Are you getting it? These are not three separate devices. This is one device.” Although there were other early model “smart” phones, it was Apple that revolutionized the design, getting rid of fixed buttons to create adaptability to a variety of applications or “apps”