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Amendment of 1984 Perkins Act
Perkins Act of 1984, which focused on preparing adults of job opportunities and improving workforce skills, and insuring equal opportunities therein. Disadvantaged and handicapped individuals were targeted service populations. The 2000 amendment was wide-ranging, allocating funds for research and development, bilingual vocational training, career guidance programs, partnerships with business, and the development of CTE data systems. -
John Seely Brown Symposium on Technology and Society
John Seely Brown is an active voice in the technology community, he has published multiple books discussing the effects of technology on society. The first JSB symposium was held in September, 2000.
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Wi-Fi becomes an option on laptops and other computer devices.
Wi-Fi allows multiple computers to connect to a hi-speed broadband link. Hotspots allow to users to access online content at any time and anywhere, allowing for workforce flexibility. Education also becomes mobile. (2004, June 10). A Brief History of Wi-Fi. Technology Quarterly: Q2, Retrieved from http://www.economist.com/node/2724397 Farmer, Leslie. Career and Technical Education Technology: Three Decades In Review and Technological Trends in the Future. -
Using Assistive Technology to help Students with learning disabilities Brief Summary
The development of technology has helped teachers aid students with special learning disabilities. For example technology helps teachers bridge the communication gap with speech to text software. Adebisi, Liman, and Longpore explain various methods to support the learning of students with special learning disabilities depending on the individual needs of the students. -
Integrating Technology in Teaching and Teacher Education
Important research on the importance of technology literacy, integrating technology into educational practices, and the impact it will have curriculum and policy reform. -
SETDA Established
State Educational Technology Directors Association is a not-for-profit membership association launched by state education agency leaders to serve, support and represent their emerging interests and needs with respect to the use of technology for teaching, learning, and school operations. -
Larry Cuban's Oversold and Underused
Research by Larry Cuban on the use, frequency, and level of appropriation of technology in the classroom. His research revealed technology was being sold as a transformative way to create a more student centered classroom, but only a small percentage of instructors were using it during class time or in a transformative way. -
ISLS Established
International Society of Learning Sciences is a professional society dedicated to the interdisciplinary empirical investigation of learning as it exists in real-world settings and to how learning may be facilitated both with and without technology. -
Google Books Library Project
Complimenting the Open Education Resource Movement, Google plans to create a universal library by scanning and digitizing almost every book ever written and making them available to the public online. More global networks of information are to be available to all. Howard, Jennifer. (2017, August 10). What Happened to Google's Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books?. https://www.edsurge.com/news/2017-08-10-what-happened-to-google-s-effort-to-scan-millions-of-university-library-books -
SICET Established
Society of International Chinese in Educational Technology supports the application of educational technology in China; promotes international connections and exchanges for Chinese scholars who study educational technology for teach and learning. -
Frustration in the Classroom
Despite having diverse tools to choose from, computers are used mainly for supplementary assignments, rewards and enrichment activities in the classroom. Many teachers feel they lack the training to incorporate technology in meaningful ways. Source: Cleborne, Maddux (2003) Twenty Years of Research in Information Technology in Education: Assessing Our Progress, 35-48. -
2003 Case Studies for Instructional Design
Case studies advance models of Instructional Design to assist creating various instructional design material for beginning instructional designers. -
Web 2.0 Summit; the Web is re-purposed
Web 2.0 allows internet consumers to become creators. Users can contribute content by uploading (YouTube), updating (Wikis), tagging (folksonomies), blogging, and using social media sites (MySpace, Facebook). A shift in technological pedagogy encourages students to participate, manipulate and create using tools made possible by Web 2.0. O'Reilly, Tim. (2005, September 30). What is Web 2.0?. Retrieved from http://www.oreilly.com/pub/a/web2/archive/what-is-web-20.html? -
2005 - Instruction using a Case Library
Jonassen explains that students are taught through the use of case libraries. Teachers attempted to integrate lessons with research database. However teachers and students do have trouble with the unfamiliarity of case library research learning activities in the classroom. -
Rise in Adaptive Educational Website
2006-2007 Teachers have increased access to a variety of new online resources that are adaptive and adjust to individual student needs. Programs like Dreambox, Grockit, and Khan academy are launched Link text -
Google Apps for Education
Google Apps for Education (G Suites) launched
G Suite is comprised of Gmail, Hangouts, Calendar, and Google+ for communication; Drive for storage; Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites for collaboration. Teachers begin exploring the potential of these resources in the classroom. Link text -
Social Media in Education
With the rise of social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, instructors have used social media to enrich the learning of students on a more personal level. For example, curriculum combines with the 21st century when instricution and social media are used to enriching course content, facilitating discussions outside of class, supporting collaborative group work, and creating/sustaining a community of learners. -
Research centered on Equity Pedagogy in Technology in Education
Research done on reconceptualizing equity and taking into account multicultural, social-economic factors which may contribute to inequity in the classroom. -
Educational Technology Definition Changed
Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) changed the definition of Educational Technology to "the study and ethical practice of facilitating learning and improving performance by creating, using, and managing appropriate technological processes and resources." -
Khan Academy
Salman Khan's popular Youtube lectures prompt him to create an online global academy. This online academy presents a series of tutoring lectures on a variety of academic subjects in 36 languages. The video lectures, designed to supplement traditional instruction, become instrumental in promoting the acceptance and expansion of online and "personalized" learning. https://www.khanacademy.org/about -
Online Class Instruction
Educational instruction is no longer limited to a classroom setting but has expanded to the cyberworld with online classes. Online classes allow education to be more accessible to students as they offer more flexibility, convenience, and opportunity than a traditional classroom setting. -
iNACOL Established
International Association for K-12 Online Learning is a nonprofit organization with the mission to catalyze the transformation of K-12 education policy and practice to advance powerful, personalized, learner-centered experiences through competency-based, blended and online learning. -
Digital Literacy Action Plan
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s signs the Information and Communication Digital Literacy Action Plan. This plan outlines the need to ensure that students become ¨digitally literate¨ which is the ability to successfully create and use technologies that foster the sharing, gathering and interpreting of information. Link text -
Student Engagement with Mobile Devices
With the increase of affordability and availability of mobile smart devices, more and more students have access to a computer in their pocket. Teachers can use this to their advantage as they can begin including more personal instruction and easier methods to communicate with their students -
2009 Research shows double in e-learning participants
Comparing data from 2000, with the advances of the Internet and accessibility, the internet led to a rapid increase in use of online instruction in business and industry, K-12, and higher education. The decade saw a double in increase in participants.
