History of Technology and Learning Design in the 21st Century

  • Designed based research and evolution in learning theory

    Web 2.0 - beginnings of technology and use of blogs, Wiki, Youtube, etc.
  • Using Technology to Improve Training Opportunities for Federal Government Employees

    President Clinton's Executive order - provides the standards for leadership regarding training material. Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) (limiting duplication of materials)
  • Period: to

    Learning Design in the 21st Century

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) announced its OpenCourseWare

    This made the course available to MIT students/teachers and non students/non teachers.
  • Creative Commons organization and licenses

  • Design-based Research Collective

    Published an article regarding the need for design based research.
    • design driven -real world context -collaboration -theory building -Practice and Productive
  • 3rd version of SCORM

    Three Components:
    -content packaging
    -runtime communications
    -course metadata
  • One Laptop per Child - nonprofit

    The goal of this initiative was to distribute devices to students in the developing world . Also including software and content for those devices
  • Debut of iPhone

  • Learning Experience Design

    Niels Floor Tried to show the change of learning design.
    -Human Centered
    -Goal Oriented
  • Stephen Downes and George Siemens launched a course on Connectivism and Connectivity Knowledge

    25 students attended this course in person, but over 2000 students were able to attend globally. This was named the Massive Open Online
    Course.
  • First version of the UDL guidelines framework

    Engagement
    Representation
    Action/Expression
  • Period: to

    2010 - 2020 - Technology Advancing

    More personalized learning
    Open Education
    Mobile Learning
    Emergency Remote Teaching
  • Year of the MOOC

    (Massive Online Open Course)
  • Society for Learning Analytics Research Established

    This team investigated the challenges of collecting, reporting, and analyzing data related to student success.
  • 5 Rs

    Guidelines for EDtech books! reused
    revised
    remixed
    redistributed
    retained
  • Alexa Voice Assistant Debut

  • EdTech Books created

    Royce Kimmons - created this as a free open textbook/journal platform
  • COVID 19

    World-wide Pandemic. Caused many schools to close resulting in teachers to create online learning for students K-12.
  • Google - Live Transcribe Debut