Educational Technology in the Media

Introductory Resources

5 Top Trends in Educational Technology 2015 Aaron Skonnard Feb 3, 2015 Aaron Skonnard identifies tops trends for the coming year (2015) as online corporate training, employee skills measurement, addressing alternative learning styles, online competency-based training supporting corporate customers, and flipped-learning technologies. Skonnard, A. (2015). 5 Top Trends in Educational Technology 2015. Inc. Retrieved April 20, 2017 from: https://www.inc.com/aaron-skonnard/5-top-trends-in-education-technology-2015.html

A Population Approach to Educational Technology Joshua Kim Aug 10, 2015 Will the Educational Technology community go the way of the medical community with more specialization and local progress, but little impact of overall population health? Kim argues looking at the results of the overall population is the best way to keep Educational Technology on track. Kim, J. (2015). (web log) Population Approach to Higher Education. Inside HigherEd. Retrieved April 20, 2017 from: https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/population-approach-evaluating-educational-technology

The Government Wants You to Help Find Education Technology Tools that Actually Work Tony Wan Aug 24, 2015 Tony Wan reports on the U.S. Department of Education's RFP soliciting information about effective educational technology tools. The information will be used to conduct multiple studies of the schools and tools identified in the RFP. Wan, T. (2015). The Government Wants You to Help Find Education Technology Tools that Actually Work. EdSurge. Retrieved April 20, 2017 from: https://www.edsurge.com/news/2015-08-24-the-government-wants-you-to-help-find-education-technology-tools-that-actually-work