History of Educational Technology

The educational technology field is almost disdainful of its own history. This is most unfortunate. We have much to be thankful for in the early innovators of the last century (and even beyond). Given the tremendously rapid pace of technology development today, I’m concerned that even the little history we have will vaporize. Which is why I’m quite excited about a new initiative with SCoPE, Richard Schwier, and the Learning Technologies Centre at the University of Manitoba: Building a Virtual Museum of Educational Technology. We all agree that museum is not the best word, but it will do for now. We are running a three week online seminar (Oct 1-21) devoted to the theme and planning ways that we can get a larger group involved. Please join in the conversation! Rick’s current master’s class will be tackling the museum as a project, but we’d love to get more classes, groups, or people involved. The recording of our first session is available.