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 Learning Online - The Student Experience by George Veletsianos

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The Rise of Educational Technology as a Sociocultural and Ideological Phenomenon 

The push for educational technology exists within a broader political, economic, ideological, and technological context. The all-too-common ignorance
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The rise of educational technology is part of a larger shift in political thought, from favoring government oversight to asserting free-market principles, as well as a response to the increasing costs of higher education.

 

The technocentric view that technology can solve these challenges combines with a vision of education as a product that can be packaged, automated, and delivered to students.

 

Unless greater collaborative efforts take place between edtech developers and the greater academic community, as well as more informed deep understandings of how learning and teaching actually occur, any efforts to make edtech education's silver bullet are doomed to fail.

Allesondra Sanchez's curator insight, April 16, 2018 2:51 PM
Inquiry Session 4: Technology