{"id":7934,"date":"2013-09-08T20:47:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-09T03:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/?p=7934"},"modified":"2013-09-08T20:57:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T03:57:56","slug":"week-2-kickoff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/2013\/09\/08\/week-2-kickoff\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 2 Kickoff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to week 2 of ETEC 522.<\/p>\n<p>This week you&#8217;ll be immersing yourselves in the global marketplace for educational technologies and resources.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve assembled a small library of recent research reports and market projections related to emerging technology markets (these were used to populate the poll we just completed). \u00a0You&#8217;ll explore who the customers are for educational technologies and what a venture entails.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll select one\u00a0(1) of the reports from the small library, review it in sufficient detail to post a concise critical analysis of it in the ETEC522 course blog, focusing on the following general criteria:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>How, and how much, is it useful and valuable to the the broader community of educators, as well as learning technologies specialists and venturers?<\/p>\n<p>Do you expect to seek out future versions of this report to help drive your own professional success, and also to recommend it to others in this regard?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To wrap up week 2 you&#8217;ll publish your short critique to the course blog and tag it using the <strong>Week 02: The EdTech Marketplace<\/strong> category so that others can find, read and respond.\u00a0Beyond this posting, please review and provide constructive response where appropriate to the critical analyses posted by your classmates.<\/p>\n<p>If you would prefer to offer a critical analysis of a similar report that is not on the ETEC522 list, please consult with one of your instructors.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Please note &#8211;&gt;<\/strong> All critiques and responses should be posted by the end of week 2. \u00a0In order for your own critique to be responded to, it would be best to post it a few days ahead of the deadline if possible.<\/p>\n<p>dp<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to week 2 of ETEC 522. This week you&#8217;ll be immersing yourselves in the global marketplace for educational technologies and resources. We\u2019ve assembled a small library of recent research reports and market projections related to emerging technology markets (these were used to populate the poll we just completed). \u00a0You&#8217;ll explore who the customers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7934"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7944,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7934\/revisions\/7944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522sept13\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}