Research Paper

In the ETEC511: Foundations of Educational Technology we explored the history of educational technology. This course helped me to make the connection with historical ways of thinking and historical use of educational technologies, such as the lecture or the pencil and current practises.

For the ETEC511: Foundations of Educational Technology course artifact I selected my research paper titled, “The Lecture: Is it Dead, or Dying, or Here to Stay?“, as an artifact. In this course we defined and explored what educational technologies actually are. Prior to this course, I did not think of things like, pencils, chalkboards, slates or the lecture as educational technologies. By the end of the course I learned a great deal about the history of educational technologies, and the ways advances in educational technologies have been made by “standing on the shoulders of giants”. In combination with ETEC 512, I was able to  understand the relationship between learning theories and the educational technologies within a historical context as well as with current practices.