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A research Agenda for Emerging Technologies in Education
George Veletsianos, PhDLecturer of Digital technologies + Education
University of Manchester
Agenda: A list of items & issues to attend to
What are emerging technologies?
Emerging technologies are tools, concepts, innovations, and advancements.
From Veletsianos (2010). A Definition of Emerging Technologies for Education. To appear in Emerging Technologies in Distance Education published by AU PressSee: http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dfwk8tzf_316fsmbzjc9
1. May or may not be new technologies, 2. Evolving organisms that exist in a state of “coming into
being” 3. Experience hype cycles 4. Satisfy the “not yet” criteria of not yet being fully understood, and
not yet being fully research or research in a mature way
5. Potentially disruptive, but their potential is mostly unfulfilled.
What is possible? What can be achieved?
E x p e r i m e n t
Context (or, Emergence is not Emergence)
Emergent theory implications for education
Experiment
Context
Emergence
George Veletsianoshttp://www.veletsianos.comveletsianos @ gmail.com
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