AECT 2014 Conference, Jacksonville, FL., Nov 2014

Emerging Technologies or Emerging Practices?

George Veletsianos, PhD Canada Research Chair in Innovative Learning & Technology

Associate Professor School of Education and Technology Royal Roads University, Victoria, BC

What are Emerging Technologies?

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What makes a technology “emerging” is the context in which that particular technology operates.

Practices are also “emerging” (e.g., Networked Participatory Scholarship – Veletsianos & Kimmons, 2012)

In 2009 I was editing a book…

Distinguish between practices and technologies.

Emerging technologies vs. emerging

practices. What are their characteristics?

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“Emerging” technologies/practices share four (contextual) characteristics: •  Not defined by newness (e.g., open source

LMS, virtual worlds, scholarly blogging) •  Evolving  (e.g., Twitter, openness) •  Not-yetness (e.g., open courses) •  Unfulfilled but promising potential

Characteristics of Emergence

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References Veletsianos, G. (2010). A Definition of Emerging Technologies for

Education. In G. Veletsianos (Ed.), Emerging Technologies in Distance Education (pp. 3-22). Edmonton, AB: Athabasca University Press.

Veletsianos, G. & Kimmons, R. (2012). Networked Participatory

Scholarship: Emergent Techno-Cultural Pressures Toward Open and Digital Scholarship in Online Networks. Computers & Education, 58(2), 766-774.