A research Agenda for Emerging Technologies in Education George Veletsianos, PhD Lecturer 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 Press See: http:// docs.google.com/Doc?id =dfwk8tzf_316fsmbzjc9 May or may not be new technologies, Evolving organisms that exist in a state of “coming into being” Experience hype cycles 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.

May or may not be new technologies,

Evolving organisms that exist in a state of “coming into being”

Experience hype cycles

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 Veletsianos http://www.veletsianos.com veletsianos @ gmail.com

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