2013-14 Ed Tech Trends

Group Members

List of work emails for easy copy/paste: 

csoran@tacomacc.edu;stephanie.delaney@seattlecolleges.edu;ebachmann@pierce.ctc.edu;

aindrunas@everettcc.edu;sbaxter@pencol.edu;suzanne.friedman@lwtech.edu;Vanessa.Scee@skagit.edu;bcummings@bates.ctc.edu, bcummings@bates.ctc.edu

List of Google emails for easy copy/paste: 

christophersoran1@gmail.com;aindrunas@everettcc.edu;jubchas@gmail.com;vscee9302@mysvc.skagit.edu;ebachmann@pierce.ctc.edu;Stevilb@gmail.com

Member that stepped down from the ELC & Ed Tech Trends group March 2014:

Van Aguirre van.aguirre@skagit.edu 360-416-7076

Vanessa Scee will be taking Van's place with the council.

Goals

Assist the system colleges in understanding and employing new eLearning Trends

Expected Outcomes

1. Explore and evaluate MOOCS in the Community   College.

2. Explore and evaluate gamification

3. Explore and evaluate other new trends using research based methods.

4. Leveraging & Advertising free (skill building) courses -aka MOOCs.

5. Mobile

6. Learning Analytics

7. Testing  verification (accreditation)

8. Badging and credentialing of learning and competencies.

9. Social Learning, Personal Learning Networks.

10. Competency-based education.

11. Develop rubric for evaluating new trends and tools.

For all of these points, we will:

       (a) Identify the colleges that are currently using or exploring the use of this.

       (b) Develop definition of this based on feedback from the colleges.

       (c) Gather data from the colleges that are currently using or exploring the use of this.

Timeline

• Fall

  • Identify trends. 

  • Create trend resource pages. Here is the trend resource page.

• Winter

  • Develop questions for surveys that will identify the colleges that are currently using or exploring the use of each of the Ed Tech trend topics. Here is the survey.

  • Launch surveys.  (Send out email to ELC listerv).

• Spring

  • Encourage colleges to participate in survey.

  • Evaluate data from survey.  Here are the survey results.

  • Add data and contact information from survey to resource page.

Products Produced

• Trend Resources Page [Complete]

• Survey Questions 

  • Google Form - Ed Tech Survey [Complete]

  • Ed Tech Trends Survey Results

• Evaluation Rubric [ELC recommended to not pursue this and instead focus on survey].  

  • Resources for building the evaluation rubric

List of Identified Trends

1. MOOCs

2. Gamification

3. Mobile

4. Learning Analytics

5. Testing verification (accreditation)

6. Badging and credentialing of learning and competencies.

7. Social Learning, Personal Learning Networks.

8. Competency-based education.

IC Workplan

Below are the IC workplan objectives that our workgroup work fits into.  

• 2.2 - Our workgroup is exploring badges, social learning and competency-based education and this fits well with the work done with this objective.

• 3.1 - Our workgroup is exploring learning analytics, which are a key piece of evidence that drives institutional decision making.

• 3.2 - The use of innovative and effective ed tech can support and improve high quality eLearning for students.

• 3.3 - The effective use of innovative ed tech can be a characteristic of a "faculty of the future".