25 Years of Ed Tech in the time of pandemic

The rapid pivot to online education following the COVID-19 outbreak has universities around the world leaning heavily on educational technology to facilitate remote lectures, exams, meetings, conferences, and more. But has there been enough consideration of equity, privacy, data surveillance, and disinformation? Martin Weller, author of 25 Years of Ed Tech, and Anne-Marie Scott, Deputy Provost at Athabasca University tackled some of these questions in this webinar. Their in-depth discussion about higher education’s relationship with educational technology is available online along with some key takeaways from the presentation available at https://www.aupress.ca/blog/2020/05/21/the-history-of-ed-tech-key-takeaways/.