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Social Media and Collaboration

Today's technology tools also support what experts understand about the social nature of learning. "Technology resources for education . . . function in a social environment mediated by learning conversations with peers and teachers

Educational technology research always had an ambitious agenda. Sometimes it only aims at increased efficiency or effectiveness of current practise, but frequently it aims at pedagogical change. While it can be considered as a design science it also addresses fundamental issues of learning, teaching and social organization and therefore makes use of the full range of modern social science and life sciences methodology.

First large scale usage of new technologies can be traced to US WWI

Content vs. communication

What began as short-wave communication used during WWI

The original Internet was invented in 1967 for military purposes

collaboration purposes.    Today the Internet is available everywhere and to everyone. It is used for a variety of reasons including socializing, conducting research,