What makes technologies and practices emerging are not specific technologies or practices, but the environments in which a particular technology or practice operate. This definition recognizes that learning, teaching, and scholarship are sociocultural phenomena situated in specific contexts and cultures.

1. 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
AECT 2014 Conference, Jacksonville, FL., Nov 2014

3. 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)

6. 2014. Submitting Edition #2.
Distinguish between practices and
technologies.
Emerging technologies vs. emerging
practices.
What are their characteristics?

7. Characteristics of Emergence
“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

8. Thank you!
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9. Related work
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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.