One of my goals with the Instruction Spotlight series of posts on CALI Spotlight was to create a list of basic explanations to some of the major educational theories and ideas out there, both to teach myself as well as provide a resource for the CALI user base. Well, as with all of my good ideas, someone has already thought to do something very similar to that.
Today I discovered The EdTech Primer, created by CALIcon2012 Plenary speaker Audrey Watters. This is a wiki that is aimed at explaining educational theories and concepts to a “techie” audience. It’s a new-ish site, but there’s already a nice list of articles available. To give you an idea, some of the topics covered include:
All in all, a great resource to check out if you want to dip your toe in some educational theory without committing to reading an entire book or taking a grad school class.
Photo credit: Drawing by Eric Molinsky. One of the many CC licensed images available on CALI’s Lesson Illustration Flickr set. Help yourself!