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Congrats Jennifer.

I'm curious what does "Educational Technology" mean?


Innovative ways of bringing technology into learning environments.

Did your experience with "testing out" help you make that decision.

Oddly, no. More my experience as an online student that lit my fire to bring some of the courses I teach online. The ball is started rolling, so it has been a bit of a domino effect.

Do you think you will be in a better position to help others with "Educational Technology" because of your long journey?

Well, I know I am making a contribution in a different way as a result of going back to school. I have one student who enrolled in a bachelor program due to my prompting, and another who is planning a few CLEPs. So, just the one on one conversations I have with my students are more education-centered. As to the future, I have high hopes that the program I teach in will be able to do great things. We are a model now for a few things we do, and so we get a lot of attention that way- I think if I can integrate technology into our program in a way that opens up new areas of revenue for our department, that will probably be a very good thing. If I could arrange for our department to get several courses up and online, this would be very exciting.

Or does Educational Technology have nothing to do with online courses, testing etc...?

For me, it will. I hope to write my F2F classes up as candidates for online courses- plus my college is sending me to a training to write up several new courses. I think the timing is perfect, because I will have great info coming at me from 2 directions.
Once I earn 18 credits in Ed Tech, I'll be doing the rest of my masters in English :eek: