Predicting the development of the Internet as an educational space is difficult. The two reports mentioned in the chapter are well worth reading. One focuses on the technology and its implementation and the second on innovations in pedagogy.
This 2021 Educause Horizon report profiles key trends and emerging technologies and practices shaping the future of teaching and learning.
- Pelletier, K., Brown, M., Brooks, D. C., McCormack, M, Reeves, J. and Arbino, N. with Bozkurt, A., Crawford, S., Czerniewicz, L., Gibson, R., Linder, K., Mason, J. and Mondelli, V. (2021) 2021 EDUCAUSE Horizon report, teaching and learning edition. Boulder, CO: EDUCAUSE.
- https://library.educause.edu/resources/2021/4/2021-educause-horizon-report-teaching-and-learning-edition
The Open University Innovating Pedagogy project has reported since 2012. This 2021 report is the most recent and well worth a read.
- Kukulska-Hulme, A., Bossu, C., Coughlan, T., Ferguson, R., FitzGerald, E., Gaved, M., Herodotou, C., Rienties, B., Sargent, J., Scanlon, E., Tang, J., Wang, Q., Whitelock, D., & Zhang, S. (2021). Innovating pedagogy 2021: Open University innovation report 9. Milton Keynes: The Open University.
- http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/innovating/
Research into learning with the Internet has changed since the COVID-19 pandemic. Here are three articles.
The first explores the difference between emergency remote teaching and online learning.
- Hodges, C., Moore, S., Lockee, B., Trust, T., & Bond, A. (2020). The difference between emergency remote teaching and online learning. EDUCAUSE Review 2020.
- https://er.educause.edu/articles/2020/3/the-difference-between-emergency-remote-teaching-and-online-learning
In this second article web-based learning technologies are explored.
- Torrington, J. (2020). A typology of free web-based learning technologies (2020).
- https://library.educause.edu/-/media/files/library/2020/4/freewebbasedlearntech2020.pdf
This third article examines the role of video in learning.
- Noetel, M., Griffith, S., Delaney, O., Sanders, T., Parker, P., del Pozo Cruz, B., & Lonsdale, C. (2021). Video improves learning in higher education: a systematic review. Review of Educational Research, 91(2), 204–236.
- doi.org/10.3102/0034654321990713