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Composed of four sections – Overall Developments, Corporate Training and Development, Higher Education, and K-12 Education – this chapter synthesizes the findings of major annual reports including ASTD’s State of the Industry Report, the EDUCAUSE Core Data Service Fiscal Year 2007 Summary Report, The ECAR Study of Undergraduate Students and Information Technology, Education Week’s Technology Counts 2009, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up 2009, and the Greaves Group’s America’s Digital Schools. The authors describe the economy’s impact on instructional technology and comment on the importance of Web 2.0, online learning, and increased attention paid to social networking sites for educational purposes.
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Brown, A., Green, T. (2010). Issues and Trends in Instructional Technology: Growth and Maturation of Web-Based Tools in a Challenging Climate; Social Networks Gain Educators’ Attention. In: Orey, M., Jones, S., Branch, R. (eds) Educational Media and Technology Yearbook. Educational Media and Technology Yearbook, vol 35. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1516-0_3
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