TY - JOUR
T1 - Celebrating and Preserving Educational Technology History in Canada
T2 - the AMTEC History Project
AU - Janes, Diane
AU - Ives, Cindy
AU - Crowley, Chris
N1 - Funding Information:
Throughout its tenure, AMTEC sponsored a journal, Leadership Awards, Excellence and other Awards, and an annual Media Festival, all of which acknowledged and highlighted the best educational media in Canada. In 2002 CJEC was renamed the Canadian Journal of Learning and Technology (CJLT) (Roberts, ). AMTEC was also a participant in the Commonwealth Relations Trust Bursary program which supported members on a three-month travelling educational technology-themed bursary throughout the United Kingdom (C. Crowley, personal communication, December 19, 2022). As Chris Crowley, final Chair of the AMTEC Trust commented “I think also another important value that AMTEC offered was that it went across all sectors of education from K-12 to college and university and public to private institutions”. Even after AMTEC was dissolved, the AMTEC Trust continued to serve Canadian educators and educational technologists through 2022, when it disbursed the last research grants from the AMTEC Trust Fund.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Association for Educational Communications & Technology.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - This paper examines the roots of the Association for Media and Technology in Education (AMTEC) in Canada and its connections to global educational technology and media organizations including the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). The AMTEC History Project, which is preserving memories, voices and documents related to the field of educational technology in Canada, celebrates the 50th anniversary of AMTEC in the context of the 100th anniversary of AECT. Generations of AECT leaders had a substantive influence on the history of AMTEC. Interviews with memory keepers as part of this history project revealed the importance of communication, collaboration, networking, persistence, and a learning mindset for those engaged as educational technologists, as they navigated change. Students, academics, and practitioners of educational technology may benefit from lessons learned by the Canadian pioneers of multi-media instruction and research collected in this project.
AB - This paper examines the roots of the Association for Media and Technology in Education (AMTEC) in Canada and its connections to global educational technology and media organizations including the Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT). The AMTEC History Project, which is preserving memories, voices and documents related to the field of educational technology in Canada, celebrates the 50th anniversary of AMTEC in the context of the 100th anniversary of AECT. Generations of AECT leaders had a substantive influence on the history of AMTEC. Interviews with memory keepers as part of this history project revealed the importance of communication, collaboration, networking, persistence, and a learning mindset for those engaged as educational technologists, as they navigated change. Students, academics, and practitioners of educational technology may benefit from lessons learned by the Canadian pioneers of multi-media instruction and research collected in this project.
KW - AECT
KW - AMTEC
KW - CADE
KW - CNIE/RCIÉ
KW - Canada
KW - Educational technology
KW - History
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85163974463&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/s11528-023-00871-9
DO - 10.1007/s11528-023-00871-9
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:85163974463
SN - 8756-3894
JO - TechTrends
JF - TechTrends
ER -