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Incorporating technology: SAMR model

Incorporating technology: SAMR model

From the course: Learning to Teach Online

Incorporating technology: SAMR model

- [Instructor] Determining how you incorporate technology and which tools you use is an important part of planning for an online course. Successfully implementing technology can improve learning while helping your learners develop important technical skills that they'll need to be successful in this digital age. When selecting technology tools, it's important to remember quality over quantity. You want to find tools that really help reinforce the learning. I want to introduce you to the SAMR Model developed by Dr. Ruben Puentedura. The purpose of this model is to illustrate the different levels of technology integration into a course. These days, there's a lot of educational technology out there, but one of the critical roles of the instructor is to be able to distinguish between the gimmicks and the game changers. This is a visual representation of the model. And as you can see, SAMR is an acronym for the four…

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