‘The Really Useful #EdTechBook‘ is about experiences, reflections, hopes, passions, expectations, and professionalism of those working with, in, and for the use of technology in education. Not only is it an insight into how, or why, we work with these technologies, it’s about how we as learning professionals got to where we are and how we go forward with our own development. The knowledge these leading learning practitioners, researchers, and professionals, share, under the same cover, is a unique opportunity for you to read about the variety of approaches to learning technology, the different perspectives on the same technology, and how technology is impacting our culture and learning infrastructure, from early-age classrooms to leading research Universities and from museums and workplace learning providers. It is about our passion for our work and our desire to make our work better through our own learning and development. Contributory authors: - Catherine Cronin: Foreword - David Hopkins: Introduction - Wayne Barry: “…and what do you do?”: Can we explain the unexplainable? - Zak Mensah: “Why do we do what we do?” - Peter Reed: “The structure and roles of Learning Technologists within Higher Education Institutions” - Rachel Challen: “Learning Technologists as agents of change? Blending policy and creativity” - Julie Wedgwood: “Developing the skills and knowledge of a Learning Technologist” - Dr David Walker and Sheila MacNeill: “Learning Technologist as Digital Pedagogue” - Lesley Price: “Times they are a changing …or not?” - Sue Beckingham: “The Blended Professional: Jack of all Trades and Master of Some?” - Julian Stodd: “How gadgets help us learn” - Terese Bird: “Students Leading the Way in Mobile Learning Innovation” - Inge de Waard: “Tech Dandy, or the Art of Leisure Learning” - Sharon Flynn: “Learning Technologists: changing the culture or preaching to the converted?” - Mike McSharry: “This is your five-minute warning!”

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3. ‘The Really Useful #EdTechBook’ is about experience,
reflections, hopes, passions, expectations, and
professionalism of those working with, in, and for the use of
technology in education. Not only is it an insight into how, or
why, we work with these technologies, it’s about how we as
learning professionals got to where we are and how we go
forward with our own development.
http://bit.ly/EdTechBook

4. Contributions from:
Catherine Cronin - Foreword
Wayne Barry - “..and what do you do?” Can We explain the
unexplainable?
Zak Mensah - Why do we do what we do?
Peter Reed - The structure and roles of Learning Technologists
within Higher Education Institutions
Rachel Challen - Learning Technologists as agents of change?
Blending policy and creativity
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5. Contributions from:
Julie Wedgwood - Developing the skills and knowledge of a
Learning Technologist
David Walker & Sheila MacNeill - Learning Technologists as
Digital Pedagogues
Lesley Price - Times they are a changing .. Or not?
Sue Beckingham - The Blended Professional: Jack-of-all-trades-
and master of some?
Julian Stodd - How gadgets help us learn
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6. Contributions from:
Terese Bird - Students leading the way in mobile learning
innovation
Inge de Waard - Tech Dandy, and the art of Leisure Learning
Sharone Flynn - Learning Technologists: changing the culture or
preaching to the converted?
Mike McSharry - This is your five-minute warning!
David Hopkins - Introduction, and post-script
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7. Here follows some quotes
from key individuals who have
read and reviewed The
Really Useful #EdtechBook
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8. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"The Really Useful #EdTechBook does exactly what it promises on its
cover. It draws together a useful, diverse, eclectic set of visions and
commentaries that together provide the reader with a lucid and
comprehensive vista of educational technology."
Steve Wheeler

9. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"You don't have to be a Learning Technologist to read this book, but you
might wish you had more of their expertise at your side when you're
finished."
Maren Deepwell

10. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"A very insightful and extensive collection of authentic accounts by practitioners who identify
themselves as Learning Technologists in a variety of educational settings."
Chrissi Nerantzi

11. Quotes by the chapter authors,
taken from The Really Useful
#EdtechBook …
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12. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"This collection is a live network of trusted and generous education professionals, each
of whom describes their own learning as well as how they collaborate and support
learning at their institutions."
Catherine Cronin

13. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"Our challenge is how we engage with ourselves, our institutions and the wider
public and make them aware as to who we are, what we are, and what we do."
Wayne Barry

14. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"Don't let the fact that technology is always changing cloud your vision and stop you
from getting started. Change is constant but being helpful is always wanted and a
large part of why we do what we do."
Zak Mensah

15. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"As we move to a post-digital era, and with continued financial pressure on institutions, the
variations of the Learning Technologist discussed in this chapter will not cease any time
soon."
Peter Reed

16. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook
"Learning Technologists as agents of change and general superheroes -
battling against pedagogy crime and sweeping the country with a social
epidemic of online learning ... I'm off to get my cape."
Rachel Challen

17. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"Staying on top of the emerging trends in tools, strategies and
emerging developments takes effort, but it is possible by harnessing
the worldwide network of learning professionals who are passionate
about the subject."
Julie Wedgwood

18. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"The Learning Technologist role is less about making the technology work and more about
making the individual (the academic, the student) work (or in an educational context teach
and/or learn) more effectively."
Sheila MacNeill

19. Quote from The Really Useful
#EdTechBook:
"Effective Learning Technologists' skilfully
traverse the technological and
pedagogical domains, shifting across and
combining the two as each learning and
teaching situation demands."
David Walker

20. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"Take responsibility for your own personal
developments and be industry-aware. To achieve this,
you need to look beyond learning and the environment
you work in."
Lesley Price

21. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"The ability to absorb and understand information from different perspectives is
key, as is the ability to be 'multilingual' and communicate in a variety of ways
and to different audiences."
Sue Beckingham

22. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook"
"Technology is a means to an end, rarely an end in itself. We are too locked into the
complexities and costs of buying new systems and technologies, which leads to the
natural belief that they will solve our problems and last forever, both of which are
fictions."
Julian Stodd

23. Quote from The Really Useful
#EdTechBook:
"Students learn best when the method or
device is chosen and/or personalised by
them, when they have made it their own
for their independent learning."
Terese Bird

24. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
""The art of Leisure Learning is all about obtaining pure knowledge, to
disseminate that real knowledge and transmit it to your peers, or
embed it in your future learning solutions will ensure high quality
returns'"
Inge de Waard

25. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"Is good practice in the use of technology
really being embedded in teaching and
learning activities. Are we changing the
culture of our institutions?"
Sharon Flynn

26. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"The future belongs to those who are willing to learn and tackle new
challenges. I've learned so much in the last 30 years - and learned that
there's still such a lot to find out."
Mike McSharry

27. Quote from The Really Useful #EdTechBook:
"I am in awe of what we have been able to achieve here. Not only have a
group of incredibly busy and hard working people been able to come
together on a shared passion - our work and those we work with - but
we’ve all been able to share the journey with our colleagues, friends, and
family too."
David Hopkins

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