A Database of International Professional Organizations in Educational Technology to Inspire AECT Global Partnerships
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A Database of International Professional Organizations in Educational Technology to Inspire AECT Global Partnerships Lucas Vasconcelos 1 & Miaoting Cheng 2 & Lin Zhong 3 & Sean Jackson 4
# Association for Educational Communications & Technology 2020
Keywords Professional organizations . Educational technology . AECT . Global partnerships
Introduction The Leadership Internship Program1 annually selects individuals with a record of leadership in Association for Educational Communications and Technology (AECT) (Miller 2013) and the broader field of educational technology for a unique opportunity to further develop leadership skills. The class of interns identifies an organizational need, proposes a project idea, creates and fulfills a plan of action, and presents project outcomes to AECT leaders. This project has been a mandatory component of the internship program for over a decade (Anderle et al. 2018). This paper presents the internship project spearheaded by the class of 2018 interns: Lucas Vasconcelos, Lin Zhong, Miaoting Cheng, and Sean Jackson.
brainstormed ideas for the project. Inspired by AECT’s core value of collaboration, which includes sharing AECT’s vision with other organizations (Association for Educational Communications and Technology n.d.), interns identified a mutual interest in leveraging their multicultural backgrounds and multilingual abilities for international outreach.
Purpose The purpose of the project was four-pronged: (1) collect data about international professional organizations of educational technology, (2) create an online database, (3) identify patterns in the dataset, and (4) propose recommendations to inspire AECT global partnerships.
The Project Idea
Methods
During the annual convention, interns networked with various stakeholders, shared future career and leadership plans, and
Data Collection
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Currently named Addie Kisinger Internship Program
* Lucas Vasconcelos [email protected] 1
Educational Technology, University of South Carolina, 820 Main Street, Columbia, SC 29201, USA
2
Educational Technology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
3
Workforce Education and Development, Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Carbondale, IL, USA
4
Computer science teacher and co-chief information officer, Mason County Schools, Maysville, KY, USA
Interns leveraged their language proficiency to collect data on international organizations over a period of two months. Lucas Vasconcelos surveyed organizations in South and Central America while Miaoting Cheng focused on Mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and other parts of Asia. Lin Zhong surveyed Mainland China, Korea, Japan, South Asia, United States, and Europe while Sean Jackson focused on Europe, North America, and Africa (Table 1). Areas in which AECT already has affiliates, such as Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia, were excluded from data collection. Search engines (e.g., Google, Yahoo) and social media (e.g., Twitter) were used for data collection. Search phrases in different lan
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