The Quantified Self (QS) Movement and Some Emerging Opportunities for the Educational Technology Field

Victor R. Lee · Digital Commons - USU (Utah State University) · 2013

The Quantified Self (QS) movement is a growing global effort to use new mobile and wearable technologies to automatically obtain personal data about everyday activities. The social and material infrastructure associated with the Quantified Self (QS) movement provides a number of ideas that educational technologists should consider incorporating and using. This article discusses some recent efforts to bring the movement to the practices of the educational technology field and presents some issues to consider in the future.

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