ETEC 565A
Learning Technologies: Selection, Design and Application
Description
Learning Technologies: Selection, Design and Application.
ETEC 565A is an online seminar that provides several theoretical frameworks to assist educators in evaluating, selecting and using various learning technologies. Students will gain hands-on experience using a range of learning technologies and platforms: web-publication, course management systems, communication tools, community and collaboration tools, multimedia, and social software tools. Students will complete a number of small assignments using different learning technologies as well as a larger project in which they bring several of these technologies together to design materials and activities to support student learning.
Objectives
The objectives of this course are as follows:
- Students will discuss the characteristics of their classrooms, their instructional strategies, and the technologies that support teaching and learning.
- Participants will explore a set of theoretical frameworks for analyzing learning technologies and apply those frameworks to help them select technologies appropriate to their context.
- Participants will develop skills in the use of learning technologies:
- Web-publication: html editing skills, CSS, website design
- Course management systems: WebCT, Moodle
- Communication Tools: synchronous and asynchronous
environments, audio/videoconferencing
- Collaboration Tools
- Social Media Tools: Wikis, Weblogs, and Social Bookmarking
- Participants will explore and analyze a wide range of formal and informal learning environments, including e-learning, computer-supported collaborative learning, instructional software, and social media.
- Participants will develop skills in the design of educational media, and the integration of design thinking with scholarship in education.
Topics
- Module 1 - Selecting and Using Learning Technologies: Theoretical Frameworks
- Module 2 - Presentation Tools: Spaces, Places and Platforms for Learning
- Module 3 - Interaction and Assessment Tools
- Module - Web 2.0 – Social Software Tools
- Module 5 - Multimedia