UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
\nMaster of Educational Technology (MET)
\nWinter 2010
\nETEC 511: Foundations of Educational Technology
\nVersion 2.1 (Sect. 64a, 64b, 64c, 64d)
\nCourse Designer: Stephen Petrina (Version 2.1)
\nCourse Instructors: Dr. Stephen Petrina, Dr. Matiul Alam & Dr. Franc Feng
\nEmail: stephen.petrina@ubc.ca, malam@interchange.ubc.ca,feng@interchange.ubc.ca
\nCourse Graduate Teaching Assistant: Juyun Kim
\nWWW: http:\/\/www.met.ubc.ca, https:\/\/www.elearning.ubc.ca, http:\/\/www.edcp.educ.ubc.ca
\nCourse Description:
\n\u201cEducational foundations\u201d and \u201ccurriculum foundations\u201d were, from the 1930s up until the mid
\n1980s, generally understood as the convergence of 4-5 disciplines applied to the study of
\neducation. Cultural and social foundations underlying education (including curriculum and
\npedagogy) as studied through anthropological, comparative, economic, historical,
\nphenomenological, philosophical, political, psychological and sociological inquiry constituted the
\nfield. Journals like Educational Foundations, Educational Theory and Interchange articulated
\nthese disciplinary and interdisciplinary discourses. As critical, feminist, postcolonial, and
\npoststructural studies began to erode away some foundations in the 1980s, the field of educational
\nfoundations faced a crisis of unity and purpose. This erosion and crisis continue today.
\n\u201cFoundation\u201d as a useful metaphor was questioned in an era of postmodernism, poststructuralism
\nand a deconstruction of \u201csolid truths\u201d and what Lyotard called \u201cgrand narratives\u201d or
\nmetanarratives. The cultural and social foundations of education and technology more or less
\ncollapsed. Hence, the \u201cfoundations of educational technology\u201d are never straightforward or
\nstable.
\nThis course provides both a disciplinary tour and poststructuralist deconstruction of the
\nfoundations of e-learning, educational technology, learning technologies, and new media. It
\naddresses the anthropological, economic, historical, phenomenological, philosophical, political,
\npsychological, sociological, and spiritual foundations of educational technology along with a
\ncritique of these foundations. These foundations are cast within a larger framework of ecologicalnatural,
\nethical-personal, existential-spiritual, socio-political and technical-empirical dimensions
\nof technology with implications for curriculum and instructional design. How, why and to what
\ndegree have media and technology been incorporated into, or changed by, education and what
\nfoundational structures underlie these processes? How do the processes of foundation building
\nshape educational media, technology or learning technologies? What happens to e-learning,
\neducational technology, learning technologies, and new media if and when we can no longer rely
\non their foundations or when foundations shift? This course is designed from a basis that
\neducational media and learning technologies are not merely tools; educational premises are
\nneither fully durable nor pliable; and actors or agents of education are not merely humans. It
\nbegins with an exploration of the cultural and social foundations of education, and proceeds
\nthrough disciplinary and interdisciplinary foundations of e-learning, educational technology,
\nlearning technologies, and new media and concludes with a critique of these foundations and the
\ncultural studies of educational technology, learning technologies, and new media.
\nTexts (Required):
\nETEC 511 Readings. <\/p>\n
Valued Ends of the Course:
\nOur intention is to help you develop a framework for exploring and understanding the
\nfoundations of e-learning, educational technology, learning technologies, and new media as
\nunsettled and lived by students and teachers. We will encourage you to examine your own biases
\ntoward the foundations of media and technology, and a major effort will be in providing you with
\na background for research into the foundations of e-learning, educational technology, learning
\ntechnologies, and new media.
\nAssessment (for details, see below): Deadline:
\n1. Participation in Online Activities (20%) Ongoing
\n2. Keywords of Educational Technology (10%)
\n3. Tooning Educational Technology (10%)
\n27 Sept
\n18 Oct
\n4. Discourse Leadership (groups of 3-4) (20%) Ongoing
\n5. Scholarly Essay or Essay Review (40%) 6 Dec
\n\u2022 Academic Honesty and Standards, and Academic Freedom: UBC Calendar 2010\/11
\n\u2022 Policies and Regulations (Selected): http:\/\/www.students.ubc.ca\/calendar
\n\u2022 Academic Accommodation for Students with Disabilities: Students with a disability who
\nwish to have an academic accommodation should contact the Disability Resource Centre
\nwithout delay (see UBC Policy #73 www.universitycounsel.ubc.ca\/ policies\/policy73.pdf).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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