Overview
Learning Technologies: Selection, Design and Application.
ETEC565 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.
Course Texts
All readings for this course will be provided online, either through the course website or with links to materials that are freely available on the Internet or in the UBC Library.
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 4- Web 2.0 – Social Software Tools
Module 5 – Multimedia
ASSIGNMENTS
Participation in online discussion forum: 15%
Critical Frameworks and Learning Technologies: 10%
Module Projects: Hands-on Assignments/Reflections (3): 45%
Final Integrative Project/Reflection: 30%