Latin: “persons or characters of the drama”
The Dramatis Personae represents the main characters in a dramatic work. My ePortfolio is made up of ten main characters, each with various actors (instructors and fellow classmates):
ETEC 500: Research Methodologies in Education. This course introduces students to issues and practices in a range of educational research methodologies.
ETEC 510: Design of Technology-Supported Learning Environments. This course is an online seminar examining research, and exemplary media tools, as these inform the design of technology-mediated environments.
ETEC 565A: Learning Technologies: Selection, Design and Application. This course is an online seminar that provides several theoretical frameworks to assist educators in evaluating, selecting and using various learning technologies.
ETEC 531: Cultural and New Media Studies. This course provides a forum for exploring technocultural issues such as cyborgs and hybridity, digital property, cyberpunk fiction, the posthuman, AI and AEI, information warfare, virtual reality, third nature and religion.
ETEC 511: Foundations of Educational Technology. This course provides both a disciplinary tour and poststructuralist deconstruction of the foundations of e-learning, educational technology, learning technologies, and new media.
ETEC 512: Applications of Learning Theories to Instruction. This course is intended as an overview of the major theoretical approaches to learning, especially as they are applied to educational contexts.
ETEC 520: Planning and Managing Learning Technologies in Higher Education. This course deals with the management of technology-based courses and projects, strategies for change needed at an institutional level to support technology-based teaching, and system-wide planning requirements at a provincial, state or national levels to support and regulate distributed learning.
ETEC 532: Technology in the Arts and Humanities Classroom. This course helps students understand the role of the arts in technology by historically reviewing the development of various technologies and their impact on development in the Arts, and examining socio-cultural considerations and their impact on the uses of technologies, aesthetics, pedagogy and curriculum in New Media contexts.
CNPS 433: The Personal and Social Development of the Adult. This course is an introduction to theory and research related to personal and social development of the adult. The material is aimed at those currently working, or intending to work, in the helping professions.
ETEC 590: Graduating Project. The Graduating Project takes the form of an e-portfolio. It synthesizes and applies knowledge and theories gained from courses taken in the MET program.