EPSY 556

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Course Description

 

The goal of this inquiry-based course is for you, as an educator, to define and to begin to answer the question "what does the future of learning look like"?   In doing so, you will be asked to critically consider emergent and advanced learning technologies such as Web 2.0 media and other digital technologies, and how their integration in the classroom may transform the way we teach and the way students learn and what a future learning environment may look like.  To do this, you will be designing the classroom or learning space of tomorrow.  The focus of the course has you exploring and evaluating advanced technologies and the means by which educators learn about them and sustain them in a learning environment.   Your goal is to determine how best to engage these technologies and in so doing, determine new ways to construct and share knowledge. This course is designed to assist you in identifying, analyzing and evaluating new media and digital technology so that you determine exemplary practices in the uses of advanced instructional technologies as they relate to the learning environment. The course aims to provide you with practical experiences that are framed within theories related to blended learning, digital (and other new) literacies, ubiquitous learning, and creativity.

 

Instructors

Evangeline S. Pianfetti esecaras@uiuc.edu	Sharon Hsiao (TA) hhsiao2@uiuc.edu

 

More Information

 

There will be NO face-to-face session. There will be synchronous session, as online office hours and explorations of new synchronous technologies. Synchronous sessions are expected to be held in Elluminate on Tuesdays at 6-7:30 pm CST. All readings are online, so there is no textbook required.