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Past Courses |
Kent State University (2006 - 2007):
Teachers College, Columbia University (2000 - 2006):
Computer Applications in EducationThis course is designed to help teachers become familiar with various aspects of computer applications in educational settings. It is expected that each learner will have had some experience with computers and come to the course with questions, inquiries and interests in various issues related to the educational application of computers on both the theoretical and practical levels.Computer applications in education is a broad and changing term due to the breadth of the area of study and the rapid and ever-changing nature of technology. Computer applications include, but are not limited to, desktop publishing and presentations, computer use in classrooms, telecommunications and distance education, computer hardware and software, networking, lab administration, multimedia presentations, and publishing. Obviously, we cannot cover them all in just one fifteen week course. Additionally, it does not help to learn to use technology in isolation, especially when technology changes quickly and dramatically. The learning of technology must be integrated in daily classroom teaching activities within the context of educational goals for it to be meaningful. Therefore, in this course, we will incorporate an integrated approach and learn to use technology in the process of applying it to resolve teaching and learning issues. We will use problem-based learning as a channel for our exploration. We will discuss why and how to integrate computers in our teaching. I hope that by doing so, we will critically re-examine and positively transform our ways of teaching with computers and new technologies. Class sites:
Designing MultimediaThis course will focus on the development of prototype computer-assisted instruction and multimedia systems. It will feature self-instructional tutorials, reading assignments, and discussion questions, as well as individually selected design projects. Individual projects will be developed using advanced authoring tools and techniques. This course is designed to introduce the design and development of multimedia lessons for use in a variety of educational settings to pre- and in-service educators and trainers. Please note that ITEC67432 Authoring Systems and ITEC 57403 Instructional Design are required prerequisites for this course. Course sites:
Authoring SystemsThis course is an introduction to tools and techniques for developing computer-based multimedia programs. Features of authoring systems are compared / contrasted for producing web-based and stand alone multimedia. Packaging multimedia programs for distribution on delivery systems is emphasized.Course sites: Health Technology This course will introduce different technology tools used in the health and medical fields. Students will learn how to locate and evaluate health information over the Internet, create web-based health information resources with new media and technologies, and examine health technology from critical angles. Class sites:
Computer-mediated CommunicationThis course will analyze characteristics of computer-mediated communication systems such as networked multimedia, email, discussion boards, blog, wiki, chat, instant messenger, digital photography, streaming video, shared drives, internet, portal, wireless networks, the PDA, and various research and assistive tools. Students will participate in online communication systems. Computer-mediated communication is very much a protean technological development of immense complexity and scope, one that will continue to disclose significant emerging characteristics for several decades. Digital networks are global and they greatly diminish the significance of distance and of time. Yet people remain embodied in and live in the here and now. Communications' innovations rarely eradicate their predecessors; rather they incorporate them into a new mixture of traditional and innovative practice. We will inquire into the mixture that is emerging and its sociopolitical consequences by studying how information and communications technologies are likely to strengthen and to weaken the relative advantages of large cities as the loci of human activity and of large campuses as centers for advancement of learning. Computer-mediated communications do not exercise a technological determinism in our lives. Quite the opposite: digital communications systems alter the possibilities; the range of what might be feasible in many fields, which opens the way for innovators to try diverse new departures. These may or may not work and their consequences may or may not improve the human lot. By situating ourselves in the computer-mediated communication environment, we will interpret important human uses of computer-mediated communication as a further component of our reflections, indicating how computer-based communication may be associated with significant new developments in academic disciplines, important sectors of human activities, and changing practices of education.
Class site: http://online.tc.columbia.edu/ Current Research Issues in Online LearningThis course will review current research that has been done in online distance education and explore potential areas of research that are important for the construction of new knowledge. Students will engage in a guided inquiry to identify and critique current research in online learning as well as to discover and construct new areas of research in online learning. Students will participate in a constructive online learning environment.
Class sites: http://online.tc.columbia.edu/
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