Edu: Technology & Media (EME)

Introduction to computers and technologies, and their function in the classroom to augment the teaching and learning processes.

Survey of the history, ethical practice, and trends of educational technology in professional fields including adoption and integration, selection and evaluation of digital resources to facilitate learning and enhance performance, and sources of ongoing professional learning.

Application of methods for creating, developing, and maintaining websites for educational use, including HTML, CSS, accessibility, and usability.

Introduction to principles of effective visual media design for learning. Creation of graphics, animations, presentations, and videos for use as instructional materials. Application of research-based best practices for design, accessibility, and usability for visual instructional media.

Provide a context for industry and school-based leadership skills in managing educational technology projects in formal and informal learning environments. Includes managing, planning, administration, training, leadership, budgeting, ethics, evaluation, and grant writing.

Application of digital tools and resources that provide authentic learning experiences aligned with relevant standards and best practices in a variety of learning settings.

Introduction to the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) framework. Emphasis on how to design instruction, environments, and assessments using the UDL framework’s principles and guidelines.

Explores pedagogies and digital tools related to virtual and online participatory learning environments. Focuses on designing, organizing, managing, and utilizing online resources and technologies for virtual teaching and learning.

An exploration of teaching and learning resources using interactive software and other new technologies with focus on principles of human-computer-human interactions in instructional settings.

Exploration of instructional design models and processes, learning theories, human performance technologies, the role of project management in instructional design, formative and summative evaluation, systems thinking in context, consulting skills, and professional organizations in ID.

Students will apply relevant instructional theories and models to realistic organizational situations using evidence-based consultative practices. Students will design effective training and performance solutions related to improving organizational products, processes, and services.

Build and develop optimized learning materials using administrative features of a learning management system (LMS) to monitor user progress, deploy learning content, personalize online learning, and create and update learning modules.

Investigation of the ways that new media have changed contemporary society and the cultural narratives that shape it, with a focus on digital storytelling for instructional design to develop meaning and facilitate comprehension.

Application of learner-centered, student-driven learning design and competency-based assessment.

This course focuses on the study of media environments, technology and techniques, modes of information, and codes of communication that play a role in human - human interactions in learning environments.

This course prepares students for professional roles in instructional design who can integrate the roles of learning expert, researcher, project manager, and relationship manager. Course employs a cognitive apprenticeship approach using scenario-based learning.

Students will explore and evaluate latest trends in instructional design and educational technology for use in a variety of learning environments.

Candidates will design a scholarly project under the direction of the faculty advisor that integrates the principles, theories, and concepts of the core courses of the C & I program and the student's concentration. Students may register for up to 2 additional hours in subsequent semesters. Permission of instructor required.

Students complete a case-based design experience focused on their preferred professional practice that demonstrates program learning outcome competencies for external audiences.

This is the first of two capstone courses in which students learn to identify an authentic problem related to the field of learning, design, and technology and decide on a potential innovative solution.

Candidates identify and increase their skills using innovative design tool(s) to create new ways of thinking about learning. The tool(s) chosen will be further developed in the design studio courses.

Develops participants’ literacy about latest trends to enhance their skills in digital pedagogy, instructional design, and problem solving. Successful completion implies a demonstration of effectively using design as a means to innovate teaching and learning.

Provide educators and instructional designers with theoretical and practical knowledge of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Realities to enhance candidates’ competencies in integrating all four domains into classroom learning experiences and practices.

Students will design methodologies to explore, evaluate, synthesize, and apply methods of inquiry to enhance innovative learning.

This course is an immersive experience into design thinking: an empathy-based, human-centered, and rapid prototype-driven methodology for innovation.

This course is intended to help candidates develop an innovative solution for an authentic problem related to the field of learning, design, and technology. Students will also develop a planned applied research activity.