Technology
Courses Offered
- EDU P&L 370 - Computers in the Classroom - An introduction to educational computing.
- EDU P&L 671 - Fundamentals of Computer Applications in Education and Training - This introduction to educational computing is delivered over the web and supported through optional meetings on campus. Requirements include participating in on-line discussions on relevant topics, producing a brief PowerPoint ™ lesson, and developing a webpage.
- EDU P&L 823 - The Functions of the Computer in the Classroom - This introductory course covers topics and issues surrounding uses of computers and related technologies in education. Topics include multiple approaches to using technology, technology and educational reform, the relationship of technology to cognition, equity issues, ethical issues, research implications, and others.
- EDU P&L 677 - Educational Telecommunications - This course will examine how technology can overcome distance and bring people and materials together for learning. Topics include introduction and hands-on experience with videoconferencing, synchronous and asynchronous web-based interactions, resources available through satellite and cable; classroom and administrative perspectives will be included.
- EDU P&L 678 - Instructional System Development - Paradigms for instructional development; learner, task and curriculum analysis; prototype development; completion of a production proposal/storyboard; subsequent enrollment in 778 expected.
- EDU P&L 680 - Videography and Education - Functions and operations of small format video production and post-production equipment; application of theory and research to the production of video materials for instruction.
- EDU P&L 778 - Formative Evaluation of Instructional Systems - Theory and practice of developmental testing and field evaluation of instructional systems.
- EDU P&L 791 - Media & Technology in Education - Overview of the impact and use of media and technology in education; courses directed to teacher education students.
- Edu P&L 804 - Application of Technology to Engaged Life-Long Learning - Theories and practice of using educational technologies to support problem-based learning.
- EDU P&L 823 - The Functions of the Computer in the Classroom - A critical examination of the issues raised by the implementation and use of microcomputers in the classroom.
- EDU P&L 825 - Visualizing the Curriculum - Current technologies support many ways of presenting information and processes visually (rather than relying on textual presentations and descriptions). This course examines issues such as: how visuals communicate, design of visual information, visual literacy in the 21st Century.
- EDU P&L 829 - Technology, Society & Schools - Examination of theories and history of interaction of society and technology with implications for instructional technology and schooling. Resources for constructing personal definitions of technology.
- EDU P&L 853 - Women, Technology & Education - Analysis of the issues in the relationships between women's lives and technological development; exploration of current needed educational response to these issues.
- EDU P&L 895 - Fundamentals of Instructional Materials and Media - Survey of foundational issues in the development of digital media, its relations with prior media and materials, and implications for education.
- EDU P&L 897 - Design Multimedia - Introduction to the instructional capabilities and hands-on development of multimedia including CDROM: topics include relative learning theories, programming techniques and design models.