I’m working on the syllabus for the m-learning course that I’m teaching this Spring. Since the course is an elective for everyone in it and we will have a small class, I have been debating the best way to structure the course. I’ve decided that we will, as a group, take the first session to plan out our semester.
Girls using XO Laptop in South America
As the new Program in Educational Technology gets underway, I’m refining and organizing the syllabi for the courses. When they are ready, I’m going to post all course syllabi here, so that other people can inspect them, use them, comment, critique, and hopefully find them useful in some way.
The first one I’m posting is for a course that I’m teaching as a special topics, but will be an elective in the new program: Video games and learning. This semester, it’s kind of a soft launch for the program, testing out many things:
Without further ado, here are the links to the course syllabus:
Earlier this week we received word from the NYS Dept. of Education that our programs in Educational Technology have officially been approved. This means that we can start accepting applications from students and add program information to the university website. Expect both to happen in the next week or two.
The State approved:
I’m proposing to teach a new design course, based on a digital studio pedagogy. All students will work in pairs on one semester long project. In it, we’ll look at cases of multimedia learning, read some instructional and interaction design theory, and get lots of feedback from invited guests. In terms of skill, we’ll use the web as a framework for multimedia publishing: digital video/audio/images, CSS, Javascript (MooTools or JQuery, I think), and some basics for PHP or Python for the web, depending on the skills the students bring.
I’m interested in feedback on all aspects of the course, but especially on what the challenge should be. So far, I have three things in mind:
Please check out the course syllabus (draft), here: