New Class Offered for Spring Semester: Learning Technology – LSAP 3595
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Abramovich, Samuel
Oct 14, 2011, 10:12:25 AM10/14/11
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Special Topics: Learning Technology – LSAP 3595
CRN: 24910
Time: Mondays 9-11:50
Room: WWPH 4301
Instructors: Lindsay Clare Matsumura and Sam Abramovich
There is strong evidence that Technological Innovations such as Computer Games, Robotics, Simulations, Computer Based Tutors, Mobile Devices, and Online Social Networks have tremendous potential to support learning in both formal and informal environments. What is less clear is how new technologies can be designed, applied, and evaluated to best induce learning. The goal of this class will be to help participants use learning science theories to examine technologies, including:
• Evaluating technology for potential educative benefit
• Investigating why a technology did or did not have a desired effect
• Generating ideas for how technologies could be more effectively designed or used for formal and informal learning
• Examining how education policies could be designed to support the productive use and development of learning technologies
Class participants will be given an introduction to an array of emerging educational technologies with a specific focus on case study and evaluation, looking at both the positive and the negative in regards to learning. Special attention will be paid to exploring learning technologies being developed in the Pittsburgh area.
The class will require the completion of a culminating project whose purpose will be to use the knowledge gained over the course of the semester in a practical take-away. Possible projects include writing a proposal for using a learning technology in a novel way, an analytic paper focused on why a technology does or doesn’t work, or analyzing the implicit assumptions about learning in a particular technology. Participants will be strongly encouraged to use the technologies covered over the semester to produce prototypes or examples that inform their project.
For further information please contact:
Sam Abramovich
Learning Research Development Center -‐ University of Pittsburgh
sj...@pitt.edu
412.624.3909
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Special Topics: Learning Technology – LSAP 3595
CRN: 24910
Time: Mondays 9-11:50
Room: WWPH 4301
Instructors: Lindsay Clare Matsumura and Sam Abramovich
There is strong evidence that Technological Innovations such as Computer Games, Robotics, Simulations, Computer Based Tutors, Mobile Devices, and Online Social Networks have tremendous potential to support learning in both formal and informal environments. What is less clear is how new technologies can be designed, applied, and evaluated to best induce learning. The goal of this class will be to help participants use learning science theories to examine technologies, including:
• Evaluating technology for potential educative benefit
• Investigating why a technology did or did not have a desired effect
• Generating ideas for how technologies could be more effectively designed or used for formal and informal learning
• Examining how education policies could be designed to support the productive use and development of learning technologies
Class participants will be given an introduction to an array of emerging educational technologies with a specific focus on case study and evaluation, looking at both the positive and the negative in regards to learning. Special attention will be paid to exploring learning technologies being developed in the Pittsburgh area.
The class will require the completion of a culminating project whose purpose will be to use the knowledge gained over the course of the semester in a practical take-away. Possible projects include writing a proposal for using a learning technology in a novel way, an analytic paper focused on why a technology does or doesn’t work, or analyzing the implicit assumptions about learning in a particular technology. Participants will be strongly encouraged to use the technologies covered over the semester to produce prototypes or examples that inform their project.
For further information please contact:
Sam Abramovich
Learning Research Development Center -‐ University of Pittsburgh
sj...@pitt.edu
412.624.3909
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