State-of-the-Art Technologies in Education - Modernin opetusteknologian perusteet, 3621523, 5 ECTS


Course description

The course deals with today's and tomorrow's challenges and opportunities of using state-of-the-art ICT solutions  in education. The course will provide an overview of the contemporary technologies in education, with emphasis on the newest research work. The specific topics covered in the course are mobile and virtual learning environments, Web2.0, concretizing technologies (e.g. robotics and tangible distributed learning environments), programming visualization and games.

Objectives of the course

The aim of the course is to increase participants awareness of the possibilities, roles, opportunities, challenges of technological innovations in learning and education

Course audience

The course is an advanced level (e.g. master level) Computer Science course. The course is specifically aimed to following student groups:

Course organisation and structure

The course is an online course, which means that there is only few contact teaching sessions. The course consits of the following four study modules:

What you are supposed to do during the course? Students will prepare literature reviews and project summaries, write essays and create designs related to the recent technological advances in educational technology. The students are also expected to give presentations related to the activities of the course. The course modules include a set of learning activities that are done individually, in pairs and in small groups.

The Moodle platform, http://moodle.uef.fi/uef/login/index.php of UEF will be used during the course. The direct link to the course is http://moodle.uef.fi/course/view.php?id=710

Moodle will include learning materials, course exercises and basic tools for communication. Other online learning environments will also be used during the cousre.  The enrollement key for the course will be send to those students who have signed up to the course via the Weboodi system.

Evaluation

Course facilitator and co-ordinator

The course has two facilitators PhD students Amit Roy (amitroy.mailbox@[REMOVE_SPAM]gmail.com) and Vasileios Paliktzoglou (paliktzoglou@[REMOVE_SPAM]gmail.com). They are responsible for the day-to-day activities of the course, such as tutoring of the students, grading learning activities and responding to students' inquiries. Dr. Jarkko Suhonen is the co-ordinator of the course, who will give the final mark of the students, grade the final learning activities of the course and provide support to Amit and Vasilis as needed.

Preliminary schedule

The course will start March 7, 2011 and the last activities of the course are due May 13, 2011

The detailed time table of the course will be given in the Moodle environment.

Registration

Sign up for the course via the Weboodi system; Code: 3621523, Course name: State-of-the-Art Technologies in Education. The deadline for registration is Thursday, March 4 at 16:00.


Last update: 01.02.2011

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