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[1] Graduate Courses in Digital Learning (EDDL)
6388 SPARKING AND SUSTAINING CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION Students in this course will learn how to manage learning opportunities that allow for innovation and creativity within the spectrum of mobile technology available today. Today’s learners have easy access to a wealth of digital content, but the current consumption-driven interaction with online media can hamper students’ ability to realize their potential for creativity and innovation. Students will be required to design a systematic approach to giving digital age learners an opportunity to articulate their innovative or creative vision.
7300 FOUNDATIONS OF DIGITAL AGE TEACHING AND LEARNING This course provides a foundation and application for teaching digital age learners and helps educators create accessible learning environments that empower and engage all students.
7303 CURRICULUM DESIGN FOR DIGITAL AGE TEACHING AND LEARNING This course empowers students to evaluate and design curriculum to support teaching and learning for digital age students. It focuses on examination of curriculum theories and the practical implications of curriculum designs for all learners. Examining the historical trends and implications of curricular decisions, this course considers how the needs of digital age learners impact curriculum design.
7312 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL AGE This course provides an in-depth approach to creating and executing dynamic professional learning activities that are enhanced through mobile technology and personalized delivery. The overarching goal of this course is to prepare educators to empower their students and their colleagues to learn in ways more suited to the digital age.
7335 PROFESSIONAL LEARNING NETWORKS AND SOCIAL MEDIA IN TEACHING AND LEARNING This course will explore connectivist and constructivist approaches as well as the practical application of developing and evolving professional learning networks among professionals through social media as well as using social media as a collaborative tool for teaching and community-building.
7342 EMPOWERING ALL LEARNERS IN DIGITAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTSÂ This course examines the importance of creating digital learning environments that build on student strengths and community assets. Students will analyze social, economic, and political influences on digital access and explore pedagogical approaches that honor a variety of learning preferences, experiences, and backgrounds while leveraging technology to support all learners.
7362 IMPACT OF DIGITAL LITERACY AND CITIZENSHIP ON TEACHING AND LEARNING This course provides a framework for understanding what it means to be an educator who is an empowered digital citizen and what steps one can take to cultivate and model principles of digital learning that empower learners as responsible digital citizens and consumers of digital media.
7380 INTERMEDIATE RESEARCH METHODS IN THE DIGITAL AGE The emphasis of this course is research design and methodologies used in educational research studies, including qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Students will develop a research proposal and mini-study to help inform their program capstone project, which will center on how educators can shape learning experiences that are personalized, engaging, and critically tied to state standards and core competencies in the digital age.
7388 REDEFINING EDUCATOR ROLES IN THE DIGITAL AGE This course provides a framework for articulating and evaluating the changing roles of the educator in the digital age. Specific focus will be on how society has created a need for educators to redefine their responsibilities, and how teachers can use this redefinition as an opportunity to better empower themselves and their students through resource management and structured change.
7390 APPROACHES TO DIGITAL AGE THINKING AND LEARNING This course will prepare educators to critically evaluate and subsequently execute learning activities centered around the principles of digital age thinking and learning. Specific focuses will be on brain-based learning, neuromyths, growth mindset, computational thinking, motivation theories, and design thinking.
7399 TEACHING AND LEARNING WITH EMERGING AND DISRUPTIVE TECHNOLOGY This course delves into the capacity and potential of teaching and learning relative to emerging and disruptive technology. The emphasis of this course is on meeting the needs of all learners through a critical evaluation of mobile technology apps and hardware to better differentiate fads from cutting edge pedagogical approaches and tools.
7699 CAPSTONE As a capstone course, students will demonstrate the collected knowledge and skills they have learned while in the Digital Age Teaching and Learning program in a single, original action research project of the student’s choice and with departmental approval. Prerequisite: All required EDDL coursework.