Overall, this unit aims to develop your capacity to:
understand major issues and controversies in the international research literature on new technologies in education and training;
consider how professional and community attitudes to new technologies may affect decisions related to curriculum and instruction;
critically examine approaches to new technologies in schools, adult education and training, business and industry, and relate these approaches to your own professional experience;
examine contemporary literature about culturally-different practices of new technology in a variety of contexts and situations inlcuidng your own;
consider what best practice in the use of new technologies in educational settings might look like;
understand the ways in which new technologies may be integrated into your current teaching and/or training practices;
reflect on the use of new technologies, associated pedagogical practices, and compare them to the context of your own professional work and
critique some common assumptions about the roles of teachers, trainers, and learners, and about the practices that are commonly employed when new technologies are infused into learning contexts.
Unit organisation
This unit consists of two related parts:
a core module with an associated individual task and
a group assessment task.
The core module requires you to individually engage with contemporary research and up to date professional literature about the use of new technologies in Education and Training. You are expected to communicate online with your fellow students, with activities designed to encourage debate, to stimulate reflection and discussion, and to challenge your thinking about the nature and purpose of new technologies in education and training.
In the second half of the unit, you have the opportunity to work in a group to identify and address a significant issue/problem that you identify as a consequence of your engagement with the literature and participation in the online discussions.
Unit materials
This unit was been designed as a fully online unit in an attempt to 'use educational technology to teach about educational technology'. You are required to use online databases to located recent journal articles about each topic to contribute to the online discussions.
Unit aims
Overall, this unit aims to develop your capacity to:Unit organisation
This unit consists of two related parts:- a core module with an associated individual task and
- a group assessment task.
The core module requires you to individually engage with contemporary research and up to date professional literature about the use of new technologies in Education and Training. You are expected to communicate online with your fellow students, with activities designed to encourage debate, to stimulate reflection and discussion, and to challenge your thinking about the nature and purpose of new technologies in education and training.In the second half of the unit, you have the opportunity to work in a group to identify and address a significant issue/problem that you identify as a consequence of your engagement with the literature and participation in the online discussions.
Unit materials
This unit was been designed as a fully online unit in an attempt to 'use educational technology to teach about educational technology'. You are required to use online databases to located recent journal articles about each topic to contribute to the online discussions.