Syllabus

Instructors (learn more about the instructors on the About the Instructors page):

• Heather M. Ross, Instructional Design Specialist at Gwenna Moss Centre For Teaching Effectiveness, University of Saskatchewan
• Ryan Banow, Instructional Design Specialist at Gwenna Moss Centre For Teaching Effectiveness, University of Saskatchewan

Location: This is an open online course. Feel free to do it wherever you please.

Course Description:

Welcome to Introduction to Learning Technologies. This course will provide an introduction to how learning technologies may support student collaboration, reflection, creation, sharing and other key elements of learning and provide opportunity for you to consider how they may do so in course that you teach, and how you will for your own professional development.

See the Course Schedule for information about the individual topics covered in this course.

Learning Outcomes:

By the end of this course, you should be able to:

• Utilize learning technologies in your teaching and for your professional development
• Evaluate various learning technologies in relation to their potential contribution to student learning
• Create and publish digital learning resources for use in teaching
• Discuss issues around the use of learning technologies including digital citizenship, digital literacy and access

Assessment

There will be no grades given in this course. However, there will be rubrics provided for some of the activities to help you see how such assignments may be marked in your own courses.

The required activities include:

• Posting and replying to classmates on the discussion forums on the assigned topics / activities
• Media project (creation of a piece of educational media such as a short screencast, podcast or YouTube video)
• Final project (some options include a portfolio or blog of your experience in this course or a course plan on how you will integrate learning technologies into your teaching).