Digital education
Summary
This course addresses the relationship between specific technological features and the learners' cognitive processes. It also covers the methods and results of empirical studies on this topic: do student actually learn due to technologies?
Content
- Learning theories and learning processes.
- Types of learning technlogies
- Instructional design: methods, patterns and principles.
- On-line education.
- Effectiveness of learning technologies.
- Methods for empirical research.
- Computational thinkiing skills
- Maker spaces
Keywords
learning, pedagogy, teaching, online education, maker spaces
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Describe the learning processes triggered by a technology-based activity
- Explain how a technology feature influences learning processes
- Elaborate a study that measures the learning effects of a digital environment
- Select appropriately a learning technology given the target audience and the expected learning outcomes
Transversal skills
- Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.
Teaching methods
The course will combine participatory lectures with a project around learning analytics
Expected student activities
The project will include a few milestones to be delivered along the semester.
Assessment methods
- Project + exam
- 50 / 50
Supervision
| Office hours | No |
| Assistants | Yes |
| Forum | Yes |
In the programs
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Semester: Fall
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Lecture: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks