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COURSE SYLLABUS
1. TITLE OF COURSE: Teaching, Learning, and Technology
PREFIX/NUMBER: EDU 261 CREDIT HOURS: 3
2. PREREQUISITE: REA 090 or permission of the instructor
3. RESOURCES NEEDED:
TEXT: TBA
SUPPLIES:
4. COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Prepares students to integrate technology into their teaching curriculum. Enables the student to design educational and training materials incorporating instructional technology. Explores a variety of technologies, including the computer, Internet, multimedia, graphics, audio, and text with an emphasis on increasing learning through their use. Examines combining technology with a variety of instructional methodologies.
5. COURSE GOAL:
To stimulate interest in technology and demonstrate ways to integrate technology into specific disciplines. To provide the basic skills to use computers and other technologies with a variety of teaching and learning strategies to enhance student learning. To impart skills in solving problems and making decisions that involve technology in educational settings. To develop insights to determine how to match appropriate technologies to learning objectives, goals, and outcomes.
6. COURSE OBJECTIVES:
I. Apply technology to the delivery of standards-based education.
II. Use technology to increase future student achievement.
III. Utilize technology to manage and communicate information.
IV. Apply technology to data-driven assessments of learning.
V. Determine appropriate use and management of technology in the classroom under various circumstances.
VI. Utilize instructional technology to support a wide variety of learners and learning styles.
VII. Explore various instructional tools and technology, including computers, video, graphics, multimedia, audio, and other media, and their contributions to the learning process.
VIII. Investigate and design a lesson using instructional technology coupled with a variety of instructional strategies, including: cooperative learning, discovery, problem solving, games, simulations, discussion, demonstration and presentation.
IX. Select the most appropriate instructional methods, materials, and media for a particular lesson or presentation.
X. Acquire instructional materials in a manner consistent with current copyright laws.
XI. Demonstrate the correct procedures for using a variety of multimedia technologies.
XII. Develop a lesson plan incorporating the use and applications of the Internet.
XIII. Discuss means to evaluate students, materials, and instruction.
XIV. Identify trends in instructional technology and speculate about the impact on the future.
XV. Prepare a teaching portfolio using examples of instructional technology methods and strategies.
7. COURSE OUTLINE:
I. How do you plan, implement, and evaluate the uses of technology in your courses or workshops?
II. What are the various instructional tools and technologies available?
III. How do you design lessons for a variety of different learners using technology?
IV. How do you select the most appropriate instructional methods and technologies that incorporate technology?
V. How do you acquire materials consistent with current copyright laws?
VI. How do you use a variety of current classroom technologies?
VII. What is computer-assisted instruction?
VIII. How do you evaluate the use of technology and materials?
IX. How do you develop a teaching portfolio that includes instructional technology?
X. What are the trends in instructional technology uses and the possible future uses?
8. METHODS OF INSTRUCTION:
To be successful in this course, students are expected to participate in discussions, readings, in-class exercises, and peer review activities. The instructor will assign point values to such activities.
9. ACADEMIC INTEGRITY:
The very nature of higher education requires that students adhere to accepted standards of academic integrity. Therefore, Pueblo Community College has adopted a policy of academic conduct as described in the Student Handbook. Violation of academic integrity may be defined to include the following: cheating, plagiarism, falsification and fabrication, abuse of academic materials, complicity in academic dishonesty, and personal misrepresentation. It is the student’s responsibility to be aware of the behaviors that constitute academic dishonesty. Sanctions for violating the standards of academic integrity may include warning, probation, suspension, and/or failure of the course or assignment at the discretion of the instructor.
10. ADA NOTICE:
Students who have a documented disability may be eligible to receive accommodations for this class. Please contact the Disability Resources Center at 549-3446 for further information.
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