Cognition, Collaboration, and Technology

Course Description

This seminar will tackle these questions as we consider cognitive, constructivist, and sociocultural approaches to learning and teaching with technology. A myriad of educational technology has been developed over the last decade, much of it based on psychological research on how people think and learn. We will explore a number of technologies ranging from those that provide information such as hypermedia to technologies that support collaborative learning to those that provide expressive media for learners. We will discuss factors that are important to the success and failures of these approaches as well as explore the research issues inherent in these learning environments. We will examine the nature of knowledge construction, collaboration, and distributed cognition by discussing the relevant literature, and by demonstrations of different examples of these technologies. In addition, we will consider some of the Web 2.0 technologies and look to the future to see how these might be important to education.

Code

15:262:622

Credits

3

Subject

262

Programs That Include This Course

• Doctoral Doctor of Education (Ed.D.) Programs - For Students Entering before 2025
• Doctoral Ed.D. Concentration in Designing Learning Environments