CEIT566 TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND EDUCATIONAL APPLICATIONS
| Course Code: | 4300566 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Computer Education and Instructional Technology |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Lecturer Dr. HASAN KARAASLAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall or Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- describe current leading-edge work in educational telecommunications in K-12 and higher education,
- depict the ways in which learning and teaching across barriers of distance and time are similar to -- and different from -- face-to-face instruction,
- gain fluency in using various interactive media (asynchronous threaded discussion sites, synchronous multi-user virtual environments, groupware, interactive presentational media, videoconferencing), instructional frameworks and applications,
- experience how each medium for interacting across distance shapes the cognitive, affective, and social dimensions of learning,
- critique research studies in educational telecommunications, and
- discuss how innovations such as the World Wide Web, multi-user virtual environments, computer-supported collaborative learning, and online communities are shaping the evolution of distance education and distributed learning.
Course Content
Function of educational telecommunications. Technologies used within educational telecommunications. Techniques and methods used in the planning, development and implementation of educational telecommunications. Research in educational telecommunications
Course Learning Outcomes
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