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CEIT718 EMERGING LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS AND TECHNOLOGIES

Course Objectives

At the end of the course, students will:

• Explain and demonstrate the educational benefits and potential of emerging learning environments and technologies
• Follow, discuss and report trends in emerging learning technologies.
• Evaluate learning technology trends and problems from broader psychological, social, cultural and educational perspectives.
• Examine books and software, as well as review articles on emerging learning environments and technologies and present about the work.
• Use and create digital resources (e.g. videos, e-books) in various educational tools and environments.
• Obtain the skills to train fellow teachers as well as learners in emerging learning technologies and pedagogically effective instructional activities and approaches.
• Write a systematic literature review research project related to one of the emerging instructional technologies.

Course Content

Future of education and education of future, digitalization in education, e-learning, open courseware movement and massive open online courses, social media and personal learning networks, mobile and ubiquitous learning, augmented reality and virtual reality in education, game-based learning and gamification,adaptive learning, learning analytics, technology enhanced learning environments(e.g. makerspaces, fablabs), IoT and wearables, AI, robotics and personal digital assistants and educational neuroscience.

Course Learning Outcomes

• Weekly online discussions via LMS forums- %12
• Technology demo and review presentation- %10
• Student weekly presentation of the topic in her/his field- %10
• Midterm: MOOC review, video production or e-book production: %20
• Final Project (Systematic Literature Review): %42
• Participation: 6%