EDS542 LEARNING SCIENCE: FOUNDATIONS AND APPLICATIONS
| Course Code: | 4540542 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Educational Sciences |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Assoc.Prof.Dr. EVRİM BARAN JOVANOVİC |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
- examine approaches, models, and theories on the science of learning
- investigate research methodologies used to study learning sciences
- analyze contemporary issues in the field of learning sciences
- develop capacity to review and critique learning sciences research
- participate to the scholarly conversation on learning theories and sciences foundations and applications
Course Content
A comparative study of learning backgrounds and contemporary theories of learning and discussion of learning-teaching relationships.
Course Learning Outcomes
- explain various models on contemporary learning sciences.
- discuss approaches, models, and theories on the science of learning
- describe research methodologies used to study learning sciences.
- Present the implicatations of learning sciences research findings.
- locate research literature on contemporary issues in the field of learning sciences
- synthesize research literature on contemporary issues in the field of learning sciences
- identify gaps in learning sciences research.
- attend to the community of practice in te field of learning sciences.