Evolving and emerging technologies—such as games, simulations, artificial intelligence, AR, VR, mobile technologies, MOOCs, wikis, podcasts, ebooks, YouTube videos—provide new opportunities for learning in information institutions. Information professionals need to demonstrate technological fluency to develop tech-infused learning environments. In this course, students utilize technologies ranging from those that support information sharing and expression to technologies that support collaborative learning and information creation and evaluate how tech-infused learning environments support or hinder learning processes for different learner groups. The course provides a series of opportunities for students to gain confidence and understanding of educational technologies and their affordances for learning. As a culminating project, students design their tech-infused learning environments which will be tested, analyzed and revised.
This course serves as the technology core course in the Facilitated Learning Specialization, emphasizing the convergence of the learning theories and facilitation skills developed in one of the learning design core courses with the understanding of the educational affordances of technologies. As such, students are required to take LIS-S 574 or have obtained a teaching license prior to taking this course.
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