LIS-S 604 Design for Informal Learning Environments Section 45508
Librarians are increasingly asked to facilitate learning. Facilitated learning within libraries traditionally took place in story times, book clubs, crafts, and information literacy sessions. Although these traditional services are still needed, library professionals are challenged to design and facilitate learning environments that are less structured and more emergent with the use of digital tools and technology that support the knowledge acquisition, creation, refinement and sharing.
This course serves as one of the two learning design core courses in the Facilitated Learning Specialization, emphasizing facilitation in informal settings (i.e., public libraries, museums). The first learning design core course is LIS-S 574 Information Instruction. As such, students must take LIS-S 574 or have a teaching license prior to taking this course. Additionally, students are required to bring the final assignment from LIS-S 574 or a video record of their instruction delivery from prior professional experience to analyze. In this course, students extend beyond what they learned in LIS-S 574 to explore, analyze, and apply past and current theories and methods of learning and teaching used in diverse informal learning settings involving youth, adults, families, and community members.
LIS-S 604: Facilitating Learning with Technology Section 45500
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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