For three decades and longer we have heard educators and technologists making a case for the transformative power of technology in learning. However, despite the rhetoric, in many ways and at most institutional sites, education is still relatively untouched by technology. Even when technologies are introduced, the changes sometimes seem insignificant and the results seem disappointing. If the print textbook is replaced by an e-book, do the social relations of knowledge and learning necessarily change at all or for the better? If the pen-and-paper test is mechanized, does this change the nature of our assessment systems? Technology, in other words, need not necessarily bring significant change. Technology might not even represent a step forward in education.
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e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age
University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignAbout this Course
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Module 1: Course Orientation + Ubiquitous Learning
Module 2: Active Knowledge Making + Multimodal Meaning
Module 3: Recursive Feedback + Collaborative Intelligence
Module 4: Metacogniton + Differentiated Learning
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