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ED5151: Educational Technology and Online Learning (5)

Course starts fall, winter/spring and summer, if sufficient demand.
Tuition: $575 for graduate continuing education credit

This online course explores recent developments in the fields of educational technology and online learning and provides you with specialized training to facilitate online professional development workshops for K-12 teachers. You examine the possibilities and the challenges of technology-enhanced classroom teaching and learning and gain direct experience using the online asynchronous discussion environments and course-authoring tools required in the course. You learn how to effectively integrate online learning into ongoing technology professional development programs and develop a plan to facilitate your own online workshops.

You are required to complete an assigned reading and learning activity each week as well as actively participate in the online course discussion. You also are required to submit a final paper that is a self-assessment of your learning and participation in the course. All required assignments, paper and course products will be collected as an electronic portfolio which you submit as a presentation of the coursework and as documentation of learning during each week of the class.

Instructor: Leinda Peterman

ED5152: Practicum: Facilitating an Online Workshop to Integrate Technology into the K-12 Curriculum (5)

Practicum starts fall, winter/spring and summer terms.
Tuition: $575 for graduate continuing education credit

This practicum provides an opportunity to connect a theoretical background in online professional development and educational technology with practical experience facilitating an online workshop in a school district or educational organization. You select a specific online workshop focused on integrating technology into K-12 curriculum and facilitate this workshop for colleagues, under the supervision of program faculty.

You also participate in a faculty-led, semester-long, online forum with other student facilitators to share experiences and reflect on key issues in online professional development.

You are expected to complete a significant reflection paper upon completion of the practicum experience, evaluating the success, strengths and weakness of the workshop you facilitated and a self-evaluation of your role as a facilitator. The final paper also relates student work in the practicum to current research in online teaching and learning. You submit this final reflection paper as part of an electronic portfolio which also includes a significant posting on each topic in the online forum for student facilitators, an evaluation of the results of the pre- and post-workshop surveys and a sample of participant postings and products from the online workshop you facilitated.

Instructor: Barbara Treacy

ED5153: Designing and Delivering Online Courses (5)

Course starts fall, winter/spring and summer terms.
Tuition: $575 for graduate continuing education credit

This online course, focused primarily on curriculum development, prepares you to develop standards-based curriculum specifically tailored to the online environment. During the course, you are guided through the process of defining course goals, readings, activities, discussion questions, assessment and alignment to state and national standards. You examine theories of online learning and exemplary curriculum development and prepare a series of short reflective papers focused on the challenges, opportunities and strategies for online teaching and learning.

You complete the course by developing content for a semester-long or full-year online course for either the high school or college level. The course provides all of the course-authoring tools, Web hosting and mentoring needed to enable you to create and run effective online courses that address the specific needs of your students. You submit an electronic portfolio, which includes the syllabus, goals, rationale and plan for delivery of your online curriculum.

Instructor: Kirsten Peterson

ED5154: Practicum: Delivering Online Courses (5)

Course starts fall, winter/spring and summer terms.
Tuition: $575 for graduate continuing education credit

This practicum course supports you as you learn to deliver online curriculum to students at the high school or college level. You participate in a faculty-led, semester-long, seminar-like online forum which explores critical issues in online course delivery. Topics the practicum addresses include developing online assignments, monitoring student progress, assessment, building an online learning community as well as practical issues of online course delivery.

You prepare a series of reflective papers evaluating critical issues in online course delivery and a self-assessment of your role as an online instructor. You also submit at least one complete curriculum unit presented in the online course, with an evaluation of its strengths and weaknesses and examples of student work completed in this unit.

Instructor: Kirsten Peterson

Upon completion of the program, you receive a joint certificate from Antioch University Seattle and the Education Development Center.