Digital education
Summary
This course addresses the relationship between specific technological features and the learners' cognitive processes. It also covers the methods and results of empirical studies: do student actually learn due to technologies? I will be given twice in 2025 (Spring + Fall)
Content
- Learning theories and learning processes.
- Types of learning technlogies
- Instructional design: methods, patterns and principles.
- On-line education.
- Effectiveness of learning technologies.
- Methods for empirical research.
- Computational thinkiing skills
- Maker spaces
Keywords
learning, pedagogy, teaching, online education, maker spaces
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, the student must be able to:
- Describe the learning processes triggered by a technology-based activity
- Explain how a technology feature influences learning processes
- Elaborate a study that measures the learning effects of a digital environment
- Select appropriately a learning technology given the target audience and the expected learning outcomes
Transversal skills
- Set objectives and design an action plan to reach those objectives.
- Identify the different roles that are involved in well-functioning teams and assume different roles, including leadership roles.
- Take account of the social and human dimensions of the engineering profession.
- Write a scientific or technical report.
Teaching methods
The course will combine participatory lectures with a project on designing a learning environment, using it in a controlled experiment, analysing the learning effects with statistical methods and writing a report.
Expected student activities
The project will include a few milestones to be delivered along the semester.
Assessment methods
- Project + exam
- 50 / 50
Supervision
Office hours | No |
Assistants | Yes |
Forum | Yes |
In the programs
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Exam form: Written (winter session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
- Semester: Spring
- Exam form: Written (summer session)
- Subject examined: Digital education
- Courses: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Project: 2 Hour(s) per week x 14 weeks
- Type: optional
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