ED 795B Seminar in Educational Technology

Course Description & Overview

ED 795B is about your future. You have invested a tremendous amount of time and effort to reach this course! It will provide you with an opportunity to consolidate your knowledge and experience for taking full advantage of what you have learned in your future career, both in the short and the long term. In doing so, you will:

1- Develop a new web-based e-Portfolio, or update and refine an existing one.

2- Develop scenarios in which you vision the future of technology and how it might impact your career in the next 5, 10 and 20 years.

3- Select a book from a list of approved textbooks for this course and discuss it in the book discussion forum.

And depending on your interest:

4.1- Attend lectures by invited presenters among EDTEC Alumni as well as other professionals in the field

OR

4.2- Engage in a project of your choosing based on a learning contract that you negotiate and sign with the instructor.

These components are designed to make your professional development smoother and make you more competitive in the world of work. They are also to increase your ability to keep current with the knowledge base of educational technology and stay informed about contemporary changes in theory, research, technology and practice.
Course Format

The format of ED 795B will include lectures and discussions on course topics, and demonstrations of specific software. You will spend the majority of your time refining your e-Portfolio, or creating a new one, as well as engaging in scenario building and future visioning exercises. (Sample of e-Portfolios)

If you have developed a portfolio in EDTEC 541, review it as soon as possible, and make sure that it is still functional. If you do not have a portfolio, you must collect your resume, projects that you have developed in your program, and other materials that demonstrate your skills for inclusion in a new e-Portfolio.

Also, It is important that you start taking stock of all the class notes you have taken, as well as books, or chapters in books, journal articles, websites, and other information resources that you consider to be key in your personal knowledge base. Your success in this course, in part, is based on how you can organize your resources and make use of them in your e-Portfolio.