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This overview provides you with information about the
course.
Revised
January 2004
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Instructor
Education |
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B.A. Radio,
Television, Film, San Francisco State University
M.A.
Broadcast Communication Arts, San Francisco State
University
Ph.D. Instructional Technology, Syracuse
University
Background
Dr. Saba teaches
courses in design, development and production of instructional
and learning systems. His research and development interests
focus on design, implementation and evaluation of distance
education programs.
He is the
founder of Distance Educator.com
(http://www.distance-educator.com), a
source of service, news, and information to professionals
since 1995 .
With 30
years of experience, Dr. Saba has been involved in all aspects
of distance education from policy analysis and development to
the design and implementation of large-scale systems. His
current projects include assisting a Swedish company to
establish a nationwide distance education system in the US,
and assisting the College of Extended Studies at San Diego
State University to expand its distance education
programs.
He served
as the Managing Director of Educational Radio and Television
of Iran from 1973 until 1978 and the Director of
Telecommunications Division, The University of Connecticut
form 1980 to 1984. He has managed large-scale training
projects and presented in professional conferences in many
countries including Afghanistan, The People's Republic of
China, Great Britain, France, Malaysia, Mexico, Switzerland
(The United Nations), Sweden and Turkey.
Dr. Saba
serves on the Editorial Board of The American Journal of
Distance Education, and The International Review of Research
in Distance and Open Learning. He reviews manuscripts for
major publishers such as Simon and Schuster, Prentice-Hall,
and Wadsworth. As a past President of the International
Division of the Association for Educational Communications and
Technology (AECT), he currently serves on the advisory board
of the Division. Dr. Saba's scholarly publications have been
honored by several international awards including the Charles
A. Wedemeyer Award (American Journal of Distance Education)
and AECT's Educational Technology Research and Development
Journal Award. |
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| Description
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| Texts
| Grading
| Submitting
Assignments |
Welcome
to EDTEC 653! If you registered in this course
and accessing the course for the first time, click
on Access
to eClass Portal on the upper left hand side
of the screen.
1- Complete "Sing
into the course" website.
2- Go
to module 1 and follow the instruction.
For future
access to the course simply click on Access
to eClass Portal and go to the desired module
or another section of the course. |
 Course
Description |
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EDTEC 653, Cyberculture and Learning Systems provides a
comprehensive conceptual and practical view of
development and production of learning systems in the
contemporary media environment. This perspective
includes dramatic, narrative and performing arts in
self-organized learning systems.
The course includes two sets of learning
activities:
- Structure of dramatic, narrative, and
performing arts will be analyzed in relation to
prevailing learning theories to understand their
components, and how they affect learning.
- A system dynamics approach to
cybermedia and cyberculture
will be introduced to see how these components could
be used in designing learning systems in rich-media
environments made possible by advanced platforms, such
as Internet2.
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Goals |
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You will be able to:
1- Use an advance hardware/software platform to
design and present a technology demonstration.
2- Apply principles of complex adaptive systems in
developing and producing a course project.
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1- Identify an issue in application of
multimedia to instruction and learning
2- Write a narrative describing the issue
3- Develop a learning system addressing the issue
4- Produce a multimedia system based on the selected
issue, using an advance platform
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| Texts |
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Following is a list of recommended books from
which you must select at least one for your book
report.
Recommended Books
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Alessi,
S. M., and Trollip, S. R. (2001). Multimedia
for learning:
Methods and development |
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Edition.).
Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon. |
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Allen, S. (2001). Vulgarians at the gate: Trash
TV and raunch radio, raising the standard
of popular |
| culture. Amherst, NY: Prometheus. |
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Borgmann, A. (1999). Holding on to reality:
The nature of information at the turn
of the millennium. |
| Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press. |
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Gabler, N. (1998). Life the movie: How entertainment
conquered reality. New York, NY:
Alfred Knopf. |
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Gibson,
S. B., Oviedo. O. O. (Eds). (2000). The
emerging cyberculture: Literacy, paradigm
and |
| paradox.
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. |
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Hayles, N. (1999). How we became posthuman:
Virtual bodies in cybernetics, literature,
and |
| informatics. Chicago, IL: University of
Chicago Press |
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Hooks,
M. E., & Kendrick, M. R. (2003). Eloquent
images: Word and image in the age of
new media. |
| Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press |
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Packer, R., & Jordan, K. (2001). Multimedia:
From Wagner to virtual reality.
NY: Norton. |
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Manovich, L. (2001). The language of media.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press |
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Murray, J. (1997). Hamlet on the holodeck:
The future of narrative in cyberspace.
New York, NY: The |
| Free Press. |
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Turow,
J., & Kavanaugh, A. L. (2003). The
wired homestead: An MIT sourcebook on
the Internet and |
| family.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press |
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| Grading |
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| Establishing baseline
knowledge about System Dynamics approach to
cybermedia and cyberculture |
30 Points |
| Book Report |
20 Points |
| Course Project |
25 Points |
| Final Exam |
25 Points |
Letter Grades
| A |
A- |
B+ |
B |
B- |
C+ |
C |
C - |
| 93-100 |
90-92 |
87-89 |
83-86 |
80-82 |
77-79 |
73-76 |
70-72 |
In order to acknowledge achievements and monitor
student progress, the Department needs a realistic and
meaningful system for grading performance. The
University and the professional community expect the
Department to maintain standards that reflect its
reputation as one of the foremost programs of its type
in the country.
According to the University's Graduate
Bulletin,
A means outstanding achievement;
available for only the highest
accomplishment;
B means praiseworthy
performance; definitely above average;
C
means average, awarded for satisfactory performance.
In general, professors in the department award
"A" grades to acknowledge achievements that go beyond
specified course requirements and criteria. By its very
nature, this type of performance cannot always be
spelled out clearly in advance. A's are reserved for
special efforts that exceed expectations, that
demonstrate exceptional creativity, boldness,
commitment, involvement, ingenuity, or elegance.
Incomplete
Policy
Given the-real time nature of most of the
activities of this course receiving an incomplete grade
is not a realistic option. |
| Submitting
Assignments |
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You will submit all of your assignment within
the course web environment, except your Course
Project.
Similar to EDTEC 541, you should create a website
for your Course Project hosted on ROHAN . If you already
have an account on ROHAN, create a new folder
for EDTEC 653.
If you do not have an account on ROHAN, access
the directions for setting up an account,
establish your account, and then proceed to
create your website. |
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