Courses

Future Learning Spaces

This graduate level course explores three inter-related concepts: Future, Learning, and Spaces. Throughout the semester, students engage in collaborative learning activities and academic writing as they build a knowledge building community as 'Future Learning Spaces' scholars. The course is conducted within a newly designed 'Future Learning Space' at the University of Haifa. We use both the physical and online learning spaces in highly innovative and connected ways to give students a strong experiential basis for their knowledge building.

313.4549. Educational Technologies Program, Faculty of Education, UH: Fall semester, 2015-2016; 2016-2017, Spring semester 2017-2018

Breaking the Walls of the Classroom: The Future of Education

This BA level course, intended for students earning their teaching certificate deals with the changes to the way people learn in the networked society, and what this means for schools and classrooms. The course is broken into three sections: (a) Learning in the networked society, with a focus on societal changes that are relevant to learning and education; (b) Principles of learning as expressed by the learning sciences; (c) Practical examples of innovative courses or learning units.

313.3109. Dept. of Instruction, Learning, and Teacher Instruction. Faculty of Education, UH: Fall and Spring, 2016-2017; Fall and Spring, 2017-2018

Learning Communities

This graduate course - which has been taught both online and in a hybrid manner - deals with both the theory and practice of learning communities. To integrate between the content that we study as well as the processes by which we learn, the participants in this course function as a Humanistic Knowledge Building Community. As part of the 'humanistic' part of the community - what we call person-centered - the students engage in encounter group activities that focus on their learning about self. As part of the 'knowledge building' part of the community - what we call idea-centered - the students engage in activities aimed at advancing their collective knowledge.

313.4640. Dept. of Instruction, Learning, and Teacher Instruction. Faculty of Education, UH: Spring semester, 2016-2017; Fall semester 2017-2018

Advanced Seminar in the Learning Sciences

This course was designed for advanced graduate students who are interested in broadening their perspective on the learning sciences. Each week, we read and discuss a chapter from the Handbook of the Learning Sciences, a relevant NAPLES Webinar, and/or with the actual authors of the chapters. We have developed a course Wiki to continue collaboration throughout each week.

313.4538. Educational Technologies Program, Faculty of Education, UH: Co-Teacher with Prof. Dani Ben-Zvi, Educational Technologies Program, Faculty of Education, UH, Fall and Spring, 2014-2015,

Challenges and Approaches to Technology-Enhanced Learning and Teaching

What is learning? Who am I as a learner? What is the influence of new media on teaching and learning? How do we prepare students for a constantly changing world? What is a community of learners? What is the role of educational technologies in learning? These are just some of the curiosity-raising questions that we deal with in this introductory course to the Learning Sciences. This course is designed for graduate students and is a required course for all students in the Educational Technologies Program.

313.4500. Educational Technologies Program, Faculty of Education, UH: Co-Teacher with Prof. Dani Ben-Zvi Faculty of Education, 2012-2013, Semester A / Co-Teacher with Prof. Yael Kali, 2011-2012 / Teaching Assistant with Prof. Dani Ben-Zvi, 2010-2011.

Project-based learning

This graduate level course explores both the theoretical foundation and design aspects around project-based learning. After several weeks where we lay the theoretical foundation for topic, students lead their own sessions where they explore different examples of PBL and enact them with the other students. The final project is a collaboratively designed website that summarizes students' learning in the course.

313.4592. Educational Technologies Program, Faculty of Education, UH: Co-Teacher with Prof. Dani Ben-Zvi, Faculty of Education, 2010-2011