This course will give you hands on experience with, and allow you to make a critical evaluation of a number of the computer-based technologies that are currently used in distance education.
The following are some of the technologies examined during the course.
- Electronic portfolios
- Asynchronous tools
- Synchronous tools
- Social software educational tools
- Computer based education
- Web 2.0 applications
- Mobile applications
- Cloud computing, virtualization and green computing
- To gain hands-on experience with, and undertake a critical evaluation of a variety of educational technologies.
- To learn to apply media attribute schema and Bates ACTIONS/SECTIONS criteria to various media.
- To apply adoption theories to a particular technology that could be used in your own local teaching/learning context.
- Using computer mediated instruction to learn the basics of HTML5 https://sites.google.com/site/timbulger/homepage/mde610-portfolio
- Prepare a SECTIONS analysis table that examines how each of the technologies covered in this course might be used in the course described in assignment one.
- A Proposal to Implement a System to Record and Web Broadcast Medical Grand Rounds