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IDT 590: Current Topics in Instructional Design and Technology

Course Description

This course examines some of the current topics in IDT such as accessibility and universal design, learning environments, and project management. Students will analyze issues affecting current and future implementations of instructional design. Current research on topics IDT will be emphasized.

MCO Objectives Met

COURSE GOALS

1. This course will help the students to have not only a growing awareness of ability, but to actively pursue ways to make their designs more accessible to more people with the realization that space and accessibility matter.

 

2. This course will help the students to be able to do independent investigation, research, and evaluation on new trends and ideas in ID. (i.e., lifelong learners)

 

3. This course will help students learn new and useful methods of collaboration with peers, abut also how to better communicate with diverse groups of people in order to get things done as a team. (i.e. project management)

 

SIGNIFICANT LEARNING GOALS

Foundational Knowledge: What key ideas or perspectives are important for students to understand in this course?

  1. Remember the idea behind universal design is to make your content more accessible to more people.

  2. Understand how space and environment effects learning.

  3. Identify the basic steps of project management.

 

Application: What kinds of thinking are important to learn?

  1. Make decisions about how to best incorporate UID principles into their projects.

  2. Analyze new trends and technology for appropriateness.

  3. Manage project management tools and timelines.

 

Integration: What are the connections between material in this course and student’s personal, social, and work life?

  1. Connect the concepts in UID to their current workplace responsibilities.

  2. Relate process of project management to the profession.

  3. Connect the activities of finding, researching, and education others about new trends in instructional design.

 

Human Dimension: What should students learn about understanding and interacting with others?

  1. Understand others in terms of how accessibility effects learning.

 

Caring: What to see change in the student’s feelings, interests, and values?

  1. To be more interested in helping to support people learning new ideas.

  2. Be more interested and effective at collaborative learning.

 

Learning How To Learn: How to become a self-directed learner?

  1. Identify sources of information on trends in ID.

  2. Be able to construct knowledge about how research connects and encourages best practices.

Significant Assignments

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