H880 Technology and Learning: Opening Up Education
Develop your ability to act as an effective professional within the broad field of technology-enhanced teaching and training.
Duration
9 weeksWeekly study
19 hours
H880 Technology and Learning: Opening Up Education
Develop your ability as an effective technology-enhanced learning practitioner
Third course in the Postgraduate Certificate in Online and Distance Education. The four courses that make up this qualification offer experience of a range of learning technologies, enabling you to explore the processes of designing, implementing and critiquing e-learning and the ideas that underpin these processes.
You’ll examine the use of technologies from different contexts and develop your skills in using evidence to recommend specific technologies. By the end of your studies, you’ll have developed your skills, knowledge and practice in relation to digital learning, teaching and training.
What topics will you cover?
In this third course, you’ll cover:
- openness in education
- roles and responsibilities of a 21st-century educator
- open educational resources (OER)
- open educational practices (OEP)
- open pedagogy, critical digital pedagogy and open assessment
- personal learning networks
- action research
- meeting the needs of diverse learners
- accessibility.
Learning on this course
On every step of the course you can meet other learners, share your ideas and join in with active discussions in the comments.
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of choices that practitioners make about ways of applying technologies for a variety of learners across the globe in education, training or professional development.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of choices that learners make about their own learning, in terms of which technologies they use, why and how.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of current debates and some of the key theories that practitioners draw on in the field of technology-enhanced learning.
- Demonstrate knowledge and understanding of a range of conventional and innovative technologies, drawing on your own experience and the experience of other students and professionals in technology-enhanced learning.
- Use and evaluate particular technologies and tools for individual and collaborative learning.
- Critically evaluate differing explanations and arguments in the field of TEL.
- Use these differing perspectives to make sense of your own and others’ experience of learning with technologies.
- Draw on a wide range of experience, accounts and formal research evidence to recommend appropriate ways of using technologies in specific contexts.
- Locate, read critically and extract value from a wide range of formal and informal sources, including those mediated by new forms of technology.
- Interpret and discuss the implications – for research, policy and practice – of quantitative and qualitative findings.
- Articulate your ideas, proposals and arguments for differing audiences and contexts.
- Take responsibility for your current and future learning and practice within a supportive framework of your peers and tutor.
- Act as a creative and effective professional within the broad field of TEL.
- Draw on a range of evidence to support the choices you make in designing learning activities or creating a specification for a module or training-package.
- Participate in online networks and communities to enrich your personal and professional development.
- Seek out ideas and insights from the leading edge of practice and research relevant to your interests or professional concerns in technology-enhanced learning.
Who is the course for?
This course is for everyone with a professional interest in digital or technology-enhanced learning. You’ll study it after completing H880 Technology and Learning: Adapting to Contexts.
What software or tools do you need?
A computing device with a browser and broadband internet access is required for this module. Any modern browser will be suitable for most computer activities.
Any additional software will be provided, or is generally freely available. However, some activities may have more specific requirements. For this reason, you will need to be able to install and run additional software on a device that meets the requirements below.
A desktop or laptop computer with either:
- Windows 7 or higher
- Mac OS 10.7 or higher
The screen of the device must have a resolution of at least 1024 pixels horizontally and 768 pixels vertically.
To participate in our online discussion area you will need both a microphone and speakers/headphones.
Who will you learn with?
Dr Leigh-Anne Perryman leads The Open University's Masters in Online Teaching programme. Her research explores the relationship between equity, social justice, online teaching and open pedagogies.
I'm a professor at The Open University, focused on educational futures, learning analytics, MOOCs, innovating pedagogy & online social learning.
I am Professor of Educational Technology at the OU. My interests are in digital scholarship, open education, OER and MOOCs.
I've been researching and teaching about educational technology for 20 years, particularly the role of digital identity and presence in online collaboration.
Who developed the course?
The Open University
As the UK’s largest university, The Open University (OU) supports thousands of students to achieve their goals and ambitions via supported distance learning, helping to fit learning around professional and personal life commitments.
Established
1969Location
Milton Keynes, UKWorld ranking
Top 510Source: Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2020
Learning on FutureLearn
Your learning, your rules
- Courses are split into weeks, activities, and steps to help you keep track of your learning
- Learn through a mix of bite-sized videos, long- and short-form articles, audio, and practical activities
- Stay motivated by using the Progress page to keep track of your step completion and assessment scores
Join a global classroom
- Experience the power of social learning, and get inspired by an international network of learners
- Share ideas with your peers and course educators on every step of the course
- Join the conversation by reading, @ing, liking, bookmarking, and replying to comments from others
Map your progress
- As you work through the course, use notifications and the Progress page to guide your learning
- Whenever you’re ready, mark each step as complete, you’re in control
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