CEP 800: Learning in Schools and Other Settings
This course will acquaint students with several major psychological perspectives for appreciating learning that goes on in school and other settings. Students will also connect theories of learning to their own experiences as learners – inside this course, in other courses, on the job, and in other settings. By constantly examining the relationship between the ideas about learning introduced in this course and the learning situations in the students’ world outside of this course, students will find greater meaning and significance in both. We consider implications of these perspectives for practice, particularly the practice in your field.
CEP 810: Teaching for Understanding with Technology
The core products for this course include:
- A personal educational introduction
- Educational applications of Word, PowerPoint, and Excel
- A lesson plan using the Internet as an integral tool
- An analysis of a technology innovation in education
- A presentation arguing aspects of the appropriateness of technology use in educational settings
CEP 811: Adapting Innovative Technology to Education
The core products for this course include:
- An educational web page
- A stand-alone instructional resource focused on a grade level and content that is selected by the participant. Upon completion of the course, this resource is generally ready for use by participants’ own students focused on content in the participants’ own classes.
- A WebQuest
- A blog
CEP 812: Applying Educational Technology to Practice
The core products for this course include:
- A personal technology plan
- Special Interest Group presentation and annotated research summary on topics selected by participants
- The design, implementation, and evaluation of a technology-based project that addresses an existing educational problem or opportunity in participants’ own educational settings.
- A podcast
CEP 813: Electronic Portfolios for Teaching and Learning
Portfolios have a long tradition in education. In recent years the portfolio concept has broadened to encompass a range of meanings from a collection of elementary school children’s writings in a folder to more elaborate teaching portfolios prepared by preservice or inservice teachers. Most recently, the power of the portfolio concept has been amplified and extended further through the creation of “electronic portfolios” that are created and shared on the Web. The premise of this course is that electronic portfolios on the Web offer teachers and students an extraordinary new medium for self-expression and for creating a nation of writers, poets, and artists who gather authentic work over time and share it with a worldwide audience. In this course you will learn about the wide variety of meanings and applications of electronic portfolios in education. And you will apply what you learn by creating your own electronic portfolio on the Web. Thus the course will have two parts: learning and doing.
CEP 820: Teaching K-12 Students Online
Examining ways in which educators can bring the world into their classrooms with technology to better meet the educational needs of students across the lifespan. The course focuses on ways in which teachers and students can broadcast their ideas and information to the outside world for purposes of collaboration and communication. The course includes discussions of various online learning management systems including their functions, strengths, and weaknesses along with the exploration of various teaching methodologies and how they should be used in the online environment to ensure teaching and learning success.
CEP 822: Approaches to Educational Research
Alternative methods of educational research. Identifying researchable problems in education and developing a research proposal. Applications of descriptive and inferential statistics for analyzing and critiquing published studies.
TE 846: Accommodating Differences in Literacy Learners
Developmental processes, instructional practices, and assessment principles that contribute to effective learning of reading and writing. Teaching methods for accommodating the different needs of individual literacy learners.
(TE 846 can be used to satisfy the new reading requirement for the Michigan Professional Certificate.)
(TE 846 can be used to satisfy the new reading requirement for the Michigan Professional Certificate.)