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DLRNG500-23A (NET)
Debates in Digital Learning and Educational Technology
30 Points
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Kerry Earl Rinehart
4506
TL.3.12
kerry.earlrinehart@waikato.ac.nz
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Kerry Earl Rinehart
4506
TL.3.12
kerry.earlrinehart@waikato.ac.nz
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What this paper is about
This paper provides an opportunity for people in a range of fields to explore contemporary theories and debates, practice, policy and research in educational technology and/or digital learning. Students will engage in situational analysis of communication, connections and competencies in their own contexts to interrogate trends and issues of practice. Critiquing possibilities and future thinking will lead students to innovate in practice, and prepare for Master’s research in the field of educational technology and/or digital learning.
Trends and debates.
Participants in the course will identify the particular trends and debates that will be topics in this paper. Possibilities include:
Adoption of new DT innovations in Education, Hybrid learning, Digital literacy, AI, Enhanced human capabilities, Mobile (everything), Everyone is a knowledge producer, Cybersecurity, Data storage and big analytics, Privacy and surveillance and problems of practice such as inequity, colonisation, and exclusion.
How this paper will be taught
This paper is fully online. Most activity is asynchronous (not occurring at the same time) in the Moodle forum for this paper. Please plan for a minimum of 10 hours per week for your time engaging with online activities and resources and a 20-25 hours average in this paper.
Each Monday an Announcement will be posted about the expectations and learning activities for the week. This notice is in Announcements in Moodle and a copy arrives in the inbox of the email address that we have for you on record.
It is expected that students will undertake required reading, independent reading, note taking study and other assigned course or assignment related work each week.
This is a 30 point paper. Since points bear a direct relationship to workload, one point equates to approximately 10 hours' total work, so a student might expect to spend about 300 hours in total during a semester. For this paper, this means 20-25 hours per week for reading, research, contributing to online discussions, and working on assignments.
Required Readings
We highly recommend you access Selwyn, Neil (2011). Education and Technology: Key Issues and Debates, as a useful text.
Other readings for this course are managed by the university’s online Reading List Talis Aspire system. This means you do not need to purchase a readings book for this course. Specific recommendations will be made for each topic from the Reading List to get you started.
NB: It is expected that participants will make substantial use of online databases and other digital and nondigital sources in researching widely for assignments and tasks.
Learning Outcomes
Students who successfully complete the course should be able to:
Assessments
How you will be assessed
In order to be eligible for a pass in this course students are required to complete ALL four pieces of assessment. These should be submitted via Moodle by the deadline stated.
In recognition of the status of the Māori language as a tāonga protected under the Treaty of Waitangi, and within the spirit of the Māori Language Act 1987, the University of Waikato endorses the right of its students to use the Māori language in written work for assessment within the University. If you intend to present all or part of an internally assessed work in Māori you are requested to give at least 14 days’ notice of this intention of doing so in writing to your lecturer. This helps ensure that we have the time and opportunity to make proper arrangements for marking including, when necessary, translation and external assessment. If less than 14 days' notice is given, the material presented in Māori will still be accepted. The processing of it may, however, be delayed and the opportunity to have the script marked in the original language may be reduced.
General instructions are included below. However, further guidance and a Q&A forum specific to each assessment task will be made available via Moodle.
All assignments are submitted online through Moodle by the due dates. If you cannot meet the deadline for a significant reason you need to follow the procedures outlined below in requesting extensions. Submitted work will be marked and returned to you via Moodle.
Please see individual assessment components for details about assessment measurement. The schedule of grades used by the University for the final total of marks is as follows: A+ 90-100; A 85-89; A- 80-84; B+ 75-79; B 70-74; B- 65-69; C+ 60-64; C 55-59; C- 50-54; D 40-49; E 0-39; IC Incomplete; RP Restricted pass.
The internal assessment/exam ratio (as stated in the University Calendar) is 100:0. There is no final exam.