Courses

KENNESAW STATE UNIVERSITY, Courses taught from fall 2018 to present, Kennesaw, GA

Capstone Experience and Portfolio, ITEC 7500 | *Course Coordinator

This three-credit hour course represents the culminating experience for the initial-certification programs in Instructional Technology. Through the creation of a portfolio, students document mastery of the Georgia PSC Instructional Technology standards. The portfolio documents the candidate’s ability to provide technology facilitation at the building level as well as their expertise as an Instructional Technology educator. The portfolio serves as a systematic, reflection-in-action approach to problem solving and decision-making, providing a detailed authentic picture of the candidate’s professional practice and reflective analysis of the integration of courses taken supported by theory. Changes in classroom practices and vision are included.

Foundations of Visual Design for Learning, LDT 3200 | *Course Designer and Coordinator

This three-credit hour course enables students to develop foundational visual communication design skills related to instructional design. With a focus on visual design, typography, grid structures, and the application of these skills to achieve specific instructional and learner goals, students use industry-standard technologies to demonstrate visual design proficiencies. Students create effective instructional and learner artifacts through sketching, digital rendering, and apply instructional design practices and processes.

Special Topics: Designing Learning Spaces, ITEC 7555 | *Course Designer and Coordinator

This three-credit hour course is an elective within the Master of Education, Educational Specialist, and Educational Doctorate degree programs in the Bagwell College of Education. The purpose of this course is to demonstrate one’s ability to evaluate learning spaces, redesign existing learning spaces, and coach others in active learning pedagogies specific to active learning classrooms. This course is designed to encompass a variety of learning spaces, including informal, formal, online, and makerspaces. All major assignments are project-based and authentic to one’s own professional context. Peer feedback and communication is integrated throughout the course to build a community of learners. This course is intended to provide students with the necessary skills and knowledge to become a resident expert in active learning space pedagogies, practices, and learning space design. 

Teaching, Learning, and Technology, ITEC 8510 | *Course Coordinator

This course introduces candidates to technology supported instructional models and strategies to maximize student learning. Candidates will develop digital-age learning experiences for students that incorporate research-based best practices, assessment, differentiation, diversity, and cultural understanding while advancing student technology literacy.

Improving Learning with Technology in the High School Classroom, ITEC 3300 | *Course Coordinator

Teacher candidates learn to use technologies to promote student achievement in high school content area and technology literacy standards. Special topics include using technology to improve students’ English language learning, to assess student learning, and to differentiate instruction. Candidates also learn to manage their digital activities in ways appropriate for a professional educator; advocate for students without beyond-school access; and teach K-12 students how to use technology safely, ethically, and legally. This is a three-credit (3) course.

Issues and Trends in Instructional Technology, ITEC 8500

This course provides candidates an overview of the field of instructional technology including history, research and current trends and issues. Candidates develop strategies for keeping abreast of instructional technology issues and trends, engage in the professional literature of the field and research a current trend or issue in the field. Additionally, candidates develop a proposal for their Capstone Project for the program.

Introduction to Online Learning, ITEC 7480 

This course explores principles for effective online and blended learning and provides an introduction to key terms, issues, policies, challenges, and emerging trends in the field. Topics include published standards for quality online teaching and course design, accessibility to online courses, online assessment principles, accommodations for students with disabilities, strategies for supporting cultural and linguistic diversity, internet safety, student privacy and copyright. Candidates learn pedagogical strategies for use in an online learning environment and apply them to their certification field.