HOME /

Teaching

Motivation and Learning: Technologies that Invite and Immerse

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2022

Teaching Fellow. I also served as a teaching fellow for this course in 2019 and 2020.

Professor: Chris Dede

Course Description: There is no learning without engagement, but engagement without learning is prevalent in today's digital world. This module explores the relationship between motivation (engagement, self-efficacy, growth mindset, tenacity), and learning, as exemplified via technology-based experiences. Media have long been used to excite students' enthusiasm, with mixed outcomes. Interest has grown in the area of digital games and learning, with the...

Read more about Motivation and Learning: Technologies that Invite and Immerse

The Virtual Self: Identity, Culture, and Learning in Digital Worlds

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2020

Instructor

Course Description: Digital worlds may provide endless opportunities to explore our identities, as video games, social media, and virtual reality allow users to walk in the shoes of someone who is a different race, gender, or nationality and try on characteristics that differ from their selves in the real world. In education, these media can transport learners to far off places and times, to be with people not possible in real life. But learning in such an embodied experience, immersed in a context that can feel familiar or foreign, also...

Read more about The Virtual Self: Identity, Culture, and Learning in Digital Worlds

Effectively Implementing Learning Technologies to Address Global and Local Challenges

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2020

Teaching Fellow and Course Designer.

Professor: Chris Dede

Course Description: 

The world presents a new landscape shaped by advanced technologies that place demands on education at every level to prepare students with knowledge and skills that have not been prioritized for prior generations. Educators in every country and community must prepare young people and adults to take part in the knowledge-based, innovation-centered global economy, fostering their skills for unceasing reinvention to take on many roles in the workplace and to succeed in...

Read more about Effectively Implementing Learning Technologies to Address Global and Local Challenges

Research Experience in Prevention Science and Practice

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2020

Teaching Fellow

Professor: Nancy Hill

Course Description: This course is designed for graduate students seeking to gain hands-on research training resulting and guided research experience. It is structured as a yearlong "research apprenticeship," providing opportunities for students to gain sustained, hands on research experience, while learning the theory and methods for conducting research that informs prevention/intervention programs, policy, and practice. Students are placed as research assistants in a faculty member's active research lab, where they will...

Read more about Research Experience in Prevention Science and Practice

Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Methods for Applied Educational Research

Semester: 

Spring

Offered: 

2020

Teaching Fellow

Professor: Andrew Ho

Course Description: This course is designed for those who want to extend their data analytic skills beyond a basic knowledge of multiple regression analysis and who want to communicate their findings clearly to audiences of researchers, practitioners, and policymakers. S-052 contributes directly to the diverse data analytic toolkit that the well-equipped empirical researcher must possess in order to perform sensible analyses of complex educational, psychological, and social data. The course begins with general linear models and...

Read more about Intermediate and Advanced Statistical Methods for Applied Educational Research

Transforming Education Through Emerging Technologies

Semester: 

Fall

Offered: 

2019

Teaching Fellow

Professor: Chris Dede

Course Description: EDU T-561 describes how emerging digital tools and media can aid with crucial problems facing our global civilization. The world presents a new landscape deeply shaped by advanced technologies – communications, biotechnology, and computing – that place demands on schooling to prepare today’s students with knowledge and skills not necessary for prior generations.

Every nation is now part of a worldwide knowledge-based, innovation-centered economy; our children are entering a future of multiple...

Read more about Transforming Education Through Emerging Technologies