Overview of Course Options

Course Requirements for Certificate and Master's Degree Options

EDIT 760 - Online Teachers and Learners (1 credit hour): Examines the attributes of teachers and K-12 learners with emphasis on attitudes, behaviors, and adaptations required by online teachers and learners. Corequisite: EDIT 761

EDIT 761 - Models for K-12 Online Learning (2 credit hours) – Identifies, explores, and evaluates a range of educational models for K-12 online learning.  Corequisite: EDIT 760

EDIT 762 - Quality K-12 Online Learning (1 credit hour) – Examines and evaluates quality indicators for the design of online learning pointing to the six major areas for consideration : instructor-learner, learner-learner, learner-content, learner-interface, learner-instructional strategies, and social presence.  Prerequisite: EDIT 761 and Co-requisite: EDIT 763

EDIT 763 - Tools for K-12 Online Learning (2 credit hours): Examines tools that structure and support online learning with particular emphasis on the unique affordances of each tool including tools for producing, delivering, and supporting online learning. Prerequisite: EDIT 761 and Corequisite: EDIT 762

EDIT 764 - The ART of Online Communication (3 credit hours):  Examines strategies to assess, respond to, and target online communication and develops expertise in questioning and listening, supporting self-regulation, and clarifying conceptual understanding using a series of case studies and role playing activities. Prerequisite or Corequisite: EDIT 763

EDIT 765 - Facilitating K-12 Online Learning (2 credit hours) – Develops expertise in facilitating and moderating online learning to include synchronous and asynchronous environments, community building strategies, questioning strategies, prompting reflection, and facilitating conceptual understanding. Prerequisite: EDIT 764 and Corequisite: EDIT 766

EDIT 766 - Understanding Online Presence (2 credit hours): Examines impacts of distance on teachers and learners and develops strategies to establish teacher presence, to establish and express self, to promote learner-learner connections, and to compensate for the separation of teacher-learner and learner-learner.  Prerequisite: EDIT 764 and Corequisite: EDIT 765

EDIT 767 - Designing K-12 Online Learning (3 credit hours): Develops frameworks for designing and structuring online learning opportunities and emphasizes course content and learning outcomes, selection of appropriate online models, and organization of online lessons and courses, online learning tools, and assessment and evaluation strategies.  Prerequisite: EDIT 766

Additional Course Requirements for Completion of Master's Degree

EDIT 768 - K12 Online Design (1 credit hour): Focuses on the creation of online learning activities, materials, and resources appropriate for K-12 learners and culminates in comprehensive design documents ready for the production phase. Prerequisite: EDIT 764 Corequisite: EDIT 791

EDIT 769 - K12 Online Design II (1 credit hour): Focuses on the creation of online courses appropriate for K-12 learners and culminates in comprehensive design documents that detail goals, assessments, learning tools, and detailed scripts or documents ready for the production phase. Prerequisite: EDIT 767 and Corequisite: EDIT 792

EDIT 791 - Project Development Practicum I (6 credit hours): Designed for students in the Division of Learning Technologies programs to facilitate the application of design and production processes to the solution of learning challenges with particular emphasis on the design and development phase of the design process.  Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor; Corequisite: EDIT 768

EDIT 792 - Project Development Practicum II (6 credit hours): Designed for students in the Division of Learning Technologies programs to facilitate the application of design and production processes to the solution of learning challenges with particular emphasis on the implementation and evaluation phase of the design process.  Prerequisite: Permission of Instructor; Corequisite: EDIT 769