Learning Environments and Learning Networks
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Course code
IFI7052.DT
old course code
IFI7052
Course title in Estonian
Õpikeskkonnad ja õpivõrgustikud
Course title in English
Learning Environments and Learning Networks
ECTS credits
3.0
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lecturer of 2023/2024 Spring semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
lecturer of 2024/2025 Autumn semester
Not opened for teaching. Click the study programme link below to see the nominal division schedule.
Course aims
The objective of this course is to introduce different possibilities as well as to provide necessary theoretical knowledge and practical skills for planning, designing, implementing and managing various learning environments and networks.
Brief description of the course
The role of learning environments and networks. Monolithic and centralised learning management systems. Distributed and personal environments. Social media and their affordances for desgining and implementing learning environments and networks. E-portfolio implementations. Technology and specification of learning environments. RSS and information flow. Folksonomy and social bookmarking. Widgets. Identity managemet and open ID. Roles in different environments. Trends and future development of learning environments and networks.
This course introduces different learning environments and networks, their planning, implementation and management. Special attention will be paid to various social media applications and their affordances for individual and group work. Contact days offer both theoretical knowledge and practical skills for designing learning environments and networks.
Learning outcomes in the course
Upon completing the course the student:
- has knowledge about the roles of learning environments and networks in a learning process;
- is able to bring on differences, advantages and challenges of open distributed learning environments and closed, centralised learning management systems;
- is able to analyse affordances of different social media applications according to own (others) learning activities and combine as well as implement them effectively;
- is able to effectively organise, design and support one own’s and others‘ learning environments;
- understands the changes of learner’s and teacher’s role in different environments;
- understands one own’s role for designing and implementing personal and group learning environments;
- has knowledge about trends and development of learning environments and networks.
Teacher
teadur Terje Väljataga, teadur Hans Põldoja
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