Graduate ICT Courses

The University of Regina has an agreement with the University of Saskatchewan that enables graduate students to register at either institution for a percentage of their graduate coursework and apply that course credit to their home institution. This agreement is called SUGA (Saskatchewan Universities Graduate Agreement). Faculty involved in teaching graduate ICT course at both institutions got together four years ago to plan a series of ICT courses that would be taught at different times to enable students to participate in a core specialization in ICT at the graduate level. Some of these courses have been granted TEL (Technology Enhanced Learning) funding. The following is a listing of the courses that are offered at either institution, giving dates, type of delivery, and any prerequisites needed.

The following graduate level ICT courses are being offered by the University of Regina. For any one of the following courses an undergraduate Computers in Education course such as ECMP 355 or ECMP 455 (or both) would be very helpful. While the graduate ICT courses are not heavily technology skill-based, there are skill aspects (such as knowing how to conduct an Internet search, familiarity with WebCT) that are taken for granted. In other words, these graduate courses will not teach you how to surf the net, how to use the WebCT Discussions Zone, or how to send an e-mail message. These features, and many others, will be used in the following courses--to access and advance the course content. Please check all the pre-requisite technology skill requirements before registering for one of the following online courses.

We are trying to offer at least one of our Educational Technology graduate classes online EACH semester. Please check the following sites for up to date information on the University of Regina's graduate courses in the Educational Technology area:

Graduate Studies at the University of Regina (General)

http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/graduates/index.shtm

Graduate Studies at the University of Regina (Education)

http://www.uregina.ca/gradstudies/calendar/programs/education.shtmll

Education Graduate Studies Site (a little different from the one posted at grad studies--has some scheduling information)

http://education.uregina.ca/edgrad/

EC &I 830: Seminar on Information Technology: Current Issues for Today's (and Tomorrow's) Classrooms.

This class will serve as a seminar class addressing different current issues. EC & I 830, first offered in the Winter 1998 semester as EC &I 890, addressed at that time the influences of technology on classroom culture. Issues such as societal, administrative, ethical, pedagogical, philosophical, and psychological were addressed. Students read a wide variety of current literature on these issues and discussed the impact of each issue in terms of the critical literature and in terms of their personal experience.

EC &I 830 will be first offered online in the Winter 2005 semester, facilitated by Dr. Elizabeth Cooper. The title will be the same as above. The content will be different. The Winter 2005 EC &I 830 course will address issues of globalization and commercialization of technology in education. It will also address the Digital Divide and what this term means from a variety of perspectives.

The following is Dr. Liz' course description for the EC&I 830 Winter 2005 class.

EC and I 830 is a seminar class. This means that it is a little different from what you may have been used to. A seminar, while structured by the instructor using readings and, in this case, a weblog, is developed from the participation of all those taking part in it. In this class we will have ourselves, instructor and students, and two doctoral students who are extremely knowledgeable in the area of education and computing, Alec Couros and Jo Szostak. We may also have persons joining in who have particular expertise, who come from places or issues we are discussing, or who are just interested. We will all be engaged in a semester long conversation. Each person must participate fully if all are to benefit. Of course some of us are just more talkative than others and that is alright, but we must all be responsible for the richness of the conversation. This means taking part in the discussion boards, the blog and the chatroom (Thursday evenings starting at 7:00 p.m.). It means making thoughtful contributions. Quality is always more important than quantity. I have found this way of teaching and learning to be a joy in the past and I full expect it to be again. Thank you for joining in the conversation.

EC &I 831: Computers in the Classroom: Appropriate Curriculum and Instruction Related to Computer Technology

This class will examine some pedagogically-appropriate ways to use computer technology effectively in the classroom. This class will offer graduate students an in-depth exploration of the use of and integration of computer-related technologies in the classroom. The course will examine trends, issues, and futurist scenarios of instructional uses of computers, and is designed to facilitate the use of computers in a learning/instruction perspective in K-12, Post-Secondary, and workplace learning environments rather than on a hardware/programming perspective.

The basic theory framing this course is one of social constructivism, a theory that addresses the knowledge and experiential base of each individual, builds on that base through interaction with each other and with the topic, and through meaningful instructor mediation.

This course was first offered in the Spring 1999 semester as ED 880 AR--as a combined graduate (ED 880 AR) and undergraduate (ED 490). Since then the Faculty of Education has hired an Instructional Technology Co-ordinator who has adapted the content of this course to create a senior undergraduate elective entitled ECMP 455. Since the first offering at the graduate level in 1999 this course has not been offered again at the graduate level. However, we are planning to design very soon an online version of this class that would be suitable for inclusion in a graduate program.

EC &I 832: The Internet and Curriculum Integration

This course is fully outlined on this website--see the EC & I 832 Block Outline. EC & I 832 began its life as ED 880 AU in the Fall 1999 semester and was taught in the Fall 2003 semester. The basic purpose of the course is to explore and critically evaluate web-based curriculum-related frameworks and to examine learning theory appropriate to the effective use of the Internet in instructional environments. This course will most likely be taught again online in the Fall 2006 semester.

ED 880 AV: Multimedia Technology and the Curriculum: Evaluation, Integration, and Instructional Design

This course, first taught in the Winter 2002 semester face-to-face, was offered online in the Winter 2003 semester, taught by Dr. Stephen Kemp. This was a very exciting class, enjoyed by 21 graduate students (7 who stated it was the best class they had ever taken), and focused on the design and implementation of online courseware. It explored and critiqued instructional design perspectives and enabled groups of students to design and implement modules of the course. The students thus became their own instructioanl designers as they were learning about instructional design. ED 880 AV was offered for the second time online in the Fall 2004 semester. This class will probably be offered again online in the Winter 2006 semester.

ED 880 AW (soon to be named EC & I 834): Critique of Distance Delivery of Educational Programs and Services

This class was first taught face to face in the Winter 2001 semester. It is being developed for online delivery in the Fall 2005 semester. When it was first taught face-to-face ED 880 AW had an instructor, an assistant, and a variety of professionals from around the province who specialised in different forms of distance delivery. The course examined the socio-cultural climate influencing distance education, and critically evaluated the design and delivery of distance education systems. This class explored some of the most common distance education designs in use in the province and involved participants in simulated distance education delivery and reception (e.g., Class Point, and televised delivery). Each student prepared a content module to be delivered online using one form of distance delivery studied in the class. Other students explored and critiqued this module. this class will be taught online for the first time in the Fall 2005 semester.

At the University of Saskatchewan, the following Educational Technology graduate classes are being offered.

EDCMM 802.6 Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Educational Technology (Online option).

This class examines the historical, philosophical and theoretical
foundations of the field of educational technology and focuses on the maturation of theory and research in this area of study, and the impact of educational technology on educational institutions and practice.

EDCMM 803.3 Principles and Practices of Authoring
Interactive Instruction (once-monthly weekend option).

This class presents procedures and principles for planning, producing and evaluating computer-based instruction, and how to develop the necessary print-based support materials required for its implementation.

EDCMM 804.3 Distance Education Theory and Practice (Online
option).

This class examines the historical and theoretical foundations of distance education from a provincial, national and international perspective. Surveys the development, organization and practice of distance education for various educational endeavours. Focuses specifically on distance education in Saskatchewan and compares the Saskatchewan situation with similar situations across Canada.

EDCMM 873.3 Designing Materials for Individualized
instruction (Online option).

This is an applied course in which the principles of instructional design are used to produce self-instructional materials. Students do a major project in which they plan and implement a self-instructional module in a medium of their choice.

EDCMM 876.3 Organization and Administration of Media
Centres (Online option).

This class addresses an examination of the operation of technology programs in elementary and secondary schools and school units. The course considers the facilities, materials, equipment and services required in a new media program and the budgeting, personnel and staff relations required for its operation.

Please check the following site at the University of Saskatchewan for up to date information about their graduate Educational Technology courses.

http://www.usask.ca/education/edcur/edcomm/

The following chart illustrates past, present, and projected future offerings of the Graduate ICT courses in the Faculty of Education at the University of Regina

Dates and Predicted Courses

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Vi Maeers
Professor
Faculty of Education
University of Regina