About this course: This course introduces innovative approaches to learning and teaching, with a focus on the use of e-learning and social web technologies.
Created by: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Taught by: Dr William Cope, Professor
Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, College of Education
Taught by: Dr Mary Kalantzis, Dean
College of Education
| Language | English |
| How To Pass | Pass all graded assignments to complete the course. |
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WEEK 1
Module 1: Course Orientation + Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia
This module introduces the key ideas of the course: communication, representation (or making meanings for oneself as an aid to thinking), and the design of meaning. Today, our tools for communication and representation have been widely expanded by digital tool...
4 videos, 7 readings, 1 practice quiz
Graded: Essential Peer Reviewed Update #1
WEEK 2
Module 2: Making Meaning by Reading + Making Meaning by Writing + Making Visual Meaning
This module begins with an overview of the conventional focus of literacy pedagogy – reading and writing. In its second half, the module applies a parallel set of tools to analysis of visual meanings.
16 videos, 3 readings
Graded: Essential Peer Reviewed Update #3
WEEK 3
Module 3: Making Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings + Making Audio and Oral Meanings + Literacies to Think and to Learn
In this third module of the course, we examine spatial, tactile, gestural, audio, and oral meanings – all today part of a wider repertoire of teaching and learning that we call "literacies" in the plural, or "multiliteracies." In the final section of the modul...
13 videos, 3 readings
Graded: Essential Peer Reviewed Update #6
WEEK 4
Module 4: Literacies and Learner Differences + Literacies Standards and Assessment
The final module of the course examines the question of learner differences – including literacies learning at different age levels and second language learning. We also explore strategies for differentiated instruction. Finally, we investigate the range of as...
13 videos, 2 readings
Graded: Essential Peer Reviewed Update #8
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