On-Line Learning and Communication Technologies
Instructor: Carolyn Penstein Rose
Course Number: 05-899
Time: MW 10-30-11:50
Units: 12
Course Description
Collaborative technologies featured in the current day social web offer
a snapshop vision of the next generation of learning opportunities.
Environments such as Second Life, the Knowledge Forum, Wikipedia, and the
Virtual Math Teams environment offer a wide range of formal and informal
learning opportunities to individuals and groups worldwide. These social web
technologies hold the potential to greatly increase opportunities for
fostering advancement of underserved populations and leveraging the large
amount of out-of-school time that school age kids have for their
intellectual and social development. The field of Computer Supported
Collaborative Learning has as one of its foundational goals to work
towards understanding the pedagogical and technological features that make
on-line education in general, and collaborative learning in particular,
effective. The purpose of this class is to expose students to the
foundational theoretical, technological, and methodological issues
underlying previous work in on-line learning, to introduce
students to the wide range of current on-line environments for formal
and informal interaction and learning on-line, and to explore current
research in improving the quality of experiences these environments have
to offer.
The course is oriented around a hands-on project of the student's own
choosing and design that will offer the opportunity to gain experience with
available tool kits and work towards making their own contribution to
what the modern day web has to offer for on-line learning.
If you have any questions, don't hesitate to Send me
email!
Carolyn Penstein Rose (cprose@cs.cmu.edu)/ Carnegie Mellon
University