Concurrent Sessions

Designing an Educational Technology Course that Meets Multi-levels of Learning

Tue 9:10 – 9:55AM — Governors Ballroom 6
Laurie Ruberg, Center for Educational Technologies, Wheeling Jesuit University

Preparing pre-service teachers for classroom teaching requires giving each student confidence in their ability to integrate and teach with electronic media and assessments. This presentation describes how the learner and the learning environment are considered in the design and implementation of an online educational technology course. The presentation discusses how tasks are designed to alternate and complement each other. Each assignment addresses at least one of the following aspects of learning: intellectual skills, cognitive strategies, communication processes, performance abilities, and attitudinal frameworks.

The Five Learned Capabilities design model developed by Gagne and Briggs (1974) was used as a guide for planning the course activity sequence. Social constructivist theory (Debowski, Wood, & Bandura, 2001) provided guidelines regarding how to gauge students’ perceptions of their capabilities with regard to specific computer tasks, skills, and knowledge. The presentation will include guidelines for establishing an online culture that support multi-dimensional learning. The discussion will propose recommendations for continued research related to learning with computer-based environments and the influence of computer self-efficacy.


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