Key Information
About the content
Designing technologies that facilitate learning. Beyond usability, technology for learning has to engage, trigger prior knowledge, prompt for reflection, maintain a balance between too much cognitive load and too little challenge, and scaffold the development of skills.
Syllabus
- Week 1: How People Learn
- How memory works and how learning works
- Differences between experts and novices.
- Scaffolding learning.
- Week 2: Designing for Learning
- Know thy students
- Identifying learning objectives
- Creating learning activities
- Week 3: Examples
- Science education
- Computer science education
- Mathematics education
- Week 4: Evaluation
- How do you know if you got there? Testing your design decisions.
- Factors to measure: retention, completion, learning, attitudes.
- What makes a good evaluation? Validation and reliability
Instructors
- Mark Guzdial - School of Interactive Computing
Content Designer
Platform
Coursera is a digital company offering massive open online course founded by computer teachers Andrew Ng and Daphne Koller Stanford University, located in Mountain View, California.
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