ECI 503

Media, Technology, and Open Learning

Section: 601

Course Description

This course covers how different forms of media are used, produced, and disseminated for instruction as well as how technologies can help and hinder the learning process. The course explores how media, text, and technology intersect and benefit students who anticipate authoring or sharing instructional media and texts as well as how materials are authored and managed in an instructional context. Course activities focus on issues related to the open learning movement (e.g., open courseware, open software, open educational resources) and the ways in which technology is used to make instructional media and texts available to a wide audience. The course includes a focus on technologies used to create and share media/texts and concerns related to copyright, authorship, and sharing.