Online Educational Technology amount candidates admission the knowledge, abilities and dispositions to abutment apprentice acquirements through the use of technology and to accommodate able development and abstruse abetment to agents and added academy personnel. Courses administer anon to the educational technology challenges faced by schools and educational technology specialists to aerate capability and advance apprentice performance.
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The Adept of Apprenticeship in Educational Technology affairs is advised for those gluttonous to serve as a technology facilitator. This affairs is not state-approved arch to an endorsement.
Summery and Outcomes
Program Summary
The Adept of Apprenticeship (M.Ed.) in Educational Technology affairs prepares candidates to serve as technology leaders. Specifically, candidates will admission the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to abutment acquirements through the use of technology, and to accommodate able development and abstruse abetment to educators. Courses administer to the classroom and added educational environments. This affairs is not advised to accommodated licensure or endorsement requirements.
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Program Outcomes
The Adept of Apprenticeship in Educational Technology amount affairs was advised to adjust with the technology facilitator standards set alternating by the International Association of Technology in Apprenticeship (ISTE). These outcomes cover the adeptness to:
Practice the affiliation of technology in educational environments to facilitate adventures that abode the assorted needs of all learners.
Choose adventures and assessments that administer technology to appoint learners through the accomplishing of research-based advisory strategies.
Design, develop, and apparatus technology-rich programs that archetypal best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment.
Analyze assay abstracts and use the after-effects to adapt advisory methods and agreeable and to adviser learners.
Model safe, healthy, legal, and ethical uses of agenda advice and technology to advise agenda citizenship and all-around awareness.
Participate in advancing able learning, research, and administration in the profession.
Course Details
CI5393 Teacher Leadership
This advance explores the analytical roles agents play in controlling through the angle of assorted stakeholders. Learners appoint in administration interactions to advance analytic abilities and the adeptness to become change agents for connected academy improvement.
ED5153 Assay Methods
This advance enables acceptance to become abreast consumers of educational assay and to advance abilities that adapt them to backpack out activity assay in their schools and classrooms. An accent is placed on accouterment acceptance with adeptness that they can administer in free whether accurate assay allegation are accordant to their administration and advisory practices and to assay amid accurate and non-trustworthy research. Throughout the course, acceptance assay the elements that scientifically-based assay and activity assay share. Accent is placed on how assay can become a basic and accordant apparatus for agents and academy leaders.
ED5013 Appraisement Strategies for Improving Abecedarian Outcomes
This advance develops competencies in utilizing determinative and accumulative appraisement practices and abstracts to acquaint and adviser class development and instruction. Classroom and school-based appraisement accoutrement accommodate agents with the adeptness and abilities adapted to accommodated the needs of assorted learners. Embracing appraisement is the aboriginal footfall against "data-based" accommodation authoritative in education.
ED5123 Assorted Learners
This advance reviews abstracts accompanying to the capability of educational initiatives emphasizing evidence-based advisory architecture models acclimated to appraise and acquaint acceptance with assorted acquirements needs. Adapted absorption is accustomed to admittance of frequently underrepresented abecedarian populations, i.e.: adapted education, LEP, economically disadvantaged, and indigenous minorities.
ET5013 Responsible Technological Change
Learners assay archetype shifts, accepted trends and issues in accepted and educational technology, and adapt how they accept afflicted society, schools, teachers, and students. From the angle of advancing acceptance to be analytical consumers of advice and producers of adeptness in and out of the classroom, learners assemble a actual timeline and assay depicting shifts, trends, and issues in their own school/district Successful measures to administer the change action in educational ameliorate are articular and activated to an appraisement of the timeline and discovery. Ethical and acknowledged practices, including those accompanying to bookish freedom, privacy, and adaptive and advantageous casework are explored and activated to the appraisal of academy technology action and action manuals and the development of a technology mission statement.
ET5023 Advice Admission and Evaluation
In this course, learners investigate and use advice admission and retrieval accoutrement to abutment classroom and able research. Learners will aswell conduct an assay of the advice admission and retrieval accoutrement in their own schools, assay areas of need, and accomplish recommendations for advance based on costs and benefits. Attempt of administering able searches and evaluating the quality, relevancy, and accessibility of advice and advice admission accoutrement are explored and practiced. Additionally, learners will assay acknowledged and ethical issues accompanying to advice access. Finally, learners will apprentice how to use the avant-garde appearance of a multimedia presentation apparatus to adapt apprenticeship that shares these issues, principles, and appraisal abilities with both acceptance and staff.
ET5033 Technology for Acquirements and Assessment
In this course, learners use and appraise accepted and arising technologies to advance acquirements and assessment. Learners are alien to and again use a array of multimedia accoutrement to advance apprentice acquirements projects that action opportunities for the collection, tracking, and assay of apprentice achievement. Such accoutrement may cover Webquests, wikis, blogs, cyberbanking portfolios, and online altercation forums. Learners again appraise the adeptness of the technologies to abutment accommodating and student-centered acquirements environments, multidisciplinary teaching, problem-based learning, and the needs of a assorted abecedarian population. Finally, learners adapt a standards-based assemblage plan to acquaint one or added of the technologies to an articular apprentice admirers and an accompanying appraisement tool.
ET5043 Technology Class and Planning
Using principles, theories, and models of class design, learners body a school- wide, standards-based technology class that supports and enhances absolute accountable and agreeable curriculum. Appliance the after-effects of a accepted practices analysis, learners assemble a assessable class plan that promotes the affiliation and appliance of technology abilities into the acquirements process, and that supports the needs for a assorted apprentice population. Additionally, learners adapt an accomplishing timeline and presentation to acquaint the curriculum. Both the timeline and presentation assay the admiring role of the educational technology baton in allowance acceptance to accomplish the technology standards.
ET5053 Architecture of Acquirements Environments
Learners administer theories of acquirements attitude and models and attempt of advisory architecture to the architecture of apprenticeship and development of acquirements environments. Specifically, learners will assay acquirements environments, learners, and acquirements tasks; assay and call acquirements goals, objectives, and assessments; actuate advisory strategies and adapted acquirements and advisory materials; and architecture determinative and accumulative evaluations. These tasks will be completed in the action of developing, simultaneously, a curricular assemblage for classroom and cyberbanking ambit acquirements environments. Learners will aswell assay accepted technology trends and issues as they administer to the advisory architecture process.
ET5063 Technology for Agents Development
Applying attempt of advisory architecture and developed learning, acceptance advance a technology class that supports the able advance of academy adroitness and staff. Aloft the identification of technologies a lot of frequently acclimated in schools, learners will conduct a school-wide assay of personal, professional, administrative, and advisory technology use. Additionally, learners assay and appraise technologies to improve/facilitate productivity, communication, and instruction. Assay and appraisal after-effects will be acclimated to adapt a class plan and accomplishing timeline that introduces, develops, and reinforces technology abilities and concepts. The role of the educational technology baton in this action will be evident. Learners will aswell adapt able development affairs for educational technology leaders to bottle their adeptness to finer account students, faculty, and staff.
ET5073 Educational Technology Planning
This advance prepares learners to administer research, evaluation, and abstruse autograph abilities to the development of a school-wide educational technology angle and presentation to advance and advance services. Learners aswell use these abilities to seek another sources and adapt an appliance for educational technology funding. To advance the proposal, learners conduct a cardinal assay to assay absolute strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. Factors to be adjourned in the assay and addressed in the angle cover hardware, software, budget, another allotment sources, staffing, licenses, amplitude utilization, and security. Aloft angle completion, learners adapt a presentation, appliance a array of media presentation tools, to be delivered to the academy lath and/or community.
ET5083 Educational Technology Systems Management
Learners will become accomplished in researching and evaluating networks, hardware, and software frequently acclimated in educational settings. Learners will investigate and allotment issues accompanying to planning, purchasing, amalgam new systems, and acknowledging absolute systems. Operating systems aliment and trouble-shooting strategies will be explored in the ambience of developing an advisory chiral and training for a technology administration team. Aegis apropos accompanying to character aegis and clarification will aswell be explored.
ET5091 Capstone Experience for Educational Technology (1 division credit)
The Capstone Experience is advised for candidates to authenticate and certificate the appulse of their adeptness and competencies acquired throughout and as a aftereffect of this Educational Technology program. It does this by accepting candidates accommodate specific artifacts produced forth with or as a aftereffect of their courses‘ appliance assignments. Candidates adjust their plan with the National Educational Technology Standards (NETS) for Educational Technology Facilitators as accustomed by the International Association for Technology in Apprenticeship (ISTE) in accord with the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher Apprenticeship (NCATE). Opportunities to use technology in synthesizing and absorption aloft their acquirements and approaching are aswell provided, culminating in students‘ architecture of their own online cyberbanking portfolio to accommodate a awful alone framework for their planning and able affidavit above graduation.

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