Educating Learning Technology Designers: Guiding and Inspiring Future Creators of Innovative Educational Tools

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Excerpted from the chapter entitled "The Case for Preparing the Next Generation of Learning Technology Developers" by Michael Chorost & Chris DiGiano (SRI International), and Shelley Goldman (Stanford University)

"This book offers theoretical insights and practical tools for the teachers of courses in learning technology design. The reason for creating an entire book is that teaching students how to build interactive learning technologies is a new field and requires an innovative articulation of principles, practices, and outcomes. It cannot simply be cobbled together from the pedagogies of computer science, design, and education. The pedagogy of learning technology design is an emerging field, drawing from other disciplines yet distinctively different from them.

It is distinctly different because the designers of interactive learning tools face a different challenge from people who design other kinds of technologies. Other kinds of developers have to understand how people work (the starting point for productivity software) and how people play (the starting point for games.) But the designers of interactive learning tools have to understand how people learn, and how to facilitate learning in interactive environments. This falls outside the scope of traditional computer science, design, and education courses."

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Chapter Listing

• The Case for Preparing the Next Generation of Learning Technology Developers by Mike Chorost, Chris DiGiano & Shelley Goldman
• Design Knowledge: How and Why We Can Teach It by Chris Hoadley & Charlie Cox
• Collaborating to Learn, Learning to Collaborate: Finding the Balance in a Cross-disciplinary Design Course by Emma Mercier, Shelley Goldman & Angela Booker
• The Value of Authentic Contexts and Relationships in Learning Technology Design Courses by Shelley Goldman, Angela Booker & Emma Mercier
• Theory vs. Reality in How Learning Technology Design is Taught in Higher Ed by Janet Kolodner, Amy Bruckman & Mark Guzdial
• Playing a Game: The Ecology of Designing, Building and Testing Games as Educational Activities by Alex Repenning & Clayton Lewis
• Distributed Cognition as a Model for Course Structure by Frank Lee
• The Whys and How-tos of Pedagogical Feedback by Suzanne Alejandre
• Playground Games and the Dissemination of Control in Computing and Learning by Deborah Tatar & Sirong Lin
• Cross-disciplinary Challenges in the Design Classroom: Issues and Tradeoffs from a Graduate Learning Technology Design Course by Chris Quintana
• Learning Design, Instructional Technology, and the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning by Jennifer Meta Robinson, Thomas Duffy, and TBD (Indiana University)
• Roundtable Discussion on the Importance of Multidisciplinarity in Learning Technology Design Classes by Shelley Goldman et al.
• Capturing Student Projects for Sharing, Grading and External Review by Chris DiGiano & Mike Chorost
• Running Design Studios for Educational Technologists by Charlie Cox & Chris Hoadley
• To The Student by Mike Chorost & Chris DiGiano
• Sample Student Projects by Gucci Estrella & Chris DiGiano

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