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Tech Tools for Playful Learning

This course explores the design and use of new technologies for learning and engages students in current debates around educational technologies, computational thinking, coding and robotics. Students will learn how to develop, implement, and evaluate technology-rich curriculum and will design their own computational meaningful projects. They will visit K-2 classrooms to implement technology-rich curricula, will learn how to use video to document their experiences and will become researchers to assess the thinking and learning fostered by the different tools.

Motivation, Emotion, and Self-Regulated Learning

Self-regulated learning is a process that involves setting learning and academic goals, monitoring your progress toward these goals, and making adjustments when you realize that you are not on track to be successful. The course will primarily focus on the ways that motivation and emotion contribute to this process. For example, students will examine the motivations that lead individuals to adopt particular achievement goals (e.g., the goal of getting a good grade), the ways in which these goals impact learners behaviors, and the impact of these behaviors on important outcomes (e.g., grades and well-being).

Designing Learning Environments in a Social and Digital World

In today's society, what counts as knowledge and expertise has changed considering the global shifts in interconnectivity, social interactions, and technology. Previous models of learning focused on knowledge as a collection of facts within curriculum and learning environments helping individuals obtain those facts. However, today technology can enable all individuals to quickly obtain facts. Instead, expertise requires deep knowledge in which ideas are applied across multiple contexts in particular contexts with people and tools. These shifts in knowledge as well as technological advances have significant implications for how we design curriculum and other learning environments. In this course, we will examine different learning environments as well as various aspects within those environments. For example, we will examine curriculum to evaluate the scaffolds to support student learning, analyze digital learning environments for professional development to support teacher learning and critique video of classroom discourse to examine student interactions and community development. In this course, we will consider the environment both as conceptualized by its designers (the design) and as it is experienced by participants as learning interactions unfold in particular settings (the enactment) to evaluate the effectiveness of those learning environments.

Practicing Design Thinking for Social Change

In this course, students will practice methods connected to the theories and approaches introduced in Theories of Design Thinking for Social Change. Design thinking refers to a non-linear, iterative process that organizations use to understand users, challenge assumptions, redefine complex problems, and create innovative solutions to prototype and test. Design thinking processes are becoming increasingly present in organizations striving to increase equity or push for social change and when done well are notable for their inclusion of users throughout the design process. Through a combination of teaching methods, including didactic classroom lectures, structured role-playing, and other classroom exercises, students will become well-versed in how design thinking methods are applicable to a wide variety of work environments (e.g., those focused on education, healthcare, research, legislation, community organizing, and others in both clinical and macro roles). Major topics covered include prototyping, interviewing, usability testing, measuring impact, and planning for sustainability as well as scalability.

Physical Computing - Interactive Art, Robotics, and Tech for Good*

Low-cost microcontrollers, sensors, and computing devices like the Raspberry Pi make it possible to create technical projects that humans can physically interact with. This course assumes no prior programming experience but will progress quickly through block-based MakeCode programming, then CircuitPython programming so that all students have coding knowledge necessary to create hardware projects. Students will purchase an amount of hardware and tools similar to the cost of books in a standard course, and we'll use these parts to build a series of projects that control lights, read sensors, produce sound, respond to touch and app control, capture camera images, and more. We'll also build a wheel-based robot, and students will have an opportunity to create and present several original projects and share their work with classmates. This course was formerly numbered: ISYS2170

Intro to Programming using Swift for iOS App Development*

In this fast-paced course, students will learn the Swift programming language and iOS app development skills. Using a "flipped-classroom" approach, the students take lectures in a series of online videos embedded in a web-based course/reference/quiz book, following along with videos as they learn programming concepts and build apps. Although this is a flipped class, expect a challenging course. Class is mandatory (this is NOT an online course) and class time will be used for additional exercises, concept review, and student questions. Students are required to bring a fully-charged Mac laptop to each class with the latest version of Apple's free Xcode software installed (make sure you have access to a Mac that meets these requirements before enrolling). The course assumes no programming background, but students with some experience will likely have an easier time. Students should be prepared to spend significant time each week on self-directed learning and regular programming projects. This course was formerly numbered: ISYS2160

Teaching, Curriculum, and Learning Environments: Global Perspectives

What kinds of education are most needed for a world characterized by spiraling political polarization, increasing economic interdependence, rapid climate change, and a global pandemic like COVID-19? This online course will introduce students to contemporary debates about how educators should teach, what students should learn, and how schools should interact with society. The course is global in scope and will require in-depth study of country cases and failed and successful models of change. International students and U.S. students curious about other countries' approaches to education are strongly encouraged to enroll.

Models and Theories of Instructional Design

Now well into the twenty-first century, schools struggle with the challenge of offering a high quality education for all learners regardless of race, family status, national origin, language, or ability. Increasingly, curriculum is accessed digitally and student work is generated and exhibited using technology tools. The once familiar artifacts of classrooms are rapidly giving way to radically new forms of teaching and learning. Within this context of change, this course reviews the evolution of theories of learning and instruction and then critically examines a range of contemporary models and theoretical frameworks. Learning activities in the course will allow participants to develop their own personalized framework for planning and implementing instruction.听

Social Contexts of Education

Examines the role of situational, school, community, peer, and family factors on the education of children. Participants in the course will strive to understand the effects of their own social context on their education, to develop strategies to help students understand their context, and to understand and contribute to what schools can do to improve teaching and learning and school culture for all students regardless of internal and external variables.

Curriculum Theories & Practice

Asks teachers to analyze the philosophical underpinnings of educational practices. Also asks teachers to examine their own philosophies of education and to construct meaning and practice from the interplay between their beliefs and alternative theories. Designed for individuals advanced in their professional development.

Ethics and Equity in Education

The course explores how schools are used as a vehicle of the state to de-culturalize various communities of people throughout the country's history. Students will explore how schools can more appropriately promote respect for valuing diversity as a generative source of the country's vitality and its relationship to the global village. The role of educators is not only to act ethically in the many individual situations of their daily professional lives, but more importantly to see that the institutional structures and processes of the school system are themselves reflections of a system of justice and care.

Leadership for Social Justice

This course introduces students to the theory and practice of leadership for social justice at the school and district level. Definitions, approaches, and controversies in this emerging field will be examined. Readings, films, class discussions, and case studies related to the topics of race, ethnicity, culture, language, gender, social class, religion, sexual orientation, and disability will focus on how these issues affect educators, students and their families in today's K-12 schools. In particular, students will learn about leadership which is culturally and linguistically responsive; strengthens parent-community-school relationships; and formulates diversity policies to promote educational equity for students from diverse groups.

Experiential Knowledge and Ethnography as Method

This course offers an introduction to ethnographic methods, set within a broader consideration of what it means to know and learn from an experience. Drawing on historical and contemporary examples of ethnographic research, we will consider the central questions that have shaped ethnography as a method, including those related to the ethics, positionality, and subjectivity of the ethnographer. We will study tools such as participant observation, interviewing, fieldnotes, and digital ethnography, while practicing these skills in a mini-ethnographic project conducted during the semester. Finally, we will grapple with the challenge of analyzing the often complex and variegated data produced through ethnographic research, learning how to capture our observations and analyses in writing.

Intermediate Statistics

Topics and computer exercises address tests of means, partial and part correlations, multiple regression, analysis of variance with planned and post hoc comparisons, analysis of covariance, repeated measures analysis, elements of experimental design, and power analysis.

Data Visualization and Storytelling

This course will introduce the principles for guiding the development of compelling stories based on data and how to use visualizations to assist in articulating key findings. Visualization and storytelling are important tasks in the lifecycle of a data science project and essential skills to communicate effectively. Data visualization allows data scientists to take complex data and present it in a way that is easy to understand, while storytelling allows them to add context to their findings and explain their importance. Students will learn various data visualization techniques for reporting purposes and the widely used software tools for implementing these visualizations. Students will also learn how to create interactive reports based on dashboards deployed on cloud servers to maximize client engagement.

Evaluation Practice & Methods

This course addresses the theoretical and philosophical foundations of program evaluation, with emphasis on the roles of social and political theory, methodology, epistemology, and philosophy of science in various models of evaluation in education. Each evaluation model will be examined in terms of the purpose, knowledge construction, the role of the evaluator, relationship to objectives, relationship to policy and decision-making, criteria, and design. The course also includes a focus on issues of value-neutrality and value judgment.

Project Management

This course introduces students to the basic tenets and components involved in project management. The primary objective is to provide frameworks that make it possible to track and measure project performance, overcome challenges, and adapt to changes in a variety of professional environments. Specific topics covered in the course include project scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk and stakeholder management and a variety of other operational issues that emerge during project planning initiation, monitoring, and execution.

Leading High Performance Teams

High performing teams do not just happen, no matter how talented the individual members may be! Successful teams need the support of a leader to help them establish a shared purpose, who can set clear performance goals, foster collaboration, and sustain individual and group commitment.This course will cover select leadership and management theories to establish an understanding of the strategic aims and tactical goals for using teams in organizations. Students will learn to identify the steps necessary to shift the mindset (their own or others) from that of individual contributor to a member of a high-performing team. They will learn to recognize the complexities leaders face balancing strategies needed to drive collaboration on a team, while also recognizing the contributions of individuals to keep them motivated and engaged. Specific leadership styles will be reviewed and students will be able to evaluate how (or if) certain approaches are more effective in leading teams to high performance outcomes. Through in-class activities, projects and case studies, students will analyze real-world situations and develop suggested approaches to solutions using their personal experience in team and/or leadership experience and the application of academic theories covered in the course.

Financial Management

This course deals primarily with a firm's investment and financing decisions. Topics treated intensively include valuation and risk, capital budgeting, financial leverage, capital structure and working capital management. Also discussed are financial statistical analysis and tools of planning and control. Some attention is given to financial institutions and their role in supplying funds to businesses and non-profit organizations.

Introduction to Strategic Management

The course is designed to provide you with a general understanding of how firms formulate and implement strategies to create competitive advantage. Relying exclusively on the case method, it will expose you to some basic strategy concepts, which will lay the foundation for the strategic management core course that you will take later on. The cases chosen for this course will place you in diversity of managerial situations鈥攍arge multinational firms and small startups, manufacturing and service industries, growing and mature organizations, U.S. and non-U.S. settings. Discussion of these cases will enable you to learn different analytic techniques, and illustrate (1) the essence of strategy, (2) how to understand the external competitive environment, (3) ways to consider beyond the current business landscape, and (4) the role of top management in strategy implementation.

Managing People and Organizations

This course focuses on the analysis and diagnosis of organizational problems. It attempts to enable students to apply these concepts to real organizational and managerial problems. It also provides opportunities for participation in ongoing work teams while learning about team effectiveness. Finally, students can examine their own behavior and beliefs about organizations to compare, contrast, and integrate them with the theories and observations of others.

Nonprofit Management

This course provides an opportunity to explore essential management issues in a nonprofit context alongside topics that are somewhat unique to the nonprofit sector, including distinctive funding methods, governance, and staffing structures. Topical areas include Social Entrepreneurship, Venture Philanthropy, Leadership, Strategic Planning, Performance Measurement, Cause Marketing, and Microfinance. In addition to case and article discussion, the course features local, national, and international nonprofit leaders as guest speakers. The course aims to provide future nonprofit managers, volunteers, board members, donors, or supporters with a more nuanced understanding of critical issues and important trends in the nonprofit sector.

Marketing

This course focuses on the managerial skills, tools, and concepts required to produce a mutually satisfying exchange between consumers and providers of goods, services, and ideas. The material is presented in a three-part sequence. Part one deals with understanding the marketplace. Part two deals with the individual parts of the marketing program such as pricing, promotion, product decisions, and distribution. Part three of the course deals with overall strategy formulation and control of the marketing function. Students in this course will come to understand the critical links between marketing and the other functional areas of management.

Digital Innovation and Transformation

In the last two decades, innovative digital products, processes, and business models have become increasingly prevalent. These digital innovations are transforming how we live and work, how companies compete, and the structure of entire industries. As a result, it is essential for aspiring managers to have a strong grounding in digital innovation in order to effectively work in, manage, lead, and transform organizations that are increasingly dependent on innovative digital technologies. Through a combination of seminar-style discussions, brief lectures, case studies, in-class exercises, and guest speakers, students will learn about: (1) fundamental innovation concepts; (2) how digital technologies and platforms are different from non-digital technologies, and how these differences shape their evolution and impact; (3) how to implement effective organizational processes for digital innovation discovery, development, and diffusion; (4) how to evaluate the transformational impacts of digital innovation on businesses, individuals, and society; (5) how to nurture the innovative capabilities of individuals and the firm.