Course: ED 770A, B Learning and Design

Course Description:

This course is part of a series of courses designed to update and deepen the student's understanding of the relationship between theories of learning and the role of technology. This course extends over two terms. Ideas and work in this course support and develop learning in ED 771: Human Computer Interaction. The study focuses on recently predominant cognitive theory and the current vanguard sociocultural historical theory, sometimes referred to as Vygotskian or Russian Psychology.

Books:

How People Learn by The National Research Council Committee on Educational Practice

Situational Learning: Legitimate Peripheral Participation by Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger

Smart Mobs: The Next Social Revolution Transforming Cultures and Communities in the Age of Instant Access by Howerd Rheingold

Convergence Culture by Henry Jenkins

Understanding Practice: Perspectives on Activity and Context (Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Conceptual Perspectives) by Seth Chaiklin

Cultivating Communities of Practice by Etienne Wenger, Richard McDermott, William M. Snyder

Knowledge and Communities by Eric L. Lesser, Michael A Fontaine, Jason A. Slusher