Can new digital technologies, such as the web, open doors for learners, provide essential learning resources and engage all students in meaningful learning activities? What issues do they raise about quality, privacy, and equity of use? This course is designed for all those concerned with such questions including those interested in media/technology coordination, library and museum services, teaching, teacher education, curriculum and software development, educational research, and computer/information sciences. Students will address questions such as:

• How do we analyze and employ theories of teaching and learning to inform the use of new learning technologies? In particular,
  
  
  • What are the assumptions underlying different approaches?
  • What tools best suit the needs of learners with different backgrounds, purposes, and contexts for learning?
  • How do new technologies challenge traditional curricula?
  
  
• How should we apply our understanding of technologies and learning in specific learning contexts?
  
  
  • How can we use various information and communication technologies to enhance learning?
  • How do we create new media for inquiry, construction, communication, and expression?
  • How should we evaluate learning technologies?
  
  
• How can we critique the conceptual, pedagogical, social, ethical, and political dimensions of new modes of learning in a changing society?