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Technology For The Adult Learner –
aet531
(3 credits)
This course explores a variety of ways in which technology can support and facilitate instruction for adult learners, including the use of web resources and multimedia.It also addresses the facilitator’s role in researching, selecting, integrating, and managing technology in an adult learning and training environment. The course focuses on technologies, software applications, and the evaluation of technology. Additionally, the course analyzes the effects of 21st century technology tools on intellectual property and other legal matters.
This graduate-level course is 6
weeks.
To enroll, speak with an Enrollment Advisor.
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Transformation of Online Learning
- Analyze how the delivery of adult education has changed over the past 50 years.
- Analyze the effect of modern technologies on adult education.
- Identify technology skills required by instructors.
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Facilitating Online Instruction
- Compare technology-based learning tools that enhance student learning.
- Analyze the importance of collaboration for student learning.
- Identify assessment strategies for the online environment.
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Synchronous Learning
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of synchronous learning.
- Explain how technology tools can enhance synchronous learning.
- Identify strategies for facilitating synchronous online learning.
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Synchronous Versus Asynchronous Learning
- Identify the advantages and disadvantages of asynchronous learning.
- Identify strategies for facilitating asynchronous online learning.
- Compare synchronous learning to asynchronous learning.
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Administration of Technologies
- Identify challenges associated with managing the use of technologies.
- Evaluate an organization’s capacity for integrating technology to aid instruction.
- Analyze the functionality and purpose of various communication tools.
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Legal Matters
- Analyze the effect of modern technology tools on legal and ethical issues.
- Identify the key components of an acceptable use policy.
- The University of Phoenix reserves the right to modify courses.
- While widely available, not all programs are available in all locations or in both online and on-campus formats. Please check with a University Enrollment Advisor.
- Transferability of credit is at the discretion of the receiving institution. It is the student’s responsibility to confirm whether or not credits earned at University of Phoenix will be accepted by another institution of the student’s choice.
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