Technology Innovation byDesign

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

In this course, you will explore the role of technology and innovation in higher education. Taking into account historical and current educational challenges in higher education, you’ll explore the ways that institutions of higher education and student populations have changed over time, impacting the ways we use technology in education today. In addition to creating dynamic definitions of a variety of concepts, we will explore the challenges, opportunities, and effects technology and innovation—as well as theories of disruption and integration—have had on higher education. By the end of the semester, it is my hope that you will be adept at understanding the questions, contexts, and opportunities that technology affords higher education, and the role that innovation plays in the formation of students, the creation of new knowledge, and higher education’s contribution to civic and common good. As part of the studio approach to the course, you will design and propose ways that technology innovation can spur systemic change across the curriculum and beyond it, and investigate and integrate theories and models in balance with a practical understanding of past, current, and future educational technologies. Readings will include works by Christensen, Crow, Davidson, Bowen, and others.