This course offers an introduction to the field of Education and Technology, with an emphasis on efforts to re-shape schooling and professional education through the use of computers. Through readings, project work, and a combination of on-line and in-class discussions, we will survey several major traditions of research and development in this field, and attempt to make sense of the whole.

One area of emphasis for the course will be understanding the arguments and assumptions that each tradition of work in Educational Technology makes about how learning happens, what constitutes a valuable educational outcome, and how we would know if it was achieved. Another will be the question of how and why technology-based innovations for learning spread (or don’t).