Adult Education
Technology and Adult Education
As with K-12 learners, adult learners need the same multi-modal literacies to be functional in a 21st century world. Learning is active, engaging, and motivating when a variety of technologies are employed such as:
- blogs
- forums
- concept-mapping tools (Bullen & Janes, 2007)
MET Program and Adult Education
For educators working with students at the Adult Education level, a Master's degree in Educational Technology provides the theory, knowledge, and skill required to effectively, and meaningfully, integrate and utilize technology in adult learning programs and institutions. The MET program offers several elective courses that focus on designing, managing, implementing and utilizing learning technologies within online, face-to-face or blended learning environments for post-secondary or adult learners.
The following highlights elective courses offered through the MET program, which hold particular relevance for graduate students working with adult &/or post-secondary learners. A brief description of each course, as provided through UBC's MET (2012) website follows.
The following highlights elective courses offered through the MET program, which hold particular relevance for graduate students working with adult &/or post-secondary learners. A brief description of each course, as provided through UBC's MET (2012) website follows.
For a complete description of each course, please click the title link!
ETEC 530: Constructivist Strategies for E-Learning
In this course, students learn about constructivist teaching strategies for online learning as well as face-to-face learning. Assignments are geared toward students incorporating constructivist principles into the development of learning materials for online use. ETEC 522: VENTURES IN LEARNING TECHNOLOGY
Take ETEC 522 if you want to understand what it takes to launch a successful learning technologies venture. The course provides an online immersion in the global learning technologies marketplace with particular emphasis on emerging markets for learning technologies in public and commercial domains. ETEC 522 is delivered in a case-study modality from a venture and market analysis perspective. |
ETEC 520: Planning and Managing Learning Technologies in Higher Education
In this course, students develop strategies for planning and managing new technologies for teaching and learning at an institutional level of their choice, so that they are funded, organized, and supported in ways that meet the educational, organizational and financial context in which they will be used. Students will be able to use the Internet to access and analyze research and reports on the planning and management of new technologies. ETEC 521: Indigeneity, Technology and Education
This is an important course for understanding issues related to globalization and indigeneity as these ideas relate to educational technology. Practical and theoretical issues, such as cultural property and the dilemma of place-based education, will be discussed in-depth. |
If Adult Education is your area of specialization, please post your opinions and comments to the questions contained within the Adult Education MET Specializations Discussion Forum. |
References:
Bullen, M. & Janes, D. (2007). In M. Bullen & D. Janes (Eds.) Making the Transition to E-Learning: Strategies and Issues, pp. vii-xvi, Hershey, PA: Information Science Publishing.
University of British Columbia. (2012). Master of Educational Technology. Retrieved from http://met.ubc.ca/index.htm
University of British Columbia. (2012). Master of Educational Technology. Retrieved from http://met.ubc.ca/index.htm