Major Concepts/Content: Emerging technologies gives a student the opportunity to explore technologies in a way that will allow them to be responsible for their own learning.

Major Instructional Activities: Students will examine a new or recent technological development via individual or group research, small group or whole-class discussion, and the production and presentation of projects or other culminating activities.  Students will use electronic learning services to access additional resources.

Major Evaluative Techniques: Students will be required to

• Submit rationales for studying particular innovations and plans for their learning
• Describe or otherwise present their work in progress
• Produce or deliver a final project or activity

Essential Objectives: Upon completion of the course, students should be able to

• Identify the technology to be studied and supply a rationale for the study.
• Seek and identify sources of information on new technology.
• Develop a plan for achieving the desired learning.
• Carry out the learning plan, producing an appropriate demonstration of the learning (e.g., written or oral report, computer programs, mentoring activity).
• Evaluate progress in the learning plan and modify it as circumstances dictate.
• Evaluate resulting products/activity and their learning.
• Explain about the change process.
• Develop a plan for anticipating change.
• Identify solutions and problems that go beyond the expected and obvious.

Last Revised: July 18, 2005