Education Technology, Innovation, and Education - Harvard University

Education Technology, Innovation, and Education from Harvard University is a Campus Master Teaching degree that prepares you for a Education career. The Technology , Innovation, and Education (TIE) program prepares students to contribute to the thoughtful design, implementation, and assessment of technology -enhanced educational innovations. Graduates of the program go on to careers in varied fields, including development of educational media, leadership of technological innovation in both formal and informal learning settings, evaluation of educational technologies and programs, policy development and analysis, teaching with new technologies, and research. The program is grounded on the conviction that technologies can be tools to improve and transform learning, and that the study of these tools should be embedded in analysis of the educational purposes they serve and the contexts in which they are applied. TIE courses address the design, implementation, and analysis of educational technologies: -Foundational courses provide an introduction to fundamental issues in teaching, learning, and research related to educational technologies. -Courses on the design and development of educational technologies focus on design principles and their application in the creation of technologies that support and express learning. TIE courses deal with a wide variety of tools and media, including text, hypermedia, modeling and simulation software, websites, multi-user virtual environments, collaborative learning tools, authoring shells, handheld devices, digital video, broadcast television, and webcasts. The emphasis is on using design to serve educational purposes. -Courses on the transformation of education with new technologies focus on understanding how to manage multiple dimensions of change to improve and radically alter education through technological innovations. Principles of organizational learning and systems change, strategies for working with multiple stakeholders, and policies to promote educational opportunity and equity are analyzed in relation to the role of technology in transforming education . -Research, evaluation, and assessment courses enable students to analyze the process and effects of technology -enhanced innovation in a range of educational settings. Courses address assessment of initiatives and policies associated with new technologies in classrooms, school systems, higher education , and informal learning organizations. The emphasis is on learning how to formulate research designs and to collaborate with multiple interest groups in conducting research that is both rigorous and practical. Most TIE students take advantage of the array of additional learning opportunities available throughout Harvard University and at MIT. To deepen their understanding of the connections between theory and practice, students may also choose to undertake an internship in one of the many schools, research projects, educational technology and media organizations, and technology -related consulting firms in the Boston area. View more details on Harvard University . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Teaching courses.