COURSE
DESCRIPTION:
A doctoral-level
research seminar in the field of instructional technology.
EME 7938 students focus on IT research literature, purposes, and
paradigms. The course is designed to engage students at the highest cognitive
levels, requiring extensive independent literature review, conceptualization,
evaluation, and writing. Students must
be able to deliver, to receive, and to apply constructive criticism. Appropriate mainly for IT doctoral, cognate,
& Ed.S. students, but doctoral students in other education disciplines who
possess the prerequisite competencies may inquire.
COURSE
OBJECTIVES:
1. Student
will gain broad understanding of the scholarly literature base pertaining to the
application of technology to instruction.
2. Student will be able to synthesize scholarly literature pertaining to
instructional technology.
3. Student will be able to identify and describe IT research paradigms.
4. Student will be able to identify IT research needs.
5. Student will be able to evaluate IT research questions and/or theories.
6. Student will be able to employ scholarly processes to articulate IT research
questions/ theories.
7. Student will be able to describe specific instantiations of IT research
questions/theories derived from scholarly processes.
8. Student will be able to produce a publication-quality research concept paper
that articulates a unique and appropriate IT research question/theory.
9. Student will be able to present to a group of educators a paper that
articulates an IT research question/theory.