Courses
MS Innovative Technologies In Learning stands out due to its distinctive approach in offering a diverse array of courses to students.
MSITL Core Courses
Game Design
Design of Games for Learning
The course, “Design of games for learning” provides students with a theoretical and conceptual understanding of the field of learning game design, along with practical exposure to the process of creating a game with primary focus is on the learning outcomes.
Psychology
Psychology of Learning and Cognition
This course help students to develop an understanding of various cognitive processes like memory, problem solving and reasoning. To use this understanding of cognitive processes as a set of rules and try to see how such rules help understand human behavior and enable designing efficient tools for human use.
Technology
Role of Technology in Education
This course develop a basic understanding of how technology can facilitate and encourage learning. Introduction to various technological innovations that enhance the learning experience. Discover methodologies to integrate the said technologies into a classroom
Pedagogy and Technology
Learning Through Pedagogy and Technology
This course enables students to create interactive learning applications which are irresistibly engaging, technologically ubiquitous, and steeped in real life problem solving. Students can instantly measure (and record) the amount of learning taking place in a classroom or at home.
Learning Interfaces
Design of Learning Interfaces
On successful completion of this course students will be able to: Analyze the user interface requirements, Design Interfaces that assist the user. Evaluate a design and subsequently redesign.
Research
Research Methodology
This course includes understanding what research involves and how to manage a sustained piece of study. Communication is clearly an important aspect of research and the course aims to develop the writing, presentation and associated inter-personal skills. The style of the course is necessarily concise but will attempt to blend a mix of theory with examples that guide the application of what is learned.
MSITL Elective Courses
Learning
Universal Design for Learning
The challenge and opportunity of individual differences confront every teacher, administrator, and curriculum designer. To meet that challenge and to capitalize on that opportunity, educators are typically equipped with media and materials that are “one size fits all” and that have been designed primarily for a narrow and illusive group of “regular” students. In this course, we will explore an alternative approach – universal design for learning (UDL) – that creates curricula and learning environments that are designed to achieve success for a much wider range of student abilities and disabilities.
Pedagogy
Pedagogy of the Oppressed: Critical Thinking
This course is guided by the belief that education is a set of political, economic and cultural relationships that reflect the dominant social arrangements in a society. Issues of power and powerlessness are central to the course as they illuminate how social arrangements are imagined, constructed and challenged. Our focus is the society of Pakistan and how education can play a fundamental role in the transformation of this society.
enterprenuership
Innovative Entrepreneurship in Education
This course, provide students with core business skills and experiences, e.g. marketing, finance, & management that they can use to become entrepreneurs in education. In addition also enable students understand the challenges and opportunities available in the education sector that they could capitalize on to contribute to the social development of their society by coming up with innovative solutions.
Education
Quality Online Education
In this course students will thoroughly understand the online education tools and applications Understand the variation among learners in terms and inclusive learning environment to the people with special needs Acquire hands-on experience of implementing online tools and applications in virtual classrooms through semester project
STEM
Digital Information Literacy in STEM
Introduction to Information & Digital LiteracyFoundations of Digital LiteracyAccessing & Searching for Digital InformationEvaluating Digital InformationManage Digital InformationDisseminating & Communicating InformationImplementation of concepts in STEM Referencing, Incorporating Sources & Avoiding Plagiarism
Tools and Technologies
Powerful Tools and Technologies for Learning
Latest tools provide innovative ways to communicate, present content, and collaborate with others in creative ways and are easy to learn, use, and implement, and many are free. This course will not only introduce popular Web 2.0 tools like Edmodo, Twitter, Voice thread, and Skype in education, but students will also learn how to effectively integrate these technologies into classroom practices.
Approaches of Learning
Innovative Approaches of Learning in the Digital Era
Develop the skills and confidence of educators in the appropriate/effective use of digital technology to support learning Improve access to digital technology for all learners Ensure that digital technology is a central consideration in all areas of curriculum and assessment delivery Empower leaders of change to drive innovation and investment in digital technology for learning and teaching
Education
Future of Work Shaping Education
This course will examine the technological changes that are driving the future of work and the future of education. It will cover topics related to upskilling the human capacity in order to bridge the human development index. It will explore recent impacts of new technological innovations, and responses by the education sector to provide new credentials.
Learning
Learning How to Learn
This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in science, technology, art and math. We shall learn about how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates information. This course will also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects.