EST 521 - The Social and Global Impact of Technology in Education

This course will explore educational systems and practices globally and how the use or lack of use of technology within education impacts society. Inversely students will research how society dictates the use or lack of use of technology in education within the specified educational system. Throughout the course, students will focus on one region of the world and research the current educational system and specifically how they use technology within education. In their research they will find out what technology is available within the educational system, how that technology is used, explore the effectiveness of the technology and research the social impact of that technology use. Students will connect with a global participant via distance communication or video conferencing to gain real world knowledge of the educational system and the use of technology for the specified region. The culminating project is a research based project that assesses the use of technology within the selected global region, offers solutions on how to improve the use of technology and compares that system and the use of technology with our own use of technology locally in our current educational system.

3 credits

Grading Letter graded (A, A-, B+, etc.)

Offered Fall, Spring, and Summer