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Designing and Producing Media for Learning
EDU T530

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Description

This seminar is designed to introduce you to the experience of envisioning and creating media materials, i.e., no previous experience is expected or required. You get to choose the topic, objective, audience, and medium of your own project, and create it yourself, i.e., this course revolves around individual, not group work. Yet you will also become part of a creative community that emerges from reviewing, critiquing, and contributing to fellow students’ projects.

As a participant, you will have the opportunity to design, produce, test, and revise your own small-scale media project. At the same time, to experience the multiple roles and intensive partnerships that underlie a full-scale professional production, we will also meet together as a team to respond to, encourage, and advance one another's work.
 
Through readings, screenings, and encounters with expert practitioners, we will come to grips firsthand with issues of conceptualizing, designing, fashioning, and evaluating media projects. We will explore several analytic frameworks drawn from both instructional design and informal education research, and we will examine how different pedagogical, aesthetic, and functional attributes can contribute to the success of different learning goals.
 
You may design your creative product in the medium of your choice, including video, photography, graphics, apps, games, text, or other formats, and target it for broadcast, exhibition spaces, multimedia, the web, smart mobile devices, or other outlets.
 
No previous design or production experience is expected – this course is intended specifically for students who are eager to create something but haven’t had the opportunity (or the confidence) to try. The teaching team, along with HGSE IT and TLL staff, will help you acquire production skills as needed to pursue your individual project. The course will culminate in a premiere party, celebrating your completed project with classmates and guests.

Permission of instructor required. Prior production experience is not required - this is an introductory course. Following the preview session, prospective students will be asked to submit a brief project description, outlining objective, audience, and medium. Variety and diversity will be key criteria for selecting participants. Viewing the course preview and attending the live Q&A session are essential for students considering this course.
 

School Graduate School of Education
Credits 4
Cross Reg

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Department Education
Course Component Regular Course
Instruction Mode In Person
Subject Education
Grading Basis HGSE Student Option (Letter Graded, Sat/Unsat)
Learning Goals You will learn through experience all the steps required to design, produce, test, and revise a working media project.  What distinguishes this course is that the media you create will be your own individual project – not a team undertaking – designed to accomplish your own goal in a field of interest chosen by you.
Career Focus <p>You will learn through experience all the steps required to design, produce, test, and revise a working media project.&nbsp; As a result, you will leave the course with both a portfolio project to demonstrate your creativity, and the knowledge and skills to produce, and oversee the production of, media and technology-based learning materials.&nbsp; Your project, and the design process experience you have acquired, will significantly strengthen your application to positions in the media and technology industry, as well as to other project management positions, both commercial and non-profit, and applications for doctoral study.</p>