Be Current With the Newest Technology
The Advanced Professional Certificate (APC) in Emergent Technologies for Educators is an online program in which educators explore and discuss new technologies in a teaching, learning, social, and historical context. Gain an understanding of the newest learning environments, as well as digital, mobile, and beta tools.
Explore, evaluate, and learn to accommodate technologies and their applications in the classroom. Current courses include smartphone apps, robotics, and digital and emerging technology technologies.
Key program information for APC in Emergent Technologies:
- 12 credits (4 courses)
- Classes delivered entirely online
- May be used as part of the Individually Designed M.Ed. or the Educational Technology M.Ed.
- Prerequisite: Bachelor’s Degree
- New courses incorporated routinely as advances and innovations are discovered
View the program of study and course descriptions [PDF] for the Advanced Professional Certificate in Emergent Technologies.
SAMPLE PROGRAM COURSE
ECOMP 7010 Emerging Technologies
Educators experiment with leading edge technologies such as streaming audio and video, GIS, hand-held devices, virtual reality environments, web-based technologies, and applets to determine their usefulness in teaching, learning, integration into curricula, and matching technologies to students’ learning styles. They build knowledge, expertise, and experience in identifying the efficacy of future technologies in enhancing student learning and enabling students to learn new topics and ideas previously out of reach.