Multimodal Literacies Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media
Whereas the focus of traditional literacy pedagogy has been the written word in its standard and literary forms, this courser expands the scope of literacy learning to encompass contemporary multimodal texts and the wide range of ways of making meaning that occur in different social and cultural contexts. Another course, “Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies” addresses pedagogical …
Multimodal Literacies Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media
Whereas the focus of traditional literacy pedagogy has been the written word in its standard and literary forms, this courser expands the scope of literacy learning to encompass contemporary multimodal texts and the wide range of ways of making meaning that occur in different social and cultural contexts. Another course, “Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies” addresses pedagogical aspects of literacies. This “Multimodal Literacies” learning module does not require or expect that participants will have already completed the “Literacy Teaching and Learning” module.——————————– Recommended Background
This course is designed for people interested in literacy teaching and learning, including people who may wish to join education as a profession, practicing teachers interested in exploring future directions for a vocation that is currently undergoing transformation, and community and workplace leaders who regard their mission to be in part “educative.”
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Take this Course for Credit at the University of Illinois
This course has the same content and anticipates the same level of contribution by students in the Assessment for Learning course offered to graduate certificate, masters, and doctoral level students in the Learning Design and Leadership Program in the College of Education at the University of Illinois.
Of course, in the nature of MOOCs many people will just want to view the videos and casually join some of the discussions. Some people say that these limited kinds of participation offer evidence that MOOCs suffer from low retention rates. Far from it – we say that any level of engagement is good engagement.
On the other hand, if you would like to take this course for credit at the University of Illinois, you will find more information about our program here: https://ldlprogram.web.illinois.edu/overview/
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The Learning Design and Leadership Series of MOOCs
This course is one of a series of eight MOOCs created by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis for the Learning Design and Leadership program at the University of Illinois. If you find this MOOC helpful, please join us in others!
e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age https://www.coursera.org/learn/elearning
New Learning: Principles and Patterns of Pedagogy https://www.coursera.org/learn/newlearning
Assessment for Learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/assessmentforlearning
Learning, Knowledge, and Human Development https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-knowledge-human-development
Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies https://www.coursera.org/learn/ubiquitouslearning
Negotiating Learner Differences: Towards Productive Diversity in Learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/learnerdifferences
Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies https://www.coursera.org/learn/literacy-teaching-learning
Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media https://www.coursera.org/learn/multimodal-literacies
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Syllabus
Syllabus - What you will learn from this course
Week 1
Module 1: Course Orientation + Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia
This module introduces the key ideas of the course: communication, representation (or making meanings for oneself as an aid to thinking), and the design of meaning. Today, our tools for communication and representation have been widely expanded by digital tools. For these reasons, we need to extend our literacy pedagogy to encompass literacies in the plural, including a wider range of modes of meaning than alphabetic text alone.
Week 2
Module 2: Making Meaning by Reading + Making Meaning by Writing + Making Visual Meaning
This module begins with an overview of the conventional focus of literacy pedagogy – reading and writing. In its second half, the module applies a parallel set of tools to analysis of visual meanings.
Week 3
Module 3: Making Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings + Making Audio and Oral Meanings + Literacies to Think and to Learn
In this third module of the course, we examine spatial, tactile, gestural, audio, and oral meanings – all today part of a wider repertoire of teaching and learning that we call “literacies” in the plural, or “multiliteracies.” In the final section of the module, we explore how we use literacies to think in characteristically “academic” ways. In this sense, literacies play a critical supportive role in the learning process.
Week 4
Module 4: Literacies and Learner Differences + Literacies Standards and Assessment
The final module of the course examines the question of learner differences – including literacies learning at different age levels and second language learning. We also explore strategies for differentiated instruction. Finally, we investigate the range of assessment strategies that can be used to diagnose learner needs, offer feedback during the learning process, and evaluate learning outcomes.
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Excellent course in terms of content, presentation and delivery of lectures
Very incisive and comprehensive lectures and videos. The reading materials are accessible and useful. Thank you so much!
Ok too goo Good I learn on this way...there is lot types to communicate each other.
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