Introduction to Learning Sciences (FORM 7230)

Education · Boston College

This course introduces the content and skills needed to thrive as systematic designers of learningexperiences, environments, and technologies. It focuses on four themes: (i) how people learn cognitive processes involved in learning and social, cultural, physical, affective, and otherprocesses that work alongside those to influence what is learned; (ii) how to foster or promotelearning -- what we know about the help learners need to engage and participate at their best andultimately to become more knowledgeable and capable; (iii) designing for learners andanalyzing those designs -- how to apply

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