This exciting, new online master’s degree program is designed to help teachers create more engaging learning environments for their students, and to integrate new media and technologies into the classroom.
New learning encourages students to be active designers of their own knowledge, in contrast to old teaching, in which knowledge was handed down to them.
New literacies let students use new, digital media to enhance the ways in which they learn and understand, thus improving the learning process.
Participants in the program will interact and collaborate with fellow learners in other geographical locations using today’s social networking technologies. The program has been designed and coordinated by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, top scholars in the field. They are the authors of New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2008 and editors of Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures, Routledge, 2000.
Target audience:
K-12 language arts teachers and teachers or teacher educators in any other subjects who are interested in using new media and new technologies in their teaching.
Delivery Method:
Face-to-face/Videoconferencing
Online
Self-paced/Asynchronous
Credit options for courses within the program:
Degree seeking (admitted to a degree program)
Non-degree seeking (students not admitted to a degree program at the time of the course)
Non-credit/Audit
Number of Required Campus Visits: 0
Enrollment Type:
Cohort (students take online semester-based courses as a group)
Open Enrollment (enroll anytime)
Program duration:
2 years; 8 courses plus a capstone project. Each course is 10 weeks in length. Courses include:
- New Learning: How are teaching and learning changing in this time of dramatic social change involving new identities, global interconnectedness, and transformative technologies? What are today’s learners like, what do they need to learn, and how will they learn best?
- New Media and Learner Differences: How do we engage all learners effectively in today’s classrooms, characterized by diversity in all its forms?
- Trends and Issues in Language Arts: How can we expand our heritage understandings of alphabetical literacy to encompass the multimodality and dynamism of the new media, as well as maintaining scholarly rigor and social accountability?
- Knowledge, Learning and Pedagogy: How does one know? And learn? What are the fundamentals of pedagogy, and how does one translate these fundamentals into the design of deeply motivating and transformative learning environments?
- e-Learning Ecologies: How do students learn purposefully in the “e” world—autonomously and in groups by bringing e-learning techniques and resources into the classroom? What sort of new relationships, practices, and systems are emerging for what purposes—interpersonal, creativity, innovation, and high levels of technological and social competence?
- Historical and Social Barriers in Education: Foundations course
- Psychology of Learning in Education: Foundations course
- Assessment for Learning: How can we make assessment integral to the learning process? What affordances in the new technology allow for the integration of formative and summative and assessment and evaluation?
- Innovation Projects/Research Methods [Capstone Project Pt 1 & 2]: Design your own, special project which engages with the key ideas and models of “New Learning and New Literacies.”
Tuition/Program Costs: The current tuition rate for each 4-hour course is $1,816 (USD) and $908 for the 2-hour capstone course. This rate includes both tuition and fees. Reading materials are not included in these fees. The tuition rate is the same for in-state, out-of-state, and international students. The cost for future courses may be subject to moderate changes in accordance with the actions of the University of Illinois Board of Trustees.
Financial Aid is available in the form of
- Veteran/Military Grants
- Student Aid Loans
- A minimum of 1 scholarship per cohort/per program
Please contact us for more information.
Admission Requirement(s): Please visit www.ed.uiuc.edu/programs/online/admissions.html
Enrollment date:
- September 1 deadline for entry in January
- June 1 deadline for entry in July
Departmental Program Website: www.ed.uiuc.edu/programs/online/newlearning/
Program Contact(s): Bill Cope, Faculty Coordinator; Linda Smith-Tabb, Online Program Coordinator
College of Education
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: 217-333-2858
newlearning@ed.uiuc.edu 
