Ed.M. in Educational Policy Studies with emphasis in New Learning and New Literacies

Program URL: http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/programs/online/newlearning/

Campus: Urbana-Champaign

Number of Required Campus Visits: None

Program Type: Master's Degree

Award Conferred: Master of Education

Total Number of Credit Hours: 32 Sem. Hr(s).

Admission Deadline: June 1, 2008

Description:
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.

Admission Requirement(s): Please visit http://www.ed.uiuc.edu/programs/online/admissions.html

Program Cost(s):

The current tuition rate for the 2009-10 academic year for each 4-hour course is $2,012 (USD) and $1,006 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.

Program Contact(s):

Department of Educational Policy Studies/New Learning and New Literacies
360 Education Building
1310 S. 6th St.
Champaign, IL 61820
Phone: (217) 333-2858
E-mail: newlearningonline@gmail.com
URL: http://newlearning.ed.uiuc.edu/