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There are several very good looking courses here and I encourage you to take a look. Please excuse cross postings & forward to those who may be interested: *** As you plan your summer course schedule, please keep these Instructional Technology course offerings in mind: **Full ten week session: IT570, Instructional systems design, blended/DE, 3:45-5:45 pm, TR. This course equips participants with a systematic approach to designing and developing instruction for public and private sector organizations. Learners will apply design processes, and analyze and evaluate existing instructional materials, individually and in teams, and will create instruction for face-to-face, online and blended learning environments. Note that this course is also designed to prepare those students taking IT578 in the fall to collaborate with a Knoxville client on an authentic project. For more information contact Dr. Miriam Larson at [log in to unmask] *Please note, in the second summer session this class will only meet from 3:45-4:45, so you can take both IT570 and IT532 if you wish. **First session: IT595/695, Transitioning to cloud land (special topics), face to face, 1:30-3pm, TWR. This will be a seminar-format class in which the group reads and discusses several works related to the sea-change shift that is occurring in the nature of how our society will interact with networks, servers and personal computers over the next decade. Data access, ownership, privacy protections and numerous other issues will change as a result of the evolution in networking speed and resources that is ushering in this change. Students will begin with a series of provided readings and then engage in personal research and interaction with the class as we work together to understand the scope and likely impact of these impending changes on society and our economy. For more information contact Dr. Michael Waugh: [log in to unmask] **Second session: IT532: Introduction to computer-mediated communication (CMC), face to face, 5:00-8:45pm, TR. This course is designed for graduate students interested in understanding how human communication has changed, and is changed by, electronic environments such as e-mail, texting, Facebook, and discussion forums, to name a few. We will explore the history and development of CMC environments, existing research on CMC, and the implications of CMC for the design of teaching and learning environments. Students will collect and analyze CMC data of interest to them, learning how to make sense of it from both research and practical perspectives. For more information, please contact Dr. Paulus: [log in to unmask] and course updates will be posted here: http://introcmc.blogspot.com/ IT595: Computer lab management (special topics), face to face, 5-9 pm, MW. This is a class for graduate students to learn what they need to know about managing and designing computer labs for education. The course will include guest speakers on topics such as 1-to-1 laptop programs and information security, will be held in multiple computer lab areas around campus, and will also feature at least one night of off-campus visits to local facilities like Episcopal School of Knoxville and Pellissippi State. While the course is ideal for Instructional Technology majors the content is designed to work for any major and anyone with an interest in learning about computer labs is welcome to join us. For more information, please contact Dr. Caudill: [log in to unmask] EP604: Digital tools for qualitative research (special topics), face to face, 5:00-9:00 pm, MW. This course may count as a research course and/or a 600 level IT course, and this course counts toward the graduate certificate in qualitative research methods. This hands-on, skills-based course will give students experiences using a variety of technologies for qualitative research studies. The course will highlight how new technologies are changing the essence of what it means to engage in qualitative inquiry. Many aspects of the research process will be explored, such as literature reviews (database searching, iannotate, Endnote/Zotero), researcher reflexivity/collaboration/project management (blogs, wikis, Skype, dropbox), data collection (e.g. virtual communities as research contexts, online interviewing/focus groups), data analysis (Inqscribe, Atlas.ti,Transana), and representation of findings (digital video/photography). A list of recommended hardware and software programs will be provided prior to the start of class. For more information, please contact Dr. Paulus: [log in to unmask] and course updates will be posted here: http://digitalqual.blogspot.com/ Miriam L. E. Steiner Davis, Ph.D. Instructor - School of Information Sciences Post-doctoral Research Associate and Project Manager: Increasing Biological Information Sources Center for Information and Communication Studies The University of Tennessee Mail: 1345 Circle Park Drive, Suite 420 Physical: Hoskins 5, Room 5-G 865-974-7814 (voice) 865-974-7973 (fax) [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>