LDT 100World Technologies and Learning

3 credits · Learning Design and Technology · Penn State

LDT 100 World Technologies and Learning (3) (GS;IL) explores the role of technology in learning across international contexts and the impact of these new learning technologies on world cultures. LDT 100 examines the sociocultural impacts of various learning technologies on learning, education, and culture. The course will examine several international cases of learning technologies (both contemporary and historical), as they are used for education and learning and implemented in several world cultures such as the US, UK, India, China, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The primary objective of the course is to help students understand how learning technologies impact other cultures, and their own; how learning technologies hold the potential to bring change to education and new forms of learning; and how these changes can be predicted, understood, and planned for. The course may offer an important introduction to the area of Learning, Design, and Technology, but it is otherwise not related to specific programs of study. It contributes to the General Education requirements for undergraduates.