Combine deep attention to how people think and learn in real-world settings with skill in leveraging emerging technologies to design for impactful change by adding a Graduate Certificate in Emerging Learning Technologies and AI to your professional masters degree program.
Certificate Overview
Technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous in our lives and hold enormous potential for education. Through this certificate, students interested in the interplay of cognition, learning and technology will capitalize on faculty expertise and human-centered design principles to support learning and human development in contexts both inside and outside of classrooms, by children and adults.
Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:
- Identify opportunities and limitations of new and established technologies for particular learning situations
- Critically analyze how technologies form part of larger systems of activity where people think and learn
- Imagine new futures for how technology could be designed differently to support cognition and development
- Create socio-technical designs that leverage the learning possibilities of novel technologies
Certificate Curriculum
This certificate has two required courses plus students choose two additional ones from a list that will grow over time.
Required Courses:
- Technological Innovation and AI for Learning
- Designing Future Learning Technologies
Additional Courses:
Two must be selected.
- Cognitive Learning Technologies
- Cognitive Science to the Classroom
- Foundations of Human Computer Interaction (Engineering)
- Fundamentals of Learning Analytics
- Intelligent Learning Environments (Engineering)
- Special Topics: Embodied Cognition
- Special Topics: Quantitative Ethnography
- Special Topics: Machine Learning for Education
- Special Topics: Sociology of AI (Arts & Sciences)
- Teaching Digital Literacies
- Technology-Based Entrepreneurship (Engineering)
- Virtual Reality Design (Arts and Science)
Related courses with certificate director’s approval. Visit the certificate page to learn more and consult with your primary program director about how you can add the certificate to your professional degree.