EDIT 645 - Online Mentoring 3: Conceptual Learning

EDIT 645 - This one credit hour course is designed to assist students in the development of online mentoring skills related to the role that support of conceptual and content understanding plays in the success of online learning. Students will examine the language of thinking, thinking dispositions, mental management, strategic thinking , higher order knowledge, and transfer of learning as well as the way in which these can be supported in online learning environments. Through a series of case studies, students will examine online communications related to conceptual learning and discuss ways to improve and/or refine those communications. Finally, students will participate in role playing activities simulating email exchanges with virtual high school learners.