UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

Department of Special Needs Education

Course Overview

Introduction

Digital Learning Skills Development program is specially designed for those who have digital learning enthusiasm and strong aims to enhance their digital learning and entrepreneurial skills. Such innovative skills willlead them to the best creative practices in their lives and will enable them to make their own distinguishing place in the world.21st Century Skills achievement is the main focus of this initiative that can make our student independent and self-reliant. This two months long course comprises of multi-disciplinary themes e.g. designing, critical thinking, digital social skills development, and entrepreneurship.

Objectives

  • To evaluate technology’s impact on learning and development in education.
  • To excel in designing interactive learning applications and provide innovative learning solutions to cater special needs students.
  • To develop entrepreneurial innovations in educational practice to enable students for starting their own digital businesses.

Learning Outcomes

  1. To provide digital skills by improving decision making, designing and developing expertise according to the need of 21st century skills.
  2. Educating students by providing an innovative way of thinking and working in a creative environment.
  3. Providing an entrepreneurial skills guideline to the students and helping them to initialize their own start-up/business to stand out in the modern society.

 Course Modules

Week

Theme of the Week

Workshop Plan of the Module

01

 

Introduction to the course

The benefits, uses and importance of the digital skills integration to become creative and critical thinker

Workshops:

Introduction to E-Posters Designing, E-Portfolios Designing 

02

 

TPACK-Application of Pedagogical tools and techniques to design pedagogical content

 

Workshops:

Stop Motion Animation

Tool : Flash

03

 

Technology in Education (Blended Learning, E-Learning, MOOCS, Learning through Games, Learning applications, etc.)

 

Workshops:

Software/ Tool : iBook author

 

04

 

 

Technology Integration through Pedagogy

 

Workshops:

Digital Prototyping techniques

Software: Storyboard.com

05

 

Pedagogy for STEAM(Science,Technology,Education, Arts, Mathematic) Education

 

Workshops: 

Designing STEAM Lesson on an online tool

06

 

 Designing interactive assessments on online assessment tools

 

 

Workshops:

Making online assessments for all kinds of the learners

Online Tool: Educaplay&Padlet

07

 Enhancing Digital Designing Skills

( Adobe Photoshop)

Workshops:

Introducing Adobe Photoshop and designing vectors, characters etc.

08

 

 

 

 

Introduction to Innovative Digital Entrepreneurship Skills

Workshops:

Initiating and working with online accounts on Fiver and Freelance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date & Timing

Duration: 2 months.
Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday.
Timing: 4pm-6pm

Certificate
Upon successful completion students will be awarded with a certificate of attending “Digital Learning Skills Program” at UMT.

Fee & Payment
Complete course charges=PKR 15,000/
You can pay your fee in installments.
• First installment= PKR 5000/-
• Second installment= PKR 5000/-
• Third installment= PKR 5000/-

Application process
You have required to register through admission office at University of Management and Technology. For this contact: 

[email protected] | [email protected]  +923371426718 | +923338809800 

Students with disabilities
The course is accessible for students with disabilities. Disability Resource Centre will provide effective accessibility services to all students with disabilities.

 

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