Educational Technology

Academic unit or major

Teacher education courses

Instructor(s)

Masao Murota / Yuuri Kimura / Kentaro Nagahara

Class Format

Exercise (Face-to-face)

Media-enhanced courses

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Day of week/Period
(Classrooms)

7-8 Wed (W9-325(W934))

Class

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Course Code

LAT.A203

Number of credits

010

Course offered

2026

Offered quarter

1Q

Syllabus updated

Mar 5, 2026

Language

Japanese

Syllabus

Course overview and goals

- This course builds upon foundational knowledge from subjects such as Introduction to Teaching and Basic Theories of Education. It covers educational technology approaches to instructional design and improvement, models related to teaching and learning, fundamental teaching methods, and methods for instructional design and evaluation.
- This class is designed to learn and practice the theory necessary to write instructional plans that give concrete images of the intentions of the classes to be conducted, the activities of the learners in those classes, and the problems expected and how to respond to them.

Course description and aims

Students are required to achieve following objectives:
1) Be interested in usefulness of, recognize necessity of, and can apply principles and techniques of instructional technology
2) Can memorize and explain knowledge, methods, and their relationship necessary to design→perform→assess→improve lessons.
3) Can describe a lesson plan according to the process model of instructional design while taking consideration with the items in the Check-list of Lesson Plans.
4) Can propose ideas to improve lesson plans and skills of instruction on the basis of learned checkpoints while participating in microteaching.
5) Cultivate attitude to collect information that suggests current needs and situations of school education, to clarify assessment viewpoints of good education, and raise them through designing more appropriate lessons.
6) Cultivate professional ethics to clarify own issues addressed before practice teaching and try to solve them.

Keywords

Educational/instructional technology, instructional method, Instructional Design, Learning Model, Three-ways Communication Model, ARCS Model, Teaching Activity Model, Taxonomy of Educational Objectives, Nine Events of Instruction, Micro-teaching, Skills of Instruction, Educational Evaluation, Learning Evaluation

Competencies

• Specialist skills
• Intercultural skills
• Communication skills
• Critical thinking skills
• Practical and/or problem-solving skills

Class flow

Proceeded based on prior learning, mutual learning and teaching in class, and post-class learning (assignments)

Course schedule/Objectives

Study advice (preparation and review)

Textbook(s)

Materials will be provided as needed.

Reference books, course materials, etc.

Listed in the Japanese section.

Evaluation methods and criteria

60% of each lesson's assignment and 40% of the final exam.

Related courses

• LAT.A101 ： Introduction to the Teaching Profession A
• LAT.A102 ： Introduction to the Teaching Profession B
• LAT.A103 ： Educational Foundations A
• LAT.A112 ： Educational Foundations B
• LAT.A104 ： Development and Learning I
• LAT.A105 ： Development and Learning II

Prerequisites

・Students are required to earn all credit for related courses shown above. A student who is not fresher and has not completed one or more courses needs to pass the pre-test to attend the course before starting the course. For the schedule of the eligibility examinations, please refer to the Teacher's Education Web page. (Part-time students are required to contact the professor before applying the admission office in order to confirm whether prerequisites are satisfied.)

Contact information (e-mail and phone) Notice : Please replace from ”[at]” to ”@”(half-width character).

edutech[at]te.ila.isct.ac.jp （note: convert ”[at]” to ”@”)

Office hours

Please send an e-mail for appointment.

Other

・Students who intend to take only “Industry” license are recommended to take the course at the third grade.