SOUTHFIELD ? Because technology has revolutionized the way teachers instruct their students, Lawrence Technological University has partnered with Marygrove College to offer this fall a Master?s Degree in Educational Technology.
With computers in the classroom, Web-based learning tools, streaming video, and hundreds of software and hardware choices ? teachers and school administrators must keep up-to-date and understand their options. The Master of Educational Technology degree will help meet this demand, said LTU President Charles Chambers and Marygrove President Glenda Price announced in a joint statement Thursday.
The agreement makes it possible for Lawrence Tech students to complete some of the program’s required course work at Marygrove and vice versa. Upon completion, the degree will be issued from the college at which the student is enrolled.
?The Master of Educational Technology is a means for teachers to improve their teaching skills at the same time they improve learning for their K-12 students through the use of educational technology,? Chambers said. ?The teachers who complete this degree will be ready to most effectively guide their students in using technology as a learning aide.?
The Master of Educational Technology is a practice-oriented program covering all aspects of the integration of technology into the classroom. It is open to all teachers who wish to increase their skills in using technology in their classrooms.
?The student-centered classroom, while still revolutionary to some, is the wave of teaching in the 21st Century,?? Price said. ?Instead of ?old school? teaching methods where the instructor is the center of the classroom and the disseminator of information, tomorrow?s students will be much more self-directed, research-savvy, and advanced users of information-age tools.?
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