AECT Standards

Standard 1: Content Knowledge

Candidates demonstrate the knowledge necessary to create, use, assess, and manage theoretical and practical applications of educational technologies and processes.

Candidates demonstrate the ability to create instructional materials and learning environments using a variety of systems approaches.

EdTech 513 Haiku Deck

Candidates demonstrate the ability to select and use technological resources and processes to support student learning and to enhance their pedagogy.

Candidates demonstrate the ability to assess and evaluate the effective integration of appropriate technologies and instructional materials.

Candidates demonstrate the contemporary professional ethics of the field as defined and developed by the Association for Educational Communications and Technology.

EdTech 501 Code of Professional Ethics

Standard 2: Content Pedagogy

Candidates develop as reflective practitioners able to demonstrate effective implementation of educational technologies and processes based on contemporary content and pedagogy.

Candidates apply content pedagogy to create appropriate applications of processes and technologies to improve learning and performance outcomes

Candidates implement appropriate educational technologies and processes based on appropriate content pedagogy.

Candidates demonstrate an inquiry process that assesses the adequacy of learning and evaluates the instruction and implementation of educational technologies and processes grounded in reflective practice.

EdTech 505 Prodigy Evaluation

Candidates manage appropriate technological processes and resources to provide supportive learning communities, create flexible and diverse learning environments, and develop and demonstrate appropriate content pedagogy.

EdTech 511 Articulate Projects

Candidates design and select media, technology, and processes that emphasize the diversity of our society as a multicultural community.

Standard 3: Learning Environments

Candidates facilitate learning by creating, using, evaluating, and managing effective learning environments.

Candidates create instructional design products based on learning principles and research-based best practices.

EdTech 513 Worked Example

Candidates make professionally sound decisions in selecting appropriate processes and resources to provide optimal conditions for learning based on principles, theories, and effective practices.

EdTech 502 WebQuest

Candidates use multiple assessment strategies to collect data for informing decisions to improve instructional practice, learner outcomes, and the learning environment.

Candidates establish mechanisms for maintaining the technology infrastructure to improve learning and performance.

Candidates foster a learning environment in which ethics guide practice that promotes health, safety, best practice, and respect for copyright, Fair Use, and appropriate open access to resources.

EdTech 502 Fair Use Scavenger Hunt

Candidates foster a learning community that empowers learners with diverse backgrounds, characteristics, and abilities.

EdTech 506 Final Project

Standard 4: Professional Knowledge and Skills

Candidates design, develop, implement, and evaluate technology-rich learning environments within a supportive community of practice.

EdTech 503 Instructional Design Project

EdTech 512 Canvas Course

Candidates analyze and interpret data and artifacts and reflect on the effectiveness of the design, development and implementation of technology-supported instruction and learning to enhance their professional growth.

EdTech 513 Coherence Analysis

Candidates design and implement assessment and evaluation plans that align with learning goals and instructional activities.

Candidates demonstrate ethical behavior within the applicable cultural context during all aspects of their work and with respect for the diversity of learners in each setting.

EdTech 505 Final Project

Standard 5: Research

Candidates explore, evaluate, synthesize, and apply methods of inquiry to enhance learning and improve performance

EdTech 501 Annotated Bibliography