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Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media

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Course Summary

This course explores the concept of multimodal literacies, which refers to the ability to read, write, and communicate using a variety of modes, including visual, audio, and digital. Students will learn how to analyze and create multimodal texts, as well as develop critical thinking and communication skills.

Key Learning Points

Understand the concept of multimodal literacies and its importance in today's society
Learn how to analyze and create multimodal texts using various modes of communication
Develop critical thinking and communication skills through multimodal literacy practices

Learning Outcomes

Ability to analyze multimodal texts using various modes of communication
Ability to create multimodal texts using various modes of communication
Developed critical thinking and communication skills

Prerequisites or good to have knowledge before taking this course

Basic computer skills
Proficiency in English

Course Difficulty Level

Intermediate

Course Format

Self-paced
Video lectures
Quizzes and assignments

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Description

Whereas the focus of traditional literacy pedagogy has been the written word in its standard and literary forms, this courser expands the scope of literacy learning to encompass contemporary multimodal texts and the wide range of ways of making meaning that occur in different social and cultural contexts. Another course, "Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies" addresses pedagogical aspects of literacies. This "Multimodal Literacies" learning module does not require or expect that participants will have already completed the "Literacy Teaching and Learning" module.

-------------------------------- Recommended Background -------------------------------- This course is designed for people interested in literacy teaching and learning, including people who may wish to join education as a profession, practicing teachers interested in exploring future directions for a vocation that is currently undergoing transformation, and community and workplace leaders who regard their mission to be in part "educative." -------------------------------- Related Resources -------------------------------- This course is based on the following book: https://www.amazon.com/Literacies-Mary-Kalantzis/dp/1107402190 Additional online resources are available here: https://newlearningonline.com/literacies https://newlearningonline.com/transpositional-grammar -------------------------------- Take this Course for Credit at the University of Illinois -------------------------------- This course has the same content and anticipates the same level of contribution by students in the e-Learning Ecologies course offered to graduate certificate, masters, and doctoral level students in the Learning Design and Leadership Program in the College of Education at the University of Illinois. Of course, in the nature of MOOCs many people will just want to view the videos and casually join some of the discussions. Some people say that these limited kinds of participation offer evidence that MOOCs suffer from low retention rates. Far from it – we say that any level of engagement is good engagement. On the other hand, if you would like to take this course for credit at the University of Illinois, you will find more information about our program here: https://newlearningonline.com/kalantzis-and-cope/learning-design-and-leadership-program And you can apply here: https://education.illinois.edu/epol/programs-degrees/ldl -------------------------------- The Learning Design and Leadership Series of MOOCs -------------------------------- This course is one of a series of eight MOOCs created by Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis for the Learning Design and Leadership program at the University of Illinois. If you find this MOOC helpful, please join us in others! e-Learning Ecologies: Innovative Approaches to Teaching and Learning for the Digital Age https://www.coursera.org/learn/elearning New Learning: Principles and Patterns of Pedagogy https://www.coursera.org/learn/newlearning Assessment for Learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/assessmentforlearning Learning, Knowledge, and Human Development https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-knowledge-human-development Ubiquitous Learning and Instructional Technologies https://www.coursera.org/learn/ubiquitouslearning Negotiating Learner Differences: Towards Productive Diversity in Learning https://www.coursera.org/learn/learnerdifferences Literacy Teaching and Learning: Aims, Approaches and Pedagogies https://www.coursera.org/learn/literacy-teaching-learning Multimodal Literacies: Communication and Learning in the Era of Digital Media https://www.coursera.org/learn/multimodal-literacies

Outline

Module 1: Course Orientation + Multimodal Meaning and Synesthesia
8.1 Introduction - Representation, Communication and Design
8.2 Design and Multimodality
8.3 A Grammar of Multimodal Meaning
8.4 Synesthesia or Mode Switching
Syllabus
Task Overview - How to Pass This Course
About the Discussion Forums
Take this Course as a Stepping Stone for a University of Illinois Certificate, Masters, or Doctorate - Fully Online!
Updating Your Profile
Social Media
"Regimes of Literacy," Kalantzis and Cope
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Orientation Quiz

Module 2: Making Meaning by Reading + Making Meaning by Writing + Making Visual Meaning
9.1 Learning to Read: Phonics
9.2 Learning to Read: Reading for Meaning
10.1 The Nature of Writing
10.2 Traditional Grammar and Its Impossibilities
10.3 Chomsky’s Grammar
10.4 Halliday’s Grammar
10.5 A Grammar of Multiliteracies
10.6 The Writing Process
11.1 The Contemporary Significance of Visual Meanings
11.2 Designs of Visual Meanings
11.3 Perceptual Images and Mental Images
11.4 A Grammar of the Visual
11.5 Deconstructing Images
11.6 Image Making as Design
11.7 Parsing Images
11.8 Multimodal Pedagogy in Practice
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Module 3: Making Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings + Making Audio and Oral Meanings + Literacies to Think and to Learn
12.1 Spatial, Tactile, and Gestural Meanings
12.2 A Grammar of Spatial Meaning
12.3 Tactile Meanings
12.4 A Grammar of Tactile Meaning
12.5 Gestural Meanings
12.6 A Grammar of Gestural Meanings
13.1 Making Audio Meanings
13.2 Making Meanings Using Oral Language
13.3 Synesthesia and Mode Shifting Between Oral and Written Meanings
13.4 Classroom Discussion in Speech and Writing
14.1 Literacies to Think and to Learn
14.2 On Human Meaning Systems
14.3 Academic Literacies as Ways of Thinking
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Module 4: Literacies and Learner Differences + Literacies Standards and Assessment
15.1 Literacies and Learner Differences
15.2 The Effects of Learner Differences
15.3 Literacies Learning and Development
15.4 Recognizing Learner Differences in Literacies Pedagogy
15.5 Complexities of Learner Differences
15.6 Differentiated Literacies Instruction
16.1 Approaches to Literacy Standards and Assessment
16.2 Standardized and Norm-referenced Assessment
16.3 Criterion Referenced Assessment
16.4 Progress Assessment
16.5 Select and Supply Response Assessments
16.6 Rubric-Based Peer and Formative Assessment
16.7 Big Data and the Future of Assessment
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Read the reviews for Coursera's Multimodal Literacies course to see what users thought about the course. Overall, users found it to be a helpful course with valuable content. Many users enjoyed the interactive assignments that allowed them to practice what they learned.

Key Aspect Users Liked About This Course

The interactive assignments

Pros from User Reviews

Valuable content
In-depth explanations
Engaging instructors
Flexibility to work at your own pace
Good for beginners

Cons from User Reviews

Some technical difficulties with the platform
Lack of interaction with other students
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