#  T530: Designing and Producing Media for Learning 

 





 Semester:   Spring 

 

 

 

This seminar is designed to introduce you to the experience of envisioning and creating media materials for learning. As a participant, you will have the opportunity to design, produce, test, and revise an *individual* small-scale project. In other words, you get to choose the topic, objective, audience, and medium of your own project, and create it yourself.  
  
Most full-scale media projects are collaborative efforts, in which a team undertakes a series of coordinated activities, including content and audience research, creative design, production of pilot materials, formative testing, and redesign. To explore this process, we will also meet together as a "production team" to review, critique, and advance one another's work.  
  
Through readings, screenings, and encounters with expert practitioners, we will come to grips firsthand with issues of conceptualizing, designing, fashioning, and evaluating media projects. We will explore several analytic frameworks drawn from both instructional design and informal education research, and we will examine how different pedagogical, aesthetic, and functional attributes contribute to the success of different learning goals.  
  
You may design your creative product in the medium of your choice, including video, photography, graphics, apps, games, or other formats for broadcast, exhibition spaces, multimedia, the web, smart mobile devices, or other outlets.  
  
No previous design or production experience is required or expected -- this course is intended specifically for students who are eager to create a media product but haven't had the opportunity (or the confidence) to try. The teaching team, along with HGSE IT and TLL staff, will help you acquire production skills as needed to pursue your individual project. The course will culminate in a premiere party, celebrating your completed project with classmates and guests.



 

 



 

 See also:- [ Elective Course ](/course-type/elective-course)
- [ Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) ](/school/harvard-graduate-school-education-hgse)