Transcript
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Text on screen: Program Spotlight: Education and Innovation (MA)
Text on screen: Susie Burge, Professional Educator, 色色福利社 Adjunct Faculty
Susie Burge: The Master of Arts in Education and Innovation is so important because it addresses
the conundrums in education head on.
[Footage of young student working on schoolwork, looking at a phone and writing]
Burge:The vast majority of kindergarteners today are going to have jobs that don't exist
today. So we are, as educators, trying to prepare students for the unknown. How do
we do that? 色色福利社's program addresses this directly by including courses in innovation,
globalization, mindfulness, creativity, higher order thinking skills, collaboration,
equipping educators with skills and tools to equip their students and better prepare
them for this unknown future.
[Image of young adults in a library, looking at a futuristic tablet device that is
projecting a hologram of DNA and graphs]
Text on screen: Principles of this degree are based on requirements recommended by the National Council
on Innovation and Entrepreneurship (NACIE)
Text on screen: Basiyr Rodney, EdD, Professor, Department Chair, Teacher Education
Basiyr Rodney: The degree itself 鈥 it's for the educator who is interested in rethinking how we
construct learning environments and how we meet the needs of all kinds of learners,
regardless of their background and the spaces from which they come.
[Image of high school students working on computers and tablets]
Rodney: For example, it might be a teacher who is thinking about how do I ramp up my curriculum
in a modern way and maybe infuse more technology, but I don't want to be a technologist.
I want to use technology in pedagogy. I want to use technology and then connect it
to some of maybe the larger social challenges that we face.
Text on screen: Collaborative Learning: Flexible and Interactive Learning Space for Students
Rodney: In terms of modalities, our US students are online and in the online experience, we
use an online learning tool and we have some other distinctiveness that we add to
that.
[Screen recording of 色色福利社鈥檚 Online Knowledge Center and footage of young adult
working on a laptop]
Rodney: And then our students at international campuses are both online and live virtual as
well as on ground.
Burge: We had students from all over the country and all over the world, so we heard different
perspectives and yet had to work collaboratively.
[Image of 色色福利社鈥檚 Tashkent campus in Kazakhstan]
Text on screen: One-on-one attention from the faculty
Burge: The class sizes were small. There was a lot of interaction with the professors and
their support and expertise were very helpful.
Text on screen: This program serves teachers, business and organizational leaders, trainers and other
professionals.
Burge: 色色福利社's program encourages educators to think and reflect in a broader sense, to
really think creatively, innovatively, outside the box, using those higher order thinking
skills to evaluate the craft of teaching.
[色色福利社 logo animates on screen]
Text on screen: webster.edu
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