WelcomeWelcome to New Learning and New Literacies Online Masters Program
at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.‘New learning' is an approach to education that engages students as active designers and co-designers of their own knowledge. ‘New literacies' aims to expand learners' meaning-making modes and capacities, and uses digital media to enhance student learning.
Designed for TeachersThis exciting, new online masters program looks forward to a future where education is even more central to society, the economy and personal opportunity than it is today. Today's education is ubiquitous, taking place not just at school, but at home, at work and in community settings, and the new digital media occupies a central position in New Learning. Participants in the program will be teachers of literacy and teachers in other discipline areas who wish to investigate language across the curriculum, and the broader question of the communicative or representational conditions of learning. Participants able to join the program will have training and professional experience ranging from the early years of schooling to adult learning. The program supplements traditional, alphabetical notions of literacy (including the literacies required for learning across a wide range of discipline areas), with a broader conception of literacy in the context of new media, global communications and cultural and linguistic diversity.
