Certificate in Emerging Learning Technologies and AI

Combine deep attention to how people think and learn in real-world settings with skill in leveraging emerging technologies to design for impactful change.

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Certificate Overview

Technology and artificial intelligence (AI) are ubiquitous in our lives and hold enormous potential for education. Through this certificate, students interested in the interplay of cognition, learning and technology will capitalize on faculty expertise and human-centered design principles to support learning and human development in contexts both inside and outside of classrooms, by children and adults.

Career Opportunities

Positions for graduates with knowledge and experience in emerging learning technologies and AI include learning interaction designer, AI learning consultant, educational technology specialist, technology integration coach, instructional designer, E-learning developer, or learning and development specialist.

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Alyssa Wise, Professor of Technology and Education

"The goal is to help develop the future of new learning technologies and prepare students to participate in an ever-changing technological world. Many companies are developing new technologies and uses for them, so being well versed in what these technologies look like now and in the future is a very marketable skill."

Certificate Details

Certificate Director: Alyssa Wise

Required Hours: 12

Prerequisites: Completed Bachelor's degree plus current enrollment in a master's or doctoral degree program within Vanderbilt University

Home Academic Department: Teaching and Learning

Certificate Curriculum

This certificate has two required courses plus students choose two additional ones from a list that will grow over time.

Required Courses:

  • Technological Innovation and AI for Learning
  • Designing Future Learning Technologies

Additional Courses:

Two must be selected.

  • Cognitive Learning Technologies
  • Cognitive Science to the Classroom
  • Foundations of Human Computer Interaction (Engineering)
  • Fundamentals of Learning Analytics
  • Intelligent Learning Environments (Engineering)
  • Special Topics: Embodied Cognition ​
  • Special Topics: Machine Learning for Education
  • Special Topics: Sociology of AI (Arts & Sciences)
  • Teaching Digital Literacies
  • Technology-Based Entrepreneurship (Engineering)
  • Virtual Reality Design (Arts and Science)

Note: Certificate courses are subject to change.

Certificate Outcomes

Upon completion of the certificate, students will be able to:

  • Identify opportunities and limitations of new and established technologies for particular learning situations
  • Critically analyze how technologies form part of larger systems of activity where people think and learn
  • Imagine new futures for how technology could be designed differently to support cognition and development
  • Create socio-technical designs that leverage the learning possibilities of novel technologies

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Disclaimer

Not all Peabody professional degree programs include enough elective credits to make earning an additional certificate possible. Students are encouraged to confer with their program director as well as with certificate directors to ensure they can meet all requirements for both degree and certificate programs.

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