ADL courses and their Big Hairy Audacious Goals (BHAG):

EDLD 5302
Learners will take ownership and agency over the learning process and incorporate choice and voice in designing authentic projects that use technology innovation as a catalyst for change in their organizations.

EDLD 5303
Learners will create an ePortfolio to share their work, reflect on their growth, and develop their voice.

EDLD 5304
Learners will apply leadership theories and practices to become self-differentiated leaders who can address the inevitable resistance to change that will occur when launching innovative digital learning initiatives.

EDLD 5305
Learners will explore technology innovations and embrace them as opportunities rather than challenges and proactively use those changes as catalysts to enhance their institution or district’s learning environments.

EDLD 5313
Learners will identify and incorporate constructivist theories to create and implement significant digital learning environments.

EDLD 5315
Learners will be able to assess the instructional impact the implementation of their innovation plans have on creating effective digital learning environments.

EDLD 5317
Learners will examine a variety of digital environments and other digital resources to effectively communicate with others the practical implementation and the pedagogical value for educational use.

EDLD 5318
Students will apply constructivist learning theories and instructional design principles in the development and delivery of an online course utilizing significant learning environments through selected course management tools.

EDLD 5389
Learners will effectively apply an innovative teaching practice by collaborating with colleagues to evaluate their impact on learners and design and model authentic professional learning (PL) activities that are active, have a significant duration, and are specific to their discipline.

EDLD 5320
Learners will synthesize their knowledge, skills, beliefs, and values gained through their digital learning and leadership experiences and present a comprehensive plan on how they developed into digital learners and leaders that can identify and promote innovation, create significant digital learning environments, and lead organizational change.

ADL links:
Applied Digital Learning
DLL Evolves to ADL
CSLE+COVA
ADL Why & Principles
Assessment OF/FOR/AS Learning
ADL Program Map
What You Get From the ADL
How to Succeed in the ADL
ADL Course Goals
ADL Tips & Perspectives

Revised on August 16, 2021

Please note: The ADL course goals and program map must be read from the bottom starting from EDLD 5305 then moving onto 5302, 5303, and so on. The large red text points to the main plan, strategy, or publication that you will have created upon completion of the course.

ADL links:
Applied Digital Learning
DLL Evolves to ADL
CSLE+COVA
ADL Why & Principles
Assessment OF/FOR/AS Learning
ADL Program Map
What You Get From the ADL
How to Succeed in the ADL
ADL Course Goals
ADL Tips & Perspectives

Revised on August 16, 2021

If someone needs directions, don’t give them a globe. It’ll merely waste their time. But if someone needs to understand the way things are, don’t give them a map. They don’t need directions; they need to see the big picture (Seth Godin, 2017 para. 1).

In order to do well in the ADL, you need to see the bigger picture of how this program works. More specifically you need to see the bigger picture of how we have created a significant learning environment in which we give you choice ownership and voice through authentic learning opportunities.

The following pages and videos have been designed to help you understand why and how we use CSLE+COVA in the ADL and what that will mean to your learning experience. We recommend that you use the following pages in sequence but as you will see in the ADL program we leave that choice up to you:

Change in Focus
You will find that these two videos (Part A – 7 min & Part B – 4 Min) will help you to recognize how a simple change in focus can help you and your organization stay focused on helping your learners to realize their full potential and grow into future leaders who will help improve our world.

COVA
The short page and video (2 min) provide the overview and context for COVA and will help to reinforce how important it is to have choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities.

CSLE+COVA Framework
The short page and video (2 min) provide the overview and context for CSLE+COVA.

Why CSLE+COVA
Since people don’t buy into what you do but buy why you do the CSLE+COVA Why, How and What page and the short 4 Keys to CSLE+COVA (5 min) provide the foundational starting point about how to use technology to enhance learning.

What to expect from the ADL
Constructivists hold that people learn by making meaningful connections between what they already know and what is new. Therefore, it is our hope that the What to Expect video (6 min) which compares and contrasts the CSLE+COVA to the traditional information transfer model will help you to understand how to deal with the differences you will experience in the ADL program

What you get from the ADL
Since the ADL program uses authentic learning opportunities that are core to the constructivist CSLE+COVA approach this page points to all the authentic, plans, strategies, and related resources that you will create in the program.

ADL Program Map
The ADL Program Map page and related video (8 min) will give you a detailed explanation, and a visual representation of how the ADL program works and how each of the courses works together to help you build, implement and measure an innovation plan that will help you succeed as a digital leader.

CSLE
Once you have gone through the above pages and videos going back to the CSLE page will help to reinforce how important it is to look at creating significant learning environments.

Research
We encourage everyone to always look at the research and supporting ideas and theories behind what you read. The CSLE+COVA and the ADL program are based on well-established constructivist theories and research so we encourage you to explore these foundational ideas further.

References
Godin, S. (2017, January 8). Maps and globes [Blog]. Retrieved from http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2017/01/maps-and-globes.html

ADL links:
Applied Digital Learning
DLL Evolves to ADL
CSLE+COVA
ADL Why & Principles
Assessment OF/FOR/AS Learning
ADL Program Map
What You Get From the ADL
How to Succeed in the ADL
ADL Course Goals
ADL Tips & Perspectives

Revised on August 16, 2021

Because we give our learners choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities when you complete the ADL program you will not only have an M.Ed in Applied Digital Learning you will have a(an):

• Innovation plan & implementation strategy
• Organizational change strategy
• Learning environment
• Instructional design/backward design experience
• Measurement strategy
• Online/blended course
• Paper/Article/Conference presentation
• Professional development/learning strategy
• ePortfolio
• Expanded and new personal learning networks (PLNs)
• M. Ed. degree
• Change in thinking about learning, a change in your learning approach, and a change in your learning environment that leads to a reignited Learner’s Mindset

We have created a significant learning environment in the ADL program in which we give the learner choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities. ADL learners will:

• Adopt a self-directed approach to learning and utilizing technologies in digital learning environments.
• Create an ePortfolio to organize, communicate and promote digital learning and leading.
• Embrace technological innovations as an opportunity rather than challenges.
• Proactively use technological innovation as catalysts to enhance learning environments.
• Develop the leadership qualities necessary to foster learning innovation.
• Develop appropriate strategies to lead organizational change.
• Manage resistance to change and conflict that occurs when launching innovative digital learning initiatives in educational environments.
• Engage in and manage crucial conversations
• Create significant learning environments.
• Assess, implement, and promote inquiry-based theories and methods to enhance digital learning and leading.
• Distinguish learner-centered instructional methods from teacher-centered methods and identify technologies that support each method
• Construct and align learning objectives, assessment items, and learning activities based on expected outcomes for digital learners.
• Promote the learning and growth mindset within the learning environment and the organization.
• Identify, investigate and assess contemporary issues relevant to digital learning.
• Measure the effectiveness of digital innovation strategies.
• Design and create effective online or blended learning environments.
• Promote digital citizenship and literacy as it relates to their professional practice.
• Design and model authentic professional development activities that are active, have a significant duration and are specific to their discipline.
• Synthesize the knowledge, skills, and values gained from the program and promote the use of choice, ownership, voice and authentic digital learning within their organizations.

ADL links:
Applied Digital Learning
DLL Evolves to ADL
CSLE+COVA
ADL Why & Principles
Assessment OF/FOR/AS Learning
ADL Program Map
What You Get From the ADL
How to Succeed in the ADL
ADL Course Goals
ADL Tips & Perspectives

Revised on August 16, 2021

Before you examine what you get from the ADL program it is important to understand that the ADL is designed with and uses constructivist principles that make it different from traditional programs. We believe that it is important to more than talk the constructivist talk and actually walk the constructivist walk? The Applied Digital Learning program at Lamar University is not only based on constructivist principles we model and apply these principles. In the ADL program, we have moved beyond the rhetoric by a creating significant learning environment (CSLE) in which we give learners choice, ownership, and voice through authentic learning opportunities (COVA).

To better understand the CSLE+COVA vs Traditional table comparisons in the video please take a few moments to review the full tables and explanations found at:

CSLE vs Traditional
COVA vs Traditional
CSLE+COVA Mindset vs Traditional

ADL links:
Applied Digital Learning
DLL Evolves to ADL
CSLE+COVA
ADL Why & Principles
Assessment OF/FOR/AS Learning
ADL Program Map
What You Get From the ADL
How to Succeed in the ADL
ADL Course Goals
ADL Tips & Perspectives

Revised on Dec 12, 2022