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Your thesis is an opportunity to integrate your prior experiences with what you have learned in your program's curriculum, toward a project of personal and professional interest. As a culminating project, your thesis should demonstrate creativity and rigor in theory and practice, and an understanding of current and future trends in educational technology and media design for learning, whether your focus is on the design of a learning experience or technology, a theoretical investigation, or an empirical research study.
Your thesis may be a completely new idea, or a major expansion of a prior course project. You may choose to work independently, or in collaboration with others within or outside of your program.
The thesis process
The thesis process
Semester 1: Exploring and defining
Semester 1: Exploring and defining
In the first semester of your thesis, you will explore questions such as: What is your passion? What issues, trends, and opportunities to improve learning are personally meaningful to you? What are your professional goals? The focus of 1st semester is on researching, defining, and proposing a project (e.g., an initial understanding of "the" problem, early design prototype, thesis paper outline, research plan). Your work in the 1st semester is to lay a foundation based on theory and evidence.
Semester 2: Refining and developing
Semester 2: Refining and developing
In the second semester of your thesis, you will focus on further refining and developing your ideas from the 1st semester into a project that presents the culmination of your work in the LTXD or G4L program.
If you are doing a design project, you will continue to develop, evaluate, and iterate on your design. If you are doing a research paper, you will collect and analyze data and write up your findings. If you are doing a scholarly paper, you will continue researching and writing.
The last few weeks of the 2nd semester will be focused on creating a presentation of your work in preparation for the ECT Design EXPO, one that will serve as a portfolio piece and resume builder, but that will also foster dialogue with a larger community.
The second semester of the thesis class has a flexible structure to reflect the diversity of individual students' projects.
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