Educational Psychology is a branch of psychology dealing with the application of psychological principles and theories to a broad spectrum of teaching, training, and learning issues in educational settings. Educational psychology also addresses psychological problems that can arise in educational systems. They are focused on identifying and studying learning methods to better understand how people absorb and retain new information. Educational psychologists apply theories of human development to understand individual learning and inform the instructional process. While interaction with teachers and students in school settings is an important part of their work, it isn’t the only facet of the job. Learning is a lifelong endeavor. People don’t only learn at school, they learn at work, in social situations, and even doing simple tasks like household chores or running errands. Psychologists working in this subfield examine how people learn in a variety of settings to identify approaches and strategies to make learning more effective.
This course as a specialized elective course will introduce students to the dynamics of human learning in the context of managing it effectively. The objective of the course is to orient the learners about the basic concepts of educational Psychology and develop their basic skills in the field. It will introduce the students the contemporary educational psychology theoretical approaches, learner differences, and their learning needs of diverse populations, the techniques to create an effective learning environment, and designing high-quality evaluation and assessments. The course will act as a foundation course for those students interested to take up higher studies in the area of educational psychology.
This course is offering in a self study mode.
- Teacher: COE CVV
- Teacher: Sreeja Gangadharan P