Design
DESIGN for Learning
As you design your online course, you will:
- photos
- graphics
- print-based and Internet-based references
- multimedia clips
- Animations/simulations to reinforce difficult topics
- Instructor videos/podcasts to guide students through difficult projects
- In addition to the knowledge content that will be delivered to the students, identify the eLearning components will you incorporate to facilitate the learning process and engage your students, such as:
- assessments that may include student self-evaluations, quizzes, exercises, and exams
- course communication opportunities including online meetings in Elluminate, group discussion, chat, e-mail
- the eLearning gradebook to track student progress
- Divide content materials into sessions/modules/units as you feel appropriate for your course
- Create course structure by mapping out the organization of the content and relationships between individual sessions/modules/units.
- Now that you have determined your course goals and student learning outcomes, what instructional strategies will you employ to enable students to reach those objectives?
- ATC instructional designers subscribe to Robert Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction as a model for designing effective online courses.
- Introduction
- Gain attention
- Inform the learner of objectives
- Recall prior learning
- Content Presentation
- Present the content
- Provide learning guidance
- Elicit Performance
- Provide Feedback
- Post Instruction
- Assess performance
- Enhance retention and transfer
- Introduction
- ATC instructional designers subscribe to Robert Gagne's Nine Events of Instruction as a model for designing effective online courses.
- As you design your instructional strategies, ask yourself questions like:
- Are my instructions clear?
- How will my students interact with each other?
- How will I interact with my students?
- How will my students interact with the content?
- How will I know when my students succeed?
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