Course Content

This cycle is two weeks long. As usual, there are several assignments:

Here are the reading assignments:

• Media’s Effect on Instructional Design (McLuhan) Answer the questions.
• Lesson/Readings on Designing a Meaningful User Experience – Nathan Shedroff Answer the questions.
• The Clark – Kozma Debate (known as the Great Debate). Take a side, defend your position.

This cycle is two weeks long. There are three assignments: One new reflection and a short activity, and a consolidated discussion from the reflections from last cycle.

• Peer Reviews/Discussions(2):

  You have been randomly assigned six classmates to post your responses/notes regarding the two reflections from last week (Curriculum Theory and the Martin Clemente Article). Your postings should be a composite of the impressions you had about their reflections. The intent is to generate some lively conversation.

The new readings and assignments activities are due at the end of the cycle

• Reflection (1) and Activity (1):

  Read the Lesson on elearning.

  1. Part 1: Reflection – As you read, write down six advantages/disadvantages for using online versus face to face learning and determine their impact on course design.
  2. Part 2: (Hypothetical) Design Document – As an instructional designer, you have been charged with taking a face to face course and converting it to a fully online or hybrid delivery. Using your top ten list, create a chart that informs the decisions you would make for an instructional design document to complete this hypothetical project. You should include some considerations and the impact of your decisions that are based on a hypothetical needs analysis that you also create.

     Post this in the text area in the Drop Box in Canvas.

For this course, all cycle due dates fall onMondays unless otherwise noted in the calendar.

THIS CYCLE IS ONLY ONE WEEK LONG, SO PLEASE DO NOT PROCRASTINATE.

There are four assignments. The readings might take you most of the time:

• Review the Syllabus for this course.
• Review the course introduction to become acquainted with this content site and its relationship to Canvas. Then confirm reviewing the syllabus and introduction materials using the ‘quiz’/survey set up on Canvas so the points can be posted to your grade book.

Write a reflection on this cycle’s links and readings.
A Drop Box has been set up in Canvas for you to reflect (under the Assignments Menu tab). TO HELP SAVE TIME FOR OTHERS TO VIEW YOUR POST, PLEASE ENTER YOUR RESPONSES IN TEXT AREA PROVIDED. YOU CAN USE A WORD PROCESSOR TO FORMAT IT, BUT COPY AND PASTE THE RESPONSES IN THE TEXT AREA RATHER THAN USING AN ATTACHMENT.

Next cycle, you will be asked to peer review six others reflections and comment on them.

On Canvas we have posted a rubric we will be using to evaluate your postings. In addition, we have also provided en exemplar good posting to give you an idea as to the level of detail we are expecting

IN ORDER FOR YOU TO SEE WHERE WE ARE GOING, IT IS ALWAYS GOOD TO SEE THE FINAL PRODUCT. SO HERE IS A LINK TO THE FINAL PROJECT FOR THIS COURSE.