Day 1 - Topics
- General Overview of Course
- Objectives
- What do you already know about instructional design models?
- What do you want to know about instructional design models?
- Distance Education Overview
- Separation of educator and learner
- Separation of time and space
- Different types of distance education - virtual schools, corporate schools, government uses, higher education
- General Resources for Distance Education
- Distance Education vs. Face-to-Face Education
- Distance Learning
- Few visual cues
- Different learning environments among students
- Use technology for interaction
- Independent learners
- Instructors a facilitators and supporters of knowledge
- Face-to-Face Learning
- Visual cues exchanged
- Same learning environment among students
- Interact in person
- Instructor-directed learners
- Instructor as content provider and teacher of knowledge
- Design Theories
- ADDIE Model
- Step-by-step process where one piece feeds into the next
- Not systemic or dynamic
- Virtual Dynamic Instructional and Learning Systems (VDILS) Model
- Used to design learning systems that change according to learner's needs (Saba, 2008)
- Learner interacts with virtual or real environment (Saba, 2008)
- Systems Thoery
- Holistic approach instead of cause-effect relationship (Saba 2007, 20)
- Consists of primary components - teaching, learning, program/course design, technology, management, policy, and organization, and a definition of the relationship of these components with larger education system (Saba 2007, 28)
- Analysis
- Purpose - to figure out the problem and the causes of a problem
- Types of Analysis
- Performance Analysis - what is the performance problem and what are the causes for that performance problem
- Audience Analysis - who are your learners
- Task Analysis - what are the steps necessary to perform the optimal function
- Content Analysis - what knowledge does the optimal performer have that everyone else needs to know
- Ways to conduct analysis
- Interview
- Observation
- Survey
- Review data
- Round-table discussion
- Analysis resources
Day 1 - Assignments
- Read Distance Education and eLearning: A Brief Introduction article and post to discussion forum about 3 interesting facts you did not already know about distance education. – Due Day 2
- Choose topic for distance course and conduct a mini-analysis using a brief survey. – Due Day 2
- Pick a topic for your course
- Determine your audience for this course
- Do a mini-analysis using a simple survey to determine the need for the course
- Write a brief description of your mini-analysis and post it to the discussion forum.
- Answer the following questions in your discussion forum post:
- What types of questions did you include in your survey?
- How many people took your survey?
- What did you find out from your mini-analysis?
- How can you use this information to help design your course?