e_Learning Content Development Projects

Asst.Prof.Dr.Surasak Mungsing

E-learning Content Design is the heart and soul of any e-learning development process.

E-Learning Content Development Process

Analyzing what is required for the curriculum, including learners’ entry behaviors, learning needs, and the instructional settings, etc.

Designing the instructional system to meet the learning objectives of the curriculum. (Clark, 2000)

Developing the curriculum by means of activities that will assist the students to accomplish a learning task and using appropriate deliveries, such as tapes, handouts.

Implementing a management plan for conducting the training. (Clark, 2000)

Evaluating each phase (analyze, design, develop, implement) to ensure it is accomplishing what it is supposed to. (Clark, 2000)

ADDIE instructional framework

Who: seniorWhat: Learning English via a Trip to NYWhich: acquire the ability to take an individual trip abroad When: 981, 2 classes/18 weeksWhere: C101 computer classroomHow: presentation of information, self- evaluation, online assignments, online announcements, grouping, online discussion, online survey.

Because the students are seniors, they aregoing to graduate from the university in aFew months and their life will open to a newPage soon. After administered an onlinesurvey, they expressed highly interest intourism. Among all the destinations, NewYork is their priority. As to their Computer literacy, they have the basic skills.

Learning styles: (1)visual (2) auditory (3) kinesthetic (4) tactileLearning strategies: cognitive, meta- cognitive, socio-affectiveExpectation : Besides being interested in

learning something about tourism, what the students concern is that they can pass this course in order to graduate in June this year.

Learning objectives (ABCD)Goals: instructional theories (behaviorism, cognition & constructivism)

Teaching strategies: activities, study sheets, leading students’ in-depth discussionInterface: related graphics, audio, visual aids

AAudience◦ Audience, Who are your Students?

BBehavior◦ Behavior to be demonstrated

CCondition◦ Conditions under which the behavior will be

observed Degree

◦ Degree to which the learned skills are to be mastered

Repeated exposure to the same material isbeneficial or even essential to learning

A computer is ideal for carrying out repeateddrills, since the machine does not get bored with presenting the same material and since

it can provide immediate non-judgmental feedback. (Warschauer, 1996)

Constructivism, a social philosophy, is based on the beliefs that:

1. knowledge is actively constructed by learners and not passively received,2. cognition is an adaptive process that organizes the learner’s experiential world, 3. all knowledge is socially constructed. (Richards & Schmidt, 2002, p.113)

The ZPD is “the gap between what a learner can accomplish independently and what a learner cannot do, even with assistance.” (Berger, 2007)

Scaffolding is “actually a bridge used to bui ld upon what students already know to arri ve at something they do not know.” (Lipsc

omb, L., Swanson, J., West, A., 2004) It is gradual. It starts at an implicit level,

and progressively becomes more specific. It should be offered only when it is needed, and removed as soon as the learner can self-control himself.

Online discussionOnline communityGroupingSynchronous conferenceAsynchronous discussionE-mail

interface design 1. Break up text into organized chunks 2. keep text lines short 3. use graphics to show relationships 4. use high-quality audio and video (Peterson, 1998, pp.121-122)

Application: translate, apply, use, shop, demonstrate, practice, operate…Analysis: analyze, appraise, calculate, compare, contrast, criticize… Synthesis: arrange, collect, assemble, create, design, organize, planEvaluation: appraise, argue, assess, choose, compare, estimate, evaluate, judge

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＊ Use the softwares--Articulate Presenter, powercam and Hotpotatoes--to develop the materials.

＊ Adopt TOEIC test banks of Justtalk and LiveABC to evaluate Students’ progress.

＊ Integrate the materials of LiveABC and related links into the web-based course.

＊ Interact with partners via online discussion.

1 reaction: students’ reaction towards the course. 2 learning: the progress students’ have made after the training 3 behavior: the change of students’ learning habits 4 result: the effects resulting from the trainee's performance http://www.businessballs.com/kirkpatricklearningevalu

ationmodel.htm

Formative evaluation: present in each stage of the ADDIE process

Summative evaluation: consists of tests designed for criterion-related referenced items and provides opportunities for feedback from the users. (Robert, 2008)

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