eLearning 2009 Conference presentation with Greg Kaminski & Beth Hale

1. Avoiding Shovelware

2. Innovative Strategies toward Improving Online Course Quality Instructional Designer, Susan J. Clark, PhD Designing for Quality

3. What is Quality?

6. Biggest factor in design quality

7. Typical Time Allotment Activity Time Meet with the Instructional Designer to plan the design of the course or project and to discuss training needs. 2 hrs Develop course objectives, syllabus, and introduction 5 hrs Locate and obtain permission to use resources 5 hrs Plan media production 1 hr Develop content 8 hrs Create Course Shell 1 hr Assemble and organize content into CMS 4 hrs Test course 2 hrs Revise as needed. 2 hrs Additional Activities 0 Total 30 hrs

12. How do you design for alignment?

14. Alignment Worksheet Example http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dggvhhw6_80g6n54chk Learning Objectives Learning Activities Assessment Materials Media Where are students going? What will the students do to get there? How will you know when they get there? What will help the students get there?

15. Design for Learner Engagement

17. SmartPen™ Example

19. Design for Accessibility (Universal Usability) Universal Design is the "design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design" (Center for Universal Design, North Carolina State University). Universal Design for Instruction (UDI) is the application of this construct to college teaching.

20. Readability Example

21. Rules of Thumb

22. Use contrast.

24. Use a clean font style. This is plain text.

27. Use white space.

28. Use alt tags. <img src=&quot;filename.gif&quot; alt=&quot;Alternative description goes here&quot; >

29. No-no’s

31. Innovative Strategies toward Improving Online Course Quality Learning Technologies Facilitator Beth Hale Reviewing for Course Readiness

36. SECTION #1 :: COURSE ORIENTATION & DESIGN The overall design of the course, navigational information, as well as course, instructor and student information are made transparent to the student at the beginning of the course Criteria Y / N Comments

37. SECTION #2 :: COMMUNICATION The effective design of instructor-learner interaction, meaningful learner cooperation, and learner-content interaction is essential to learner motivation, intellectual commitment and personal development. Criteria Y / N Comments

38. SECTION #3 :: ASSESSMENT Assessment strategies use established ways to measure effective learning, assess learner progress by reference to stated learning objectives, and are designed as essential to the learning process. Criteria Y / N Comments

39. SECTION #4 :: CONTENT PRESENTATION Instructional materials are designed to be sufficiently comprehensive to achieve announced objectives and learning outcomes and are prepared by qualified persons competent in their fields (Materials, other than standard textbooks produced by recognized publishers, are prepared by the instructor or distance educators skilled in preparing materials for distance learning.) Criteria Y / N Comments

40. Innovative Strategies toward Improving Online Course Quality Instructional Computing Facilitator Greg Kaminski PCC- The Journey

51. Questions

52. Have Fun!

53. Slideshow URL