best practices in course development and instructional design jonan donaldson august 23, 2012
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Best Practices in Course Development and Instructional Design
Jonan DonaldsonAugust 23, 2012
Online Course D
esign
Overview
“One must learn by doing the thing, for though you think you know it, you have no certainty until you try. We learn by doing.” - Aristotle
Principle: Sense of Community
“An impressive collection of studies has shown that participation in well-functioning cooperative groups leads students to feel more positive about themselves, about each other, and about the subject they're studying. Students also learn more effectively on a variety of measures” – Alfie Kohn
Principle: Sense of Community
Student-Teacher Interaction
Principle: Sense of Community
Student-Student Interaction
Principle: Sense of Community
Prompt feedback
Principle: Begin with the End in Mind
“The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.” – Stephen Covey
Principle: Begin with the End in Mind
Course-level Learning Outcomes
Principle: Begin with the End in Mind
Unit-level Objectives
Principle: Multiple Pathways of Learning
“The brain has evolved over millions of years to be responsive to different kinds of content in the world. Language content, musical content, spatial content, numerical content, etc.” – Howard Gardner
Principle: Multiple Pathways of LearningText, Graphics, Audio, and Video
Principle: Engage Students at Higher-order Thinking
“The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery.” – Mark Van Doren
Principle: Engage Students at Higher-order Thinking
Blooms Taxonomy
CreateEvaluate
Analyze
ApplyUnderstand - Describe,
ExplainKnowledge - Remember
Principle: Authentic Assessment
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to think” – John Dewey
“The principal goal of education is to create men who are capable of doing new things, not simply of repeating what other generations have done.” – Jean Piaget
Principle: Authentic Assessment
Variety of Assessment Methods
Principle: Authentic Assessment
Minimize High-stakes Assessments
Principle: Authentic Assessment
Alternatives to Tests
Principle: Authentic Assessment
Use Rubrics Whenever Possible
Principle: Authentic Assessment
Regularity of Due Dates
Principle: Clarity of Process
“Organizing is what you do before you do something, so that when you do it, it is not all mixed up.” – A. A. Milne
Principle: Clarity of ProcessNavigation
Principle: Clarity of ProcessRoutine/Organization
Principle: Clarity of ProcessWeekly Overviews
Principle: Student Autonomy
“A teacher is one who makes himself progressively unnecessary.” – Thomas Carruthers
Principle: Student AutonomyIndividualization in Activities
Principle: Student AutonomyMultiple options for Activities and Assessments
Principle: Student AutonomySelf- and Peer-grading
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
“Design is about choices and intentions, it is not accidental. Design is about process. The end user will usually not notice ‘the design of it.’ It may seem like it just works, assuming they think about it at all, but this ease-of-use (or ease-of-understanding) is not by accident, it’s a result of your careful choices and decisions.” – Garr Reynolds
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
If it can be embedded, it should be embedded.
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
Order of power: Video-Image-Audio-Text
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
Content Blocking
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
Contrast
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
FontsDesign professionals such as Robin Williams and Garr Reynolds argue that any design should contain no more than two fonts. Furthermore, those fonts should be of contrasting type. For example, if your primary font is a serif font (has those little hats and feet), your secondary font should be a sans serif font (without those little hats and feet). Using an Ariel font with a Calibri front causes discomfort for the reader because both are sans serif fonts. The same is true if you use a Times New Roman font with a Book Antiqua font because both are serif fonts.
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
Alignment
Principle: Online Presentation Design Principles
Color
Conclusion
“It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
Best Practices in Course Development and Instructional Design
Jonan Donaldson
Online Course D
esign