Instructional Design Services

Relocated to deids.on.uvu.edu

jaredstein — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:05:15 +0000

I’ve relocated the UVU Instructional Design Services blog to http://deids.on.uvu.edu

August 2009 Milestones

jaredstein — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:56:09 +0000

This is the first of a series of posts that will provide short and partial lisst of accomplishments of IDS for August 2009:

Completed new course development (4 new courses, 3 redesigns, 3 epacks)
Assisted faculty in prep for new semester
Jared participated in Open Ed conference
Supported faculty convocation with Jared’s “Blogging in Education” workshops
Hired 2 new PT student developers
Listed 2 FT ID positions

If you have something to add to this, please post a comment below.

Directors mtg 8/3/2009

jaredstein — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:39:23 +0000

Sent dev comp to Bob & Kathy
Recompile ID positions
Disted web site
HLTH 1100, MGMT 3430, DENT 3200
Anton wants IDS to brainstorm and evaluate his LCT stuff
Katy & Kevin training

Jared’s TA to Open Ed conference?
New respondus installation password
Prox key _should_ be working

Directors mtg 7/27/2009

jaredstein — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:44:24 +0000

Here’s what I reported at this morning’s Directors mtg:

student positions
ID positions q from Evelie (passed to John)
new course devs/redevs (LEGL 3000, INFO 1100, ENGL 1010, 2010)
ITR and travel (still waiting)
IDS Dev moved in
pcard audit DONE
bdays tomorrow at 2pm

IDS mtg 6/30/2009

jaredstein — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:42:18 +0000

Ken
Drivers Ed
Internship – career services
JPNS 1010
DistEd 1st priority (start with planning mtgs)
CTC

Janel
Getting content in
Courses up for 2nd block

Kevin
Not much for JPNS
Studying CSS, HTML
WordPress – talk to Jared about the project

Adam
TECH 3010 videos done
PolCon also on server
Doing JPNS stuff

RJ
Will be gone next week
DENT 3200 problems

JR
TECH 3700
Video update form

Jared
Follow up on courses for Fall
iTunes U follow-up
Web 2.0 mtgs
Draft new open ed policy proposal
Complete DENT review

Bb Vista: DE Dev LI Course Template

jaredstein — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:21:04 +0000

I set up a Blackboard Vista template for starting new online courses earlier this year. Today I added a new course template for LI courses.

This LI course template includes:

placeholder XHTML for the course banner image (just upload the image for the course)
a “course orientation” learning module with default links (just upload the syllabus, schedule, other .html files)
a “general q & a” discussion forum
link to basic tools like Mail

This template can be applied to a new course by searching for “DE Dev – LI Course Template”.

IDS mtg – 06-23-09

jaredstein — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 15:41:12 +0000

JR
podcasting
ready to work on podcast metadata form (with Jared, RJ, or Ken)

Ken
JPNS
Drawing tool

Travis
budget for TTIX — need to pass it on to Jared
finish budget for DC

Janel
Rolling second block summer courses
We need special LI template (Jared)

Adam
wrapping up projects
Pol Con ready to upload

Shaline
Working with marc on stuff
updates

Jared
Lori has asked John to have staff work 8-5 M-F. IDS staff may have slightly differing schedules if approved.
New blog address here on wordpress.com (Blogger is dumb)
No word on when we will move into AB bldg. Possibly have access next week, and will plan space accordingly
Network drive – clear past employees personal
Run .bat, delete all ZIP and BAK

Directors mtg 6/22/2009

jaredstein — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:38:00 +0000

Here’s what I reported on at this week’s directors mtg:

- New summer schedule
- Conference notes passing on
- Fall courses
- Budget stuff?

Network drive
* Backups moved
* Network drive evaluated

? Proposed stipends for annual reviews
? Mo – blogging workshop – faculty blogging?
? who will be doing cross-listing, enrollments

Notes on eLearning DevCon 2009

jaredstein — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 15:09:00 +0000

I attended the 3-day eLearning DevCon 2009 in Salt Lake City this past week, and have compiled some brief notes based on the experience. I summarize the conference as having an enticing depth and knowledge of topics, good “presence” and information from most of the presenters, primarily for corporate e-learning developers (which was a refreshing change), not at all a bargain, and awkwardly spread out across Fort Douglas, though I must admit it was a joy to walk outside in late spring weather.

Instructional Design & Development

ADDIE, Dick & Cary, and other ID models useful to revisit and reflect upon, especially for planning of critical stages of course design. Models do not necessarily inhibit rapid prototyping. UVU IDS might rethink how its course design process fits into such models (instead of immediate prototyping do we first analyze needs, course objectives, then outline content in design? Prototyping should be mid to late design phase).

Build instructional design models into project mgmt software as template. We in UVU IDS do something like this with dotProject, but could more explicitly label phases to provide data documentation and data.

Log instructional patterns (e.g. activities, interactions, assessments) and create “templates”.

Brainstorming ideas: aim for quantity not quality (no negations), stock conference room with treats and toys, limit to 1 hr/break & flow, focus everyone on the task, use online shared docs.

In design phase, instead of lists of info, make visual representations like wireframes & site maps. Let it be basic, ugly.

Tame your use of media to reduce cognitive load (read Clark’s Efficiency in Design again).

Avoid novelty for novelty’s sake (bad example: wave runner game with multiple choice questions, our Frogger game).

Try rapid e-learning dev tools like Captivate, Articulate, and Rapid Intake, but beware of outputs that aren’t accessible, web standards format.

More often than not Flash is just flashy.

PowerPoint continues to be abused by presenters from around the world, resulting in mind-numbing, soul-sucking internments. Folks talk about PPT design in terms of how many bullets, words, fonts per slide, with nearly no mention of “Presentation Zen”.

Also, a PPT designed for a (classroom) presentation is not elearning, even if you convert that PPT to Flash with Captivate. @BrianDusablon says #1 problem in e-learning is PPT. (#2 is systems that put obstacles between learner and learning.)

However, you can use PPT as an effective e-learning prototyping platform, if not a complete and robust authoring platform.

Surprise! Corporate training wants demonstrable outcomes, not rubrics that assert generalized ideals of quality based on theory. How well do our distance learning “quality” rubrics (QM, Chico) measure the actual effectiveness of learning experiences at helping students meet learning objectives? Isn’t that more important than, say, the 7 principles?

Though the session was canceled, it appears possible to use Google Spreadsheets as a data source for live e-learning content generation (think flashcards, quizzes)

UVU IDS should create all lesson discussions, assignments, and assessments as plain text files WITHIN the lessons folder, until Common Cartridge XML becomes useful on Moodle and Bb Vista.

URLs from augmented reality games session: http://argology.org, http://argn.com, http://unfiction.com

Questions

Does UVU IDS have enough accurate dotProject data yet to estimate the hour-cost of a new online course?

Non-linear ID is still popular, but is it effective? Have we passed the point at which hypertext inhibits learning and focus?

Where are communities that share DTDs and schemas, esp for e-learning? Does our XML DTD match any other known e-learning DTDs? (Really only Common Cartridge)

Reading List

Goal-based learning design a la Robert Schank

Humanizing education articles

Videogames and Education: Humanistic Approaches to an Emergent Art Form by Harry J. Brown

Chico State’s latest vers. of ROI

Survey of Instructional Development Models by Kent L. Gustafson, Robert Maribe Branch

Any empirical research on linear vs. non-linear (hypertextual) learning outcomes

Software Demo List

Articulate (rapid e-learning development)

Captivate (rapid e-learning development)

ProForm / Unison (rapid e-learning development)

Jing (screen capture)

Agilix BrainHoney (LMS/learning system)

IDS mtg 6/19/2009

jaredstein — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:51:17 +0000

Travis
Postcards for Service Center
TTIX off-site – moderators should moderate in the backchannel
Budget numbers in today
Travis: what was your TTIX budget (resources and expenditures)?

RJ
PHP/MySQL script -
DENT course

Reminder: Make logs on dP

Scott
ART 1400 videos
TTIX backups
TTIX viewing room
Planning to avoid lost and broken equipment

Janel
Fall course development
?Developers -
Set appt w/ Jared: What we’re looking for and how we’re going to proceed

Kevin
JPNS 1010
PHP learning

JR
Working on TECH 3700, updates
Database backups

Tyrel
Only 24 hours left
Work until Friday then gone rest of month
MGMT 3430 X01 working with TA
Shadow files

Travis
Looking into Flash
We have streaming on old server
Desource for all downloads

Shaline
Course updates, ENGL 2300 transcripts
SOC 1010 Respondus updates

Jared
IDS semesterly meetings – Design Center
Planning: July or August
Postponed staff reviews to Monday
iTunes U : look template
CTC projects – bid
Web 2.0 strategies
I’ll email RJ a list to implement
Travis: what other video projects? Steve Fullmer ENGL 2300
Travis: what was your TTIX budget (resources and expenditures)?
Let Travis know when the UofU rooms are available
Online cheating discussion
Quality Matters
Syllabus quiz
Plagiarism/cheating quiz questions
Moving: plan is for July 1, but we have to wait on WDS
Jared budgeted for furniture, but don’t know if it will be approved