Effective Course Design Moderator Lisa Marie Johnson Ashford University (CA) Presenters Ruth Markulis University of Maryland University College (MD) Michael Samman Berkeley College (NY) The leap from the traditional classroom to the online world can still be disorienting for many teachers and students. In this session our panelists will demonstrate how employing best practices and instructional design theory can prepare faculty to design online courses that take into account the challenges students face in succeeding in a dynamic online-learning environment. The presentation will provide tips on effective project management, determining learning objectives, working with design teams, and transforming static instructional content into interactive, dynamic, and engaging learning experiences that challenge learners.
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Effective Course DesignModerator
Lisa Marie JohnsonAshford University (CA)
PresentersRuth Markulis
University of Maryland University College (MD)
Michael SammanBerkeley College (NY)
The leap from the traditional classroom to the online world can still be disorienting for many teachers and students. In this session our panelists will demonstrate how employing best practices and instructional design theory can prepare faculty to design online courses that take into account the challenges students face in succeeding in a dynamic online-learning environment. The presentation will provide tips on effective project management, determining learning objectives, working with design teams, and transforming static instructional content into interactive, dynamic, and engaging learning experiences that challenge learners.
Ruth MarkulisInstructional Technologist
Center for Teaching and LearningOffice of Instructional Services and SupportUniversity of Maryland University College
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MS Cybersecurity Program
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Managing Complexity
• Curriculum– Interactive Modules– Case Studies and Virtual Labs– Capstone Simulation
• University-wide effort of collaborative teams
• Integrate efforts from many disciplines and skill sets
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Strategies That Worked Well
• Weekly Excel Project Plan Tracking Sheets
– Staffing, Tasks, and Due Dates– Completed Items– Pending Items– Yellow and Red Alerts
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Strategies That Worked Well
• Weekly Project Status Reports and Meetings
– Delayed Tasks and Milestones and Impacts– Accomplishments– Pending Items– Concerns and Recommended Actions– Remarks
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Effective Project ManagementStrategies That Worked Well
• Making all assumptions explicit
• Explaining dependencies
• Flexibility
– Adding or realigning resources and contingency plans• Sharepoint as document repository
– Version Control/Archive
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Strategies That Worked Well
• Details!
– Include a deadline in the subject line of emails for time-sensitive materials• Urgent-Please respond by date
– Include vacation schedules, holidays
– Scheduled check in conference calls
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Instructional Design Model
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The Process
Approved Curriculum
Preliminary Module Plans
Story Board Phase
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The Process
Production Phase-Alpha, Beta, Gold
Quality Control-Feedback Loops
Change Management Database
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Subject Matter Expert Support
Strategies That Worked Well• Subject Matter Expert Training Workshop– Policies and Procedures/Roles Expectations– Research and Writing– Unique, Accurate Master’s Level Content– Case Study and Simulation Ideas for Critical Thinking– Best Practices and Current Thinking in the Field– Quality Assurance
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Review Teams
Strategies That Worked Well
• “Bug Sheets”– Content, Graphics, Technical
• Active Discussion in Wimba/WebEx
• Lead SME has final word
• Requested changes/clarifications
• Continuous quality improvement
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Review Teams
Strategies That Worked Well
• Initially a long process
• Became streamlined
• Led to proactive change in design/process– Moved editorial review and intellectual property review earlier
in process
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Tools for Interactivity
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Tools for Interactivity
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Tools for Interactivity
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Tools for Interactivity
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Faculty Support
Strategies That Worked Well
• Model classroom
• Orientation each semester
• Faculty classroom for discussion/questions
• Ongoing meetings as needed
• Teaching/lab assistants
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Going Mobile-Best Practices
Has your campus experimented with mobile devices to deliver content?
Please share your experiences.
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• Feature Phones12 keys, digital camera, media player
• Smart PhonesThird party applications for productivity
• PDAsQWERTY keyboard and stylus for organizational tasks
• iPadsMore features for light work, presentations, interactive learning
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How many mobile devices are there worldwide?
What impact is this having on educational institutions?
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Gartner Group 2011
• 5.6 billion mobile phones worldwide • 80% of world’s population• $315 billion in revenue
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The State of the Mobile Web in Higher Ed February 2012 (267 institutions)
– 59% provide a mobile solution (37% in 2011)– 39% plan to develop a mobile solution– 2% no plan
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Stand-alone apps to download
Mobile optimized version of Web Site
Augmented reality
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The State of the Mobile Web in Higher Ed February 2012 (267 institutions)
– 56% plan a dedicated mobile Web site– 26% plan to develop device-specific apps
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The State of the Mobile Web in Higher Ed February 2012 (267 institutions)
– 73 % developed by faculty staff– 20% developed by vendor– 65% no special budget for mobile
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Develop a Mobile Strategy• Why are you going mobile?
• Determining appropriate content
• Interactivity-solving a real problem– Checking sports scores– Checking weather, directions, maps– Flight reservations– News updates
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Develop a Mobile Strategy
• Balance business goals vs. constraints
• How does mobile presence help organization achieve its goals?
• Audience goals-What does user want to accomplish? What is the value-added proposition?
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Develop a Mobile Strategy
What do you think would be appropriate educational content for mobile devices based
on these commercial applications?
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Good Mobile Design• Designing for mobile devices is different than
designing for the Web
• Don’t take an existing Web page and make it smaller
• Limit content and plan content categories and navigation carefully
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Primary Navigation
Menu Content
Footer
Header
Navigation
Content
Navigation
Footer
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Going Mobile-Best PracticesDesign Challenges or Constraints
• Variety of devices and browsers
• Older devices
• Screen size and keypad design
• Embedded objects and scripts not supported
• Frames not supported
• Flash not supported
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Design Challenges or Constraints
• Pop-up windows not supported
• Linking to external resources adds time and cost to page views
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Good Mobile Design• Must be device specific– Target devices
• Must render properly– 128 X 160 pixels
• Must load quickly
• Must not crash the browser
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Good Mobile Design• File sizes are small, under 10 Kb
• Customization– Site should remember user information and
preferences and load them when user returns to site
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Good Mobile Design• Handset detection-serving correct version of mobile
content– http://deviceatlas.com
• Dynamic content formatting
• URL redirects
• Register domain names
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Developing Standards• W3C Initiatives– Mobile Web Best Practices Working Group– Device Description Working Group• Consistent, complete User-Agent Profiles (UA-Profs)
• Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
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W3C Mobile Web Working Group
• XHTML Basic and XHTML MP 1.0– Character Encoding-UTF 8– XHTML MP 1.0 Doctype-tells browsers how to
render content– List of MIME types on server-add XHTML
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W3C Mobile Web Working Group
• XHTML Basic and XHTML MP 1.0– Search engines use page titles– Wireless CSS stylesheets lower page size
• Use Wireless Markup Language (WML) for older mobile browsers
• HTML 5 and Java
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Going Mobile-Best PracticesDesign Considerations
• Use <div> or <dl> tags, not <table>
• Use server side includes (SSI), not frames
• Place navigation in content page
• Use accesskeys (numbers on keypad) to link to content and limit links to 10 or fewer per page
• Prioritize links by popularity
• Use brief forms if at all– Use radio buttons and drop-down menus rather than text boxes
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Design Considerations for Images
• Image width should by under 120 pixels
• Avoid images containing dense information
• Specify pixel height and width so these do not have to be calculated by the device which increases rendering time
• Omit image maps as there usually is no pointing device
• Always use alt tags
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Testing• Prototyping and Usability Testing
• Desktop testing
• Emulator testing
• Device testing-Prepaid SIM cards– http://wurfl.sourceforge.net/– http://www.uaprof.com/– http://www.developershome.com/wap/detection/detection.asp?page=uaprof
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References and Resources
W3C Mobile Web Best Practices Basic Guidelines
– http://www.w3.org/TR/mobile-bp/
Global Authoring Practices
– http://www.passani.it/gap/
mobiReady Tool evaluates your Web page
– http://ready.mobi/launch.jsp?locale=en_EN
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Going Mobile-Best PracticesReferences and ResourcesDot-mobi domain approved by Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) in 2006
– http://news.cnet.com/2100-1039_3-6075779.html
Mobile Web Best Practices, Case Studies, and Statistics
– http://www.mobithinking.com/
Open Mobile Alliance– http://www.openmobilealliance.org/
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References and ResourcesHorizon Report 2012– http://www.nmc.org/pdf/2012-horizon-report-HE.pdf
Accessibility– http://www.w3.org/WAI/mobile/
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Michael SammanDirector, Online Faculty Support and Instructional Design
Berkeley College - New York / New [email protected]
973-278-5400 ext.1650
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Effective Course DesignModerator
Lisa Marie JohnsonAshford University (CA)
PresentersRuth Markulis
University of Maryland University College (MD)
Michael SammanBerkeley College (NY)
The leap from the traditional classroom to the online world can still be disorienting for many teachers and students. In this session our panelists will demonstrate how employing best practices and instructional design theory can prepare faculty to design online courses that take into account the challenges students face in succeeding in a dynamic online-learning environment. The presentation will provide tips on effective project management, determining learning objectives, working with design teams, and transforming static instructional content into interactive, dynamic, and engaging learning experiences that challenge learners.
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