Implenting Flexible Delivery
Evolution of distance education/model of delivery
See http://michael.coghlan.net/pd/eVET-pres.html (presentation created with Impatica); also see LearnScope for article: Delivering an Online Course
Project has 3 main phases:
Design (key questions: who are your clients? what are their skills? how do you motivate them? maintain their interest)
Issues/concepts:
- Instructional Design (ID)*
- Layout
- Look and Feel
- Graphic design
- Content v CMC (or content v process)
- Accessibility – colours, alt tags, screen readers; see http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/accessequity/guidelines/guidelines.htm, and an excellent tutorial at http://www.flexiblelearning.net.au/accessequity/everyone_online/index.php
- Softwares - mastery of, decisions on who uses
- Assessment tasks
- CMC: balance between synchronous and asynchronous approaches
- which media? see http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ch5.html
- How do you make
online content interactive? Two types of interaction:
- HCI – human computer interaction (quizzes, drag and drop eg Flash; mouse exercises; crosswords; quandaries (Quandary is an excellent free online tool. See examples.)
- CMC – human to
human (chat, forum, Instant Messengers, virtual classrooms, incl.
voice interactions); roleplay (Fablusi);
simulations
Publishing (generally not the designer or teacher's task)
- Uploading > server (WebCT)
- FTP (file transfer protocol)
Delivery
- what are the technological limitations? (organisational and individual)
- CMC – emoderation/efacilitation; developing an ‘electronic personality’; Tips: use humour; be open
- ensure online facilitators are totally familiar/comfortable with online medium and employed software (eg WebCT, Talking Communities etc); ideally, all online facilitators will have some experience as an online student
Ideal Team for designing and assembling content consists of
- content expert
- graphic designer
- instructional designer
Where to from here?
- three online meetings (using voice tools)
- regular and continuous reflection (possibly via project blog at http://materls.blogspot.com/; log in at http://blogger.com/); suggest that each team member tries to do this at least once a fortnight
- team members can also contribute a monthly posting in the AFLC discussion area; perhaps on a rotating basis - could someone make up a roster? AFLC
Other Resources
Online Book: Theory and Practice of Online Learning
http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/; see esp chapter 2; section 3: http://cde.athabascau.ca/online_book/ch2.html#three
* ADDIE Model of Instructional Design
Analysis --> Design --> Development --> Implementation --> Evaluation
http://www.willamette.edu/~jmeyerto/ADDIE.htm
Synchronous Interaction
see http://michael.coghlan.net/synch/surv_discuss.htm
Tool Available for Synchronous Voice Interactions available HERE
See Hot Potatoes for crosswords and easy to make quiz tools (example crossword)
For readings on a range of issues see Michael's page at http://michael.coghlan.net/articlesetal.htm
