tailieunhanh - A Designer’s Log Case Studies in Instructional Design- P8

A Designer’s Log Case Studies in Instructional Design- P8:This book deals with the design of distance education at an emerging dual-mode university, that is, a university offering courses both on-campus and via distance education or online in a variety of manners. It was written from the point of view of an instructional designer (ID) working alongside university professors in designing their courses for distance delivery | then decided to attribute the remaining 25 percent to participation in team exercises to be completed in the online discussion forum between weekly sessions. Since the time available to us was relatively short we contented ourselves with identifying RCEs that would be marked some were being used only for formative evaluation and checking the level of congruency between the specific objectives and the questions. Having established a functional modus operandi the professor once again said he was willing to complete this work between our sessions. As we design his course and more specifically write his course objectives we begin examining his mid-term and final exams to check the level of congruency between his objectives and exam items. This allows us to identify objectives which had apparently gotten lost in some of the units modules but considering their weight in the exams had to be identified in the syllabus. This kind of study of the correlation between exam items and course objectives constitutes a good example of reverse engineering in design a useful technique in cases where it is difficult to identify the objectives a faculty member actually wishes to set or in cases where the professor is not inclined to invest much time in writing them. One difficulty the professor experienced during this fine-tuning session was differentiating between specific objectives and exam items. I turned to Dick Carey 2000 and to Morissette 1984 to explain the difference. I realize that a short workshop on writing objectives and exam items delivered using educational software would probably be quite useful to professors working autonomously. NB. The most recent version of Dick Carey came out in 2007. Session 7 Our last working session dealt with the issue of access to resources. We were faced with a decision either allow learners to simply download the course materials posted on the site case studies texts RCEs etc. or limit their access by allowing them viewing and printing .