Instructional Design and Development

September 18th, 2007

Today's Agenda:
1. Dr. Schaffer's lecture on Assessment (w/ Smith & Ragan, Dr. Schaffer's Powerpoint slides)
2. ArtSmart Discussions to Form Teams and Their Responsibilities (and Timeline): first just among classmates and after that w/ Dr. Schaffer.

In this blog, I will mainly talk about #2.

Although I was not involved in this EDCI 572 assignments, blogging about 'teaming' seemed to have been well reflected by the class (See Blackboard 'discussion'). Dr. Schaffer commented that for assessment of teaming, there are two things that you can do: observation and reflection (self-assessment).

Regarding the ID assignments for Climate Chage, Dr. Schaffer said it is good to create objectives based on what we have. (They did not really have objectives.) Keep that in mind that we need congruency among Goal, Task, and Assessment.

During our (without Dr. Schaffer) discussion, we decide there will be two teams: Instructional Design Team and Development Team. But we needed to ask Dr. Schaffer to help us decide how much work we should put on the development part since this course's topic is instructional design.

Dr. Schaffer basically said our ID will have to be really cohesive and well done. It is not a good idea to have a product that is visually really beautiful or attractive but is sparce with no coherent ID in it.

I think Dr. Schaffer said ID Model does not assume delivery. But it is true that compared to last year, this project is much more real this year.

2 Teams are:
1) Instructional Design (ID): 2 complete activities/lessons (for teachers and students)
2) Design Prototypes (Development):
-Prototype of website
-Technologies (ASP, PHP, dB)
-Research Design(s) based on characteristics of learners (teachers and students)

Dr. Schaffer said that this is already EDCI 561 discussions (beyond 572). He said there are no set answers for this question. Development team will also have to really know ID aspects.

The above discussions are all important for 'service-learning design.' I really have to decide my research questions are for my EDCI 590 paper. I need to consult Professor Schaffer soon.

Shigetake