I really appreciate the
instructional material and the instructors of this program who presented everything
in a decent way. I think I’ll be ready to create my own course in few months.
The collaborative learning
is a key to human learning. So the interaction that takes place on Discussion
board plays an important role. The ideas those may never come my mind are
discussed here.
Many of the points
discussed in the lectures were new and I was really surprised to read ”How
people read online.” All these things added a new dimension to the way I
perceived my course before. Instructional design is such an important component
of any online or on-ground that it may lead students to either finish the
course successfully or drop in the middle. A few basic things related to the
design such as color choice, font selection, chunking information in digestible
parts, questions placement, using cues, explanatory text, and many more things
brought my attention to the fact that a course design is not simply putting
some text together along with few presentations and videos. It is much more
than that. As teachers we should redefine and redesign the teaching material such
that it does not overload the working
memory of the students. The design of the course must
align with the learner’s learning style.
If we want our students to pay attention to
the material, it should be developed as a coherent structure, and integrated
with existing knowledge. We should make sure that every media is relevant to
the learning outcome and not included just for its sake. I think some interactive graphics
within each section of the lesson should help learners balance intrinsic load
with germane events.
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