Designing Electronic Learning

Environments
 What is ID?
• Several definitions offered on p30
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It is the process of designing and

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developing instructional materials, using

scientific principles about how people
learn, to maximise the acquisition of skills,
knowledge and attitudes.
• Generally, the ADDIE model is used
The Addie-model
Analysis

Design

Development

Revise Implement

Evaluate
 Analysis
• Based on the collection of data
• Learning about learners
– Demographics, etc
– Language skills
– Typing skills
– Levels of motivation
– What do they know already
• Learning about curriculum and content
– Nature of the content
– Specifying the outcomes
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 Design phase
• Analysis outcomes
– Skills
– Knowledge
– Beliefs
– Attitudes
• Outcomes must be meaningful,
measurable and observable
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 Design phase (cont)

• Develop initial content ideas

– Brainstorming
– Elimination
• Preliminary programme description
– ID types of learning
– Choosing a methodology
– Factor decisions
– Sequence description
 Design phase (cont)
Storyboards
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• Scripts
– Audio
– Video
• Ongoing evaluation (formative and
summative)
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 Development

• Select a delivery environment and

development tool
• Make use of templates
• Steps
– Project management plan
– Prepare text components
– Authoring or coding
– Production of graphics, audio and video
– Assembling the pieces
– Prepare support materials
 Implementation and evaluation
• Alpha testing
– Done by design + development team
– Use evaluation forms and style manual
(shows eg. Adverts hv same color prescribd b no of RGB
value

• Beta testing
– Select learners, explain procedure
– (hw works, where to make corrections

– Determine prior knowledge

– Observation, interviewing, assess
• Revision to fix all mistakes b4 givn to da world
 Effective design principles
• Motivation
– External vs internal
– State benefits if u --------- you will
– Invoke curiosity to interest
– Pre-testing make 5 or more challengin question
– Challenge learners
– Increase difficulty gradually
• Keep diff’s in learners in mind
– Learning styles mind maps, pictures summaries
– Offer choices: how, pace
– Simplify learning activities
 Effective design principles
(cont)
• Emphasise important content
– Focus attention
– Avoid distractions like animations
– Consistency color of the backgrounds, don’t mix font too much, same bullets ,
layout

• Practice learning ask thm to d something

• Require thinking activities
• Build associations
• Consider limitations in perception and
memory human allow 7 visual

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 Secrets of user-interface design
• Keep context clear
– Title pages
– Introduce the subject
– “where-am-I?” cues
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– Keep interaction simple keep design simple

– What is a user interface?
– User frustrations
• Consistency in design