SED 671 - Designing Computer-Based Instructional Materials
Catalog Description - Development of instructional materials using high-level authoring systems as a programming environment. Investigations on research findings in human perception, communication, learning theory, and software development.
- Course Requirements & Grading
- Weekly Activities & Assignments
- Bibliography -Readings on learning theory, design principles, and CSCL
- In-class project - Practice files to learn technology & design concepts
- Norm Herr- Professor
- Student Photos | Websites
- SED 671 Wiki - Collaborative class notes & documentation
- Sierra Nevada Website | Wiki - source for practice files and class projects
- QuickWrite - Enter comments here as prompted
- Elluminate
- Daily Agendas
Theory
- Learning Theory - The study of cognitive, psychological, emotional, and environmental factors that influence the acquisition, enhancement of knowledge and skills.
- Human Factors Science- The science of understanding the properties of human capabilities
- Design Principles - Principles are concepts used to organize or arrange the structural elements of educational software.
Practice
- Website development
- Collaborative websites, wikis
- Collaborative docs, maps, drawings, data management, presentations, etc.
- Dreamweaver - Professional website development tool
- Movie-making
- I-Movie - Home movie editing software
- Final Cut - Professional movie editing software
- Online movie editing applications
- Graphic Design & Management
- PhotoShop - Professional image editing
- Fireworks - Streamlined bitmap and vector graphics editor primarily for website design
- Illustrator - Vector graphics editor
- Media Management
- Bridge - media manager that makes it easy to organize, browse, locate, and view creative assets
- iPhoto - Photo management and editing
- Picasa - application for organizing and editing digital photos
- ITunes - digital media organizer for music and video files
- Sound Editing
- Soundbooth -Digital audio editor
- GarageBand - Digital audio editor
- Animation / Interactive Simulations
- Flash - Multimedia platform used to add animation, video, and interactivity to Web pages
- OpenOffice Impress - Open source animation and presentation software