What have you learned about analyzing learning task and objectives? How can you plan to apply this new information (new to some of you who have not taken an instructional design course) to your design project?
Identifying a need should be carefully considered before jumping into the design process. You have to consider your learner and the learner’s needs. When delivering instructional content you have to make a task analysis for every aspect that you provide instruction for. When considering instructional objectives I found I approached this task by creating objectives for my site rather than objectives for the learner or VLC member. I am struggling with this a bit as my site is designed primarily as a place for members to collaborate and provide the learning experiences for each other. I have expanded on my objectives to have both 1) site or project objectives and then 2 ) individual learner objectives.
Given the learning objectives/tasks you have identified, what instructional strategies or activities you have identified from Bonk and Zhang’s book are useful for your target community members (or learners) to achieve their goals/objectives? The VLC that I have proposed is designed as to facilitate collaboration between community college instructors on how to use technology in the classroom. I have objectives for the VLC as a whole and objectives for the learners. The objectives for the site are:
- Stimulate discussion about the uses, needs, and experiences of web 2.0 tools and applications in the classroom.
- Provide a platform for members to share successful experiences with web 2.0 tools with CoP members.
- Experience web 2.0 tools in a manner that will facilitate the construction of sound learning activities.
- Develop a network of instructors and IT staff that can serve as resource for each other.
The members for the learners are:
- Discuss strategies for using Web 2.0 technology to enhance learning in the classroom.
- Identify strengths, and weaknesses of technology tools available for teaching.
- Identify instructional needs that might be met through web 2.0 technologies.
- Share with others, examples of instructional uses of web 2.0 technologies.
FAQ and Course Announcement Feedback Navigational structure is going to be very important in this community. p. 36 and 37. (Read)
Online Discussion Forums and Group Discussion Discourse between members will be a key component of this community. p. 86 and 87. (Reflect)
Virtual Tours Created by members to showcase successful learning activities developed with Web 2.0 tools. (Display)
Course Resource Wiki Site Members work together to develop are a member repository of web 2.0 tools. p. 218-19. (Do)
Jennifer, Is your VLC going to be set up similiar to that in "Tapped In" or math forum? In which the instructors are mainly there to collaborate and draw from each other's experience but they have class with students if they wanted?
ReplyDeleteJennifer, you have a nice instructional topic. It is going to be great that learners will practice using wiki, which is a Web 2.0 tool, as they learn the benefits of Web 2.0 tools. This is going to be a hands-on practice for them! Which wiki site do you plan to use? PB Works is a very nice wiki site. The link that share has also great tools that you might use in your project: http://www.brandon-hall.com/workplacelearningtoday/?p=9692
ReplyDeleteI have struggled with letting go of the traditional mindset of classroom. I know that goals and objectives are important for communities to stay dynamic, but it is hard to plan for every type of learner that exists.
ReplyDeleteI use task analysis in my classroom to identify learning needs, but I think it will be harder to incorporate this into a virtual, online, learning community. I think the individual learning tasks will have to be broken down into manageable pieces so that learners of all abilities will be able to be productive members of the community.
It will be interesting to see how everyone handles that particular aspect when designing their online communities.
Exactly - I am glad that you saw that "1) site or project objectives and then 2 ) individual learner objectives" were different. A lot of times it was hard to explain this concept to many students who are new to ID.
ReplyDeletebut what were your site objectives, and what were the individual learner objectives? I believe these will be answered in your design document.